Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the law of the Church was not declared or made in councils but consisted of the statements or utterances of the popes which were known as decretals ( later encyclicals ) . |
| 2 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 3 | Yet it was undeniable that the Conservative political pressure to extend rural electrification had led to a diversion of scarce capital resources into investments which were known to be unremunerative and in fact turned out to be so . |
| 4 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 5 | No indeed , this is in fact er about the twelfth meeting in a series , the first meeting was in 1973 , where 75 scientists came together to deliberate about 50 genes which were known at that time . |
| 6 | Reformers often worked through sympathetic religious networks in the localities , the names of members of which were known from earlier years ; more important , petitions came increasingly from congregations and denominational organisations of an aroused dissent . |
| 7 | He saw this as a possible origin of the nymphs of the elements which were known in ancient times — the naiads in waterfalls , springs and streams , dryads in trees and woods , oreads in mountains and deserts , and nereids in the sea . |
| 8 | They have stood here since the seventeenth century , and were originally in front of the Council House which was known as the Tolzey . |
| 9 | We also had a modern electric one which ran off the mains and which was known as ‘ The Pay Cooker ’ , whose use was frowned upon except in cases of drought and when Nigel was making bread , for which the free oven did n't , to be honest , get quite hot enough . |
| 10 | This procedure , which was known as silencing , was referred to in a case in 1741 , Hughes v. Science ( 1741 ) 2 Atk. 173 , and was not finally repealed as spent or unnecessary till 1948 : Statute Law Revision Act 1948 , section 1 , Schedule 1 . |
| 11 | The last-named gave to the Hospitallers land in Stalisfield and Oare close to Faversham in Kent ; and a descendant of the same name held a manor at Ospring , which was known as Cade 's manor as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | This valley was watered by the river Froom , and produced huge amounts of milk and butter , more even than Tess 's Vale of Blackmoor , which was known as the Vale of Little Dairies . |
| 13 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 14 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |
| 15 | That which was known to be disliked — for example , the voice — was changed to one which was softer and not shrill . |
| 16 | When Jeremiah fled to Egypt he went to Tahpanhes ( 43.7 ; 44.1 ) which was known to the Greek world under the name of Daphne and was probably already garrisoned by Greek mercenaries , as it certainly was a little later under King Amasis ( 570–526 ) . |
| 17 | The Plaintiff relies on proprietary estoppel the principle of which , in its broadest form , may be stated as follows ; where one person , A , has acted to his detriment on the faith of a belief , which was known to and encouraged by another person , B , that he either has or is going to be given a right in or over B 's property , B can not insist on his strict legal rights if to do so would be inconsistent with A 's belief . |
| 18 | Reports said that the Dec. 6 attack on the mosque was effectively abetted by the guards , some 200 paramilitary troops of the state-controlled Provincial Armed Constabulary ( PAC ) which was known for its pro-Hindu leanings ; they had allegedly stood aside and allowed militants to demolish the mosque 's structure . |
| 19 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 20 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 21 | Labour was attempting to control what were known as the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 22 | He was one of what were known as ‘ Daphne 's hoofers ’ . |
| 23 | This brings us to the second general point : that women were not working in what were known as " skilled " occupations . |
| 24 | Scarman was critical of some of the methods employed by police forces , especially the use of special patrol groups in ‘ saturation swamp 81 ’ which involved considerable police presence and the operation of what were known as the ‘ sus laws ’ under which people can be stopped and searched simply on suspicion of misdemeanours . |
| 25 | Because he wanted a stronger and healthier nation , for much the same reason as Hitler did , on the other side of the Alps — to turn the men into warriors and the women into the mothers of warriors — he started what were known as colonie marine e montane , to which needy children were sent on holiday . |
| 26 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 27 | Acetylcholine was identified as a transmitter in the 1920s and 1930s , and what was known of its biology and chemistry guided the search for new drugs in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 28 | In the eighteenth century what was known of the practices of Little Gidding appealed to William Law . |
| 29 | What was known about Pound 's association with Eliot did Pound 's reputation no good at all . |
| 30 | The antihistamines , which became well known late in the 1940s ( see Chapter 12 ) , turned out to have several properties which would not have been predicted from what was known about histamine . |