Example sentences of "were [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | So completely was it abandoned that with the passage of time , and the weathering away of what little remained of it , its location was forgotten , although the facts of its existence and its fate were widely known . |
| 2 | Because of the prevailing financial circumstances , the DES did not officially publish the Report until the end of 1977 , though inevitably its contents were widely known to interested parties by then . |
| 3 | Because many of these houses were little known , or stood unseen at the end of long drives , there was no pressure to repair them . |
| 4 | In several advertisements by dealers I have noticed the following genera , which I have always thought were mostly known as houseplants : |
| 5 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 6 | Because of their favourable prognosis , they were long known as pseudolymphomas , however , immunohistochemical methods have now shown that most of these tumours are monoclongla B cell proliferations . |
| 7 | Forty years later , when viruses were better known and several people had attributed viral origins to some tumours and perhaps leukaemia , the paper was rediscovered . |
| 8 | Force Gill has two fine waterfalls which would earn an admiring patronage if they were better known . |
| 9 | I remain convinced to this day that the Caplans of South Portland Street , were better known than the Barretts of Wimpole Street . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fearing criticism if their bulk supply costs were better known ( unsustainable assertions on off-peak generating costs had been made to the Ministry ) , they felt that the less guidance they got in tariff making from the Authority 's bulk supply tariff the better . |
| 12 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | … for all those unfortunate and aged people the institution of the poor law did provide some genuine relief , especially in small communities where the poor were personally known and acknowledged to have a legitimate claim on the assistance of their neighbours . |
| 15 | By then they were generally known simply as the Dutch breed and were found only on the east coast of England . |
| 16 | is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which would if it were generally known to them be likely to materially affect the price of those securities . |
| 17 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 18 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 19 | They were thus known by the name of ‘ enabling schemes ’ . |
| 20 | By this June — when the revelations in Andrew Morton 's book , Diana : Her True Story , were finally known — the Queen personally intervened , talking to Camilla and her husband at Ascot . |
| 21 | Both of them were already known for silences . |
| 22 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 23 | Perhaps significantly , the Commission said nothing about more natural and lowland woodlands such as the New Forest or Epping Forest , where some pollution effects ( on lichens ) were already known . |
| 24 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 25 | An account of anaphoric processing based on the idea that there are two broad classes of anaphoric expression was suggested by Sag and Hankamer ( 1984 ) , whose ideas were already known to , and tentatively endorsed by , Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) in his most complete account of the mental models framework . |
| 26 | The two women closest in the world to Charles were already known to be the Queen and Camilla , whom Charles had readily confirmed was a trusted friend . |
| 27 | For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . |
| 28 | I would have thought you were already known there , anyway . ’ |
| 29 | The two partners , so different in character that they were respectively known by their employees as ‘ Oil ’ ( Bridge ) and ‘ Vinegar ’ , worked tirelessly to place the business at the forefront of their trade . |
| 30 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |