Example sentences of "they [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were known as the Reformers , and later as the Puritans . |
| 2 | They were known as teddy boys or teds . |
| 3 | Probably no better than they should be , thieving and robbing at will , they were known as the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ ; Rannoch can be a misty place and the Macgregors would appear , take your goods and chattels , and anything else not nailed down , then disappear again , into the mists of Rannoch Moor where they could never be found . |
| 4 | Collectively they were known as Sen . |
| 5 | They were known as Wets , and the Wets claimed that Prohibition would result in drinkers switching from drink to drugs . |
| 6 | They were known as ‘ the club ’ . ’ |
| 7 | They were known as the Garonnais de plaine and the Garonnais de côteau , respectively , until 1922 when the Quercy , which had Limousin blood at the turn of the century , became separate . |
| 8 | On the Isle of Man they were known as Hogmen and tended to be far more aggressive , kidnapping women and children and setting fire to barns . |
| 9 | It is significant that they were known as Tarianas , a title closely resembling that given to the tribes of Turania in Turkistan who were associated with the Serpent , the Taryans . |
| 10 | Lloyd Bridges , who knew Bogie , told me , ‘ They were known as ‘ The Battling Bogarts ’ . |
| 11 | They were known as The Fancy — that is those who fancied that particular activity . |
| 12 | They were known as ‘ bee grenades ’ , and just one of them could disperse a big group of enemies , who would flee leaving their modern weapons behind . |
| 13 | The warrior monks , they were known as . |
| 14 | They were known as the Winant Volunteers , after John Winant , the US Ambassador to Britain during the Second World War . |
| 15 | Its main interest lay in the reconstruction of the historical evolution of the Indo-European languages which , perhaps because in Germany they were known as ‘ Indo-German ’ , attracted national , if not nationalist , attention in that country . |
| 16 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 17 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 18 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |
| 19 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 20 | The fact that he does not explain anything about them probably means that they were known to his audience . |
| 21 | Mono 's were first introduced to the European fishkeeper in 1908 , but they were known to Linneus as far back as 1758 . |
| 22 | Cases were counted if they were known to the indicator agencies in the one-year period from 1 July 1984 to 30 June 1985 . |
| 23 | Law 's claims were therefore substantial , but they were known to few outside parliament , Glasgow and Manchester . |
| 24 | ‘ Sailors were the élite , ’ Daniel Farson observes ; ‘ guardsmen were less popular because they were known to be out for the money . ’ |
| 25 | They were known to the Romans , but no one afterwards used them until the Dover Road was given mile-marks in 1663 . |
| 26 | Most employers spoken to made clear that , were permanent vacancies to arise , temporary workers would be in the best position to compete for them since they were known to the organisation . |
| 27 | They were known to be present in all good mines — indeed their absence was not a good omen . |
| 28 | There was speculation that Soviet concern could extend to the possibility of missile attacks launched from any of the republics they were known to be located . |
| 29 | They were known to several medieval writers , including the mid-twelfth century Norman bishop and controversialist , Arnulf of Lisieux . |
| 30 | I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ? |