Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large . |
| 5 | At that time it was officially known as the ‘ Poor Law Institution ’ , although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter 's Hospital for some years . |
| 6 | The race returned for on year in 1940 and was held over nine laps of a 100-mile circuit that took in Brescia-Cremona-Brescia and , while it was generally known as the Brescia Grand Prix , it still was accorded Mille Miglia status , unlike the 1939 event . |
| 7 | It was a Michaelmas Day or at least the old erm Quarter Day for paying rents and erm it was generally known in those days as muck spreading because erm it was usual time for erm , the farm workers to get ready for the winter ploughing . |
| 8 | Stoke area was chosen I suppose because my father worked on the railway and you either worked on the railway or if you lived over Stoke , it was well known for that . |
| 9 | It was well known amongst that elite of which he was a part that the Chairman detested news of crisis . |
| 10 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 11 | It was well known in college that , barring some accident , Mr de Chavigny would take a First in his PPE Finals . |
| 12 | The 48-year-old New Zealander did not apply for the job in so many words , but it was well known in the British territory 's rugby circles that he was available , if asked . |
| 13 | It was well known among his colleagues that William Bird 's avuncular manner tended to pay dividends where ladies were concerned ; he seldom went short of ample refreshments during the pursuit of justice . |
| 14 | Hippocrates was aware of this energy , which he called ‘ Vis Medicatrix Naturae ’ ( The Healing Power of Nature ) , and it was also known to the medieval alchemists as ‘ munia ’ — the Vital Fluid . |
| 15 | It was also known as , which has a second meaning , ‘ an irritable person ’ . |
| 16 | It was already known from the APU results that the use of terms such as " area " and " perimeter " , especially the former , made questions harder than when explanatory phrases were substituted . |
| 17 | Following the charity event of last year The Rainforest Ball ( which was attended by so many of the titled upper classes that it was unofficially known as Toff Aid ) , attention is now focused on the Altamura Forest , Italy , the proposed site of a hydroelectric dam . |
| 18 | In the pre-Gockley era , the HGO never attained the glamour of its sister companies in Dallas and San Antonio ; it was best known for presenting young stars on the rise ( Plácido Domingo was a regular in the 1960s ) and legendary performers at the end of their careers ( Inge Borkh and Richard Tucker , among others ) , in very traditional productions of the core repertory ) . |
| 19 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 20 | The latter action was exclusively unofficial , and repudiated by the union , but it was widely known to be organised in secret by a small group of shop stewards . |
| 21 | It was variously known as ‘ The Cage ’ or ‘ The Goldfish Bowl ’ , on account of its having windows all round from waist height to the ceiling . |
| 22 | It was popularly known as the ‘ brown bill ’ because such improvised weapons were often rusty . |
| 23 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 24 | Why they were called potherbs , do n't ask me , but it was always known as potherbs . |
| 25 | It was never known as Street in those days , it was called the Street . |
| 26 | For a short while it was apparently known as ‘ godnose ’ . |
| 27 | Until recently it was only known from an early black and white photograph . |