Example sentences of "[was/were] well know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 2 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 4 | Some pioneers ( Ron James was a famous example ) were well known for their peerless protection ability . |
| 5 | A number of other young men in the Town Boys group were well known for their ability to drink impossible-sounding quantities of beer . |
| 6 | Thus Aquitaine remained a far-off , unknown country and its inhabitants were well known for their fickleness and treacherousness . |
| 7 | The contents of the jiffy bag were n't important but they were genuine , and the solicitors were well known for handling City problems . |
| 8 | They were well known at the Jade Cockatoo , for the seniors at Pinehurst were allowed to have tea in the town now and then . |
| 9 | The official figures showed the party membership to be around 650,000 ; the real figures were well known to be far below that number , possibly below 300,000 , with an undue proportion being middle-class activists who had taken over old and decaying working-class parties or management committees . |
| 10 | Although the inland wonders of the North American continent were well known to hunters and fishermen , it was the railroad which brought areas of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada within reach of people of more moderate means . |
| 11 | The main features were well known to most travellers , but Green wanted them to discover the lesser known tarns , valleys and fells of his beloved Lake District . |
| 12 | The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor , who saw them regularly in the winter months . |
| 13 | The words used in the Act of Settlement , ‘ and the heirs of her body ’ were well known to the common law and had a definite meaning . |
| 14 | Earlier , in a small , strongly aristocratic society , where all those likely to resort to legal process were well known to their fellows , reliance on verbal contract before witnesses had proved a sound policy , allowing for future elasticity of interpretation within clearly-defined limits . |
| 15 | Conditions at sea were well known to be squalid and comfortless , wages beggarly , food too often no more than salt beef and weevilly biscuit , while officers were often no more than petty tyrants . |
| 16 | All sorts of additional class niceties were well known to travellers , even if they were not hallowed by signposts . |
| 17 | Their needs were well known to her . |
| 18 | Refractory pouchitis — We selected 24 cases that were well known to their gastroenterologists and that fit the clinical , endoscopical , and pathological criteria for RP as adopted at an International Workshop on Pouchitis in London in January 1989 , including clinical symptoms ( bloody diarrhoea , malaise , or weight loss , or all three ) ; resistance to treatment with antibiotics and steroids ; and endoscopical features ( serpiginous ulcerations , cobblestone mucosa , or ileitis proximal to the reservoir , or all three ) . |
| 19 | Anna 's relations with Vronsky , however , were well known to everybody around them . |
| 20 | Substances that blocked the actions of histamine were discovered from the late 1930s onwards , and by the end of the 1940s were well known as ‘ antihistamines ’ . |
| 21 | The Kingman Committee included traditionalists of an older generation such as Peter Levi , Professor of Poetry at Oxford , and Patrick Kavanagh , a poet whose conservative views were well known from his regular column in the Spectator . |
| 22 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 23 | Her reservations about the senior civil service as a whole were well known in advance . |
| 24 | Napoleon III 's objections to Montpensier were well known in European diplomatic circles and so the candidature was unlikely to find favour with the other governments , as was indeed the case — with one exception . |
| 25 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |
| 26 | Marsh Farm was built in the late 19th century by James Formby , the Formby family were well known in Halling during the whole of the 19th century through their connection with the cement industry and were also active members like the Linghams in village life . |
| 27 | ‘ Both Winston and Billy were part of the fly-fishing team for Ireland and were well known in both fishing and other sporting circles . |
| 28 | Key figures in the early evolution of the corporations included Nigel Broackes , Chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ) , and Basil Bean , Chief Executive of the Merseyside Development Corporation ( MDC ) , who were well known within City and market institutions . |
| 29 | Arthur Wilson was better known to thousands , perhaps millions , of his countrymen in Britain and Ireland as ‘ Faed ’ , the pen-name by which he contributed hundreds of articles on cycling to cycling magazines , including his own , and published books on the sport . |
| 30 | ‘ Sting ’ , as Sumner was better known to the record-buying public , had been signed to Virgin music publishing as a complete unknown in 1976 . |