Example sentences of "was known [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 2 | Bonnet was known to be opposed to the government 's plans to restructure the army . |
| 3 | Manchuria was known to be rich in raw materials , notably coal and iron ore , and capable of supporting a far larger population than dwelt there at the time . |
| 4 | Elizabeth was known to be alive in 1851 , aged about eighty . |
| 5 | He schemed to be proclaimed Emperor , but as long as Menelik was known to be alive this was impossible . |
| 6 | Detectives said she was known to be upset over personal problems and ex-pressed serious concern for her safety . |
| 7 | Detectives in Colchester expressed concern for Lisa 's safety following her disappearance and revealed that she was known to be upset over personal problems . |
| 8 | Patients with ARF were subdivided according to whether their duration of renal failure was known to be greater than or less than 10 days . |
| 9 | HER contacts book was known to be extensive , but who would have thought Cynthia Payne 's network stretched to Austin , Texas . |
| 10 | One kind of nucleic acid , DNA or deoxyribosenucleic acid , was known to be present in chromosomes , and hardly anywhere else . |
| 11 | She was known to be one of the little ones who had filled in their colouring books irreverently , making our Lord 's beard purple , or even green , largely , to be sure , because she never bothered to get hold of the best crayons first . |
| 12 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 13 | A meeting held on Sept. 4 in Santo Domingo , the capital of the Dominican Republic , between Bazin and President Joaquín Balaguer ( who was known to be eager to mediate a solution to the Haitian crisis ) , was also attended by the US ambassador to the Dominican Republic , Robert Pastorino . |
| 14 | The demand for electricity was thus being artificially boosted : the price was known to be sufficient only to meet the historic average costs of supply , not the costs which in future would have to be paid if the demand were met . |
| 15 | Later in its life , the same theory was known to be inconsistent with the details of the orbit of the planet Mercury , although scientists did not abandon the theory for that reason . |
| 16 | Chamberlain 's Reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time , and although the scale of unfit housing was known to be severe , policies for effective remedies were shelved . |
| 17 | Various areas of reform were on the agenda ; Lini , himself an Anglican priest , was known to be concerned at the proliferation of fundamentalist sects and cults in the country . |
| 18 | On Oct. 29 , however , Kim declared that he would not enter the contest , leading to speculation that he had bowed to pressure from Roh , whose administration had worked closely with Daewoo and who was known to be concerned that Kim 's intervention could split the conservative vote and thereby allow Kim Dae Jung to win the election . |
| 19 | His constitutional plan had been to secure the election of his son , the young Frederick , as king , but as soon as the emperor was known to be dead the wisdom of upholding the election of so young an heir was questioned . |
| 20 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 21 | Richard Miles , who was 29 , was known to be worried days before his body was found in the garden of the family home near Stonehouse in Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | He said she was known to be wanton and had become pregnant after having sex with numerous teenage boys . |
| 23 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 24 | He was known to be interested in Victorian architecture . |
| 25 | Reportedly stung by media criticism that he had appointed a mediocre Cabinet , Franco personally contacted PMDB leader Orestes Quércia , the former governor of the state of Sao Paulo who was known to be wary of involvement in the interim government in case it affected his chances in the 1994 presidential elections . |
| 26 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |
| 27 | During March and April 1991 Denmark came under pressure from France to join the WEU , but while Poul Schlüter , the Prime Minister of a minority coalition , was known to be sympathetic to the idea , it was equally apparent that the largest party in parliament , the Social Democrats , would effectively rule out such a move . |
| 28 | In Malaysia , where anti-Japanese sentiment was known to be stronger , the Emperor had a short meeting on Sept. 30 with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed , and another with Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah , the reigning monarch , who asked Japan to take the lead in forming a new economic community of East Asian countries . |
| 29 | In calculating the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for El , a few pupils used knowledge gained from playing darts : treble 17 was known to be 51 and 51p doubled was 102 , making one 17p too many . |
| 30 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |