Example sentences of "what [was/were] [adv] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change erodes the distinction between university and what were previously known as ‘ public sector ’ institutions , and may blur what Burgess ( 1977 , pp. 2332 ) has argued is a contrast between the ‘ autonomous ’ ( university ) and ‘ service ’ ( polytechnic/ college ) traditions . |
| 2 | Other highly critical reports were subsequently published following inquiries into conditions at what were then known as subnormality hospitals . |
| 3 | In a very real sense war was becoming an important supplementary source of livelihood , for which the nobility increasingly sold their services to the king in return for wages and promises of opportunities of obtaining what were euphemistically known as the ‘ advantages ’ of war : the profits of ransoms ; booty ; and grants of land seized from the conquered . |
| 4 | But excavations in 1969 in the East Gate area failed to add much to what was already known of the gate structure . |
| 5 | In discussing a different though related issue , Lacan observes that ‘ the latest developments in modern thought on language ’ are only a rediscovery of what was already known to Augustine , who ‘ orients his entire dialectic around these three poles , error , mistake , ambiguity of speech ’ . |
| 6 | These facts and figures added relatively little to what was already known in outline . |
| 7 | Hardly any thing could resist this accuracy at which I was much impressed , though a bit alarmed at Griffin himself , who sat around on a stool amid the most dreadful carnage and what was later known as flak in order to observe the behaviour and results of his phenomenal piece of artillery . |
| 8 | Simon , her husband , was dominated by her , what was colloquially known as a ‘ henpeck ’ . |
| 9 | In the case of larceny by a trick , as I explained earlier , the owner consents to hand over possession but he does not consent to transfer ownership of his property , unlike the victim of what was formerly known as false pretences , who does indeed consent to transfer his ownership . |
| 10 | The area of Kosovo ( which covers what was previously known as Kosovo and Metohija ) is an approximate square with a side of about 70 miles , equivalent to half the size of Wales . |
| 11 | Thus , ‘ mental illness ’ was seen as a label by which genuine human responses to oppressive social conditions were reduced to mental faults , requiring technical ( in this case medical ) solutions ; for a while the ‘ new deviance ’ attempted to incorporate writers as different as R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz from what was temporarily known as ‘ anti-psychiatry ’ . |
| 12 | The former Maesteg coach is best known for his work at what was once known as Cardiff College of Education whose former student include Lyn ‘ the Leap ’ Davies , Gareth Edwards and John Bevan and more recently , John Devereux and Tony Copsey . |
| 13 | It was clear that the sentencer would not have made the order if he had known what was now known by the court . |
| 14 | ‘ I TOLD you so ’ is the least edifying of attitudes between friends , but I did harangue the House of Commons for 55 minutes on 19 December on the ecological consequences of what was then known as the ‘ military option ’ . |
| 15 | Rather , there has been feeling of surprise at just how much energy the ideologists of the Soviet regime expended in the fight against what was then known as ‘ anti-Soviet ’ art . |
| 16 | In historically accurate terms these settled states had ceased to be colonies fourteen years before Howard 's death , but that probably did not much matter south and west of the Red River which forms the north-east boundary of what was then known as Tejas , or Tehas . |
| 17 | I 'd left my pension from the Navy , but I 'd gone into what was then known as the police , er familiarly dockyard police . |
| 18 | Er I remember too er there was some attempt made to stop a train , which er which was run er on what was then known as the Great Central Line , that runs through , that runs through Hucknall . |
| 19 | Something over 33 years ago , I mounted an exhibition in what was then known as the Shandwick Place Gallery , on various rural crafts that included spinning . |
| 20 | It is a sign of Marx 's and Engels 's intellectual courage that they put these laws to the test by seeing whether they accorded with what was then known about early cultures . |
| 21 | Another discovery he claimed was that of a cure for glanders : one horse had remained ‘ cured ’ for four years after treatment with what was popularly known as ‘ Sewell 's Blue Broth ’ — three ounces of copper sulphate in a quart of water . |
| 22 | But somehow the economy functioned , often inexplicably , under what was derisively known as the ‘ système D ’ ( a derivation from the verb ‘ se débrouiller ’ , meaning literally ‘ to muddle through ’ ) . |
| 23 | The idea will have been elaborated through contact with what was still known of the Trojan legend . |
| 24 | At SOE he was head of Section D. What was commonly known as the dirty tricks department . ’ |