Example sentences of "what [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 2 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 3 | Labour was attempting to control what were known as the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 4 | He was one of what were known as ‘ Daphne 's hoofers ’ . |
| 5 | This brings us to the second general point : that women were not working in what were known as " skilled " occupations . |
| 6 | Scarman was critical of some of the methods employed by police forces , especially the use of special patrol groups in ‘ saturation swamp 81 ’ which involved considerable police presence and the operation of what were known as the ‘ sus laws ’ under which people can be stopped and searched simply on suspicion of misdemeanours . |
| 7 | Because he wanted a stronger and healthier nation , for much the same reason as Hitler did , on the other side of the Alps — to turn the men into warriors and the women into the mothers of warriors — he started what were known as colonie marine e montane , to which needy children were sent on holiday . |
| 8 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 9 | Acetylcholine was identified as a transmitter in the 1920s and 1930s , and what was known of its biology and chemistry guided the search for new drugs in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 10 | In the eighteenth century what was known of the practices of Little Gidding appealed to William Law . |
| 11 | What was known about Pound 's association with Eliot did Pound 's reputation no good at all . |
| 12 | The antihistamines , which became well known late in the 1940s ( see Chapter 12 ) , turned out to have several properties which would not have been predicted from what was known about histamine . |
| 13 | I asked Fleischmann what was known about this and he laughed as he said ‘ Not enough ! ’ |
| 14 | They show not what was known about the event , but only some aspects of how it was talked about ’ . |
| 15 | For many , including myself , this meant looking at children 's early attempts at reading in the context of what was known about the strength of their urge to find meaning , about their acquisition of grammar and syntax , and about their language awareness . |
| 16 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 17 | By the fireplace , there was what was known as a ‘ Turkish corner ’ , protected by a screen , in which the Empress normally sat either to read or to talk informally with someone who had come to see her . |
| 18 | Roland was now employed , part-time , in what was known as Blackadder 's ‘ Ash Factory ’ ( why not Ashram ? , |
| 19 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 20 | From there they passed to a polishing room , and thence to what was known as No 3 position , where they were fitted to the actual coach . |
| 21 | Louise was what was known as an ‘ exchange student ’ ; at home in Nîmes she was training to be an English teacher and she was doing a year 's exchange as part of her course , teaching French conversation at the local grammar school . |
| 22 | It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ . |
| 23 | Built entirely of black glass , it marked the beginning of what was known as Death Row , a stretch of downtown First Avenue where most of the big funeral parlours had their offices . |
| 24 | These went into what was known as the ‘ junk box ’ . |
| 25 | Moreover , Whitechapel neighboured on to Spitalfields , whose centre housed what was known as the ‘ black stuff ’ industry , the manufacture of the rich and expensive silks and velvets reserved for the exclusive use of the funerary trade . |
| 26 | A pair of spotted woodpeckers nested in what was known as the Little Wood below the lake and when the nuts were ripe on the copper cob trees a nuthatch came up quite close to the house . |
| 27 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 28 | She was what was known as ‘ a bad lot ’ and several times later I saw her standing in alleyways , always with a different man . |
| 29 | TDS.3 began development of what was known as the Rotachute in 1941 . |
| 30 | The architects were exponents of what was known as Arts and Crafts Gothic and they produced a graceful stone-built church with a nave , 105 feet long , side aisles and a hexagonal chancel with five lancet windows . |