Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most godly men , who were known as ‘ Puritans ’ were drawn to support parliament , whilst the more profane were drawn to the King 's side . |
| 2 | There were twenty-four houses at Eton , each with about forty-five boys who were known as Oppidans and were distinct from the seventy Scholars who lived apart in College . |
| 3 | McNeile 's house , like the others , was run by four or five boys who were known as " the Library " — the equivalent of house prefects . |
| 4 | Li Xiannian , President of China between 1983 and 1988 , and one of a group of aged CCP leaders — including Deng — who were known as " the eight immortals " , died on June 21 , aged 83 . |
| 5 | The choice of Aquitaine is then linked variously to the ability of the people of that part of Gaul to pay , the possibility that they may have backed the wrong side in the recent usurpations against the emperor Honorius , and the threat from separatist groups north of the Loire , who were known as Bacaudae . |
| 6 | In the inquiries into the deaths of children like Maria Colwell , Jasmine Beckford and Kimberley Carlile ( DHSS , 1982 ; Blom-Cooper , 1986 , 1987 ) the observation has been repeatedly made that children who were known to be ‘ at risk ’ were failed by those given the statutory duty to protect them , because of poor communication , mistakes about knowing who was ( or was not ) responsible for undertaking particular tasks , and , it has to be admitted , professional rivalries and jealousies . |
| 7 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 8 | That way , you see , we could n't collude ( assuming we wished to ) in passing through people who were known to us . |
| 9 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 10 | Its seven years since the American band Dr Hook split up : now the lead singer from the group who were known for their naked encores is back on the road . |