Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | So completely was it abandoned that with the passage of time , and the weathering away of what little remained of it , its location was forgotten , although the facts of its existence and its fate were widely known . |
| 2 | Because of the prevailing financial circumstances , the DES did not officially publish the Report until the end of 1977 , though inevitably its contents were widely known to interested parties by then . |
| 3 | Because many of these houses were little known , or stood unseen at the end of long drives , there was no pressure to repair them . |
| 4 | In several advertisements by dealers I have noticed the following genera , which I have always thought were mostly known as houseplants : |
| 5 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 6 | Because of their favourable prognosis , they were long known as pseudolymphomas , however , immunohistochemical methods have now shown that most of these tumours are monoclongla B cell proliferations . |
| 7 | Forty years later , when viruses were better known and several people had attributed viral origins to some tumours and perhaps leukaemia , the paper was rediscovered . |
| 8 | Force Gill has two fine waterfalls which would earn an admiring patronage if they were better known . |
| 9 | I remain convinced to this day that the Caplans of South Portland Street , were better known than the Barretts of Wimpole Street . |
| 10 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 11 | Fearing criticism if their bulk supply costs were better known ( unsustainable assertions on off-peak generating costs had been made to the Ministry ) , they felt that the less guidance they got in tariff making from the Authority 's bulk supply tariff the better . |
| 12 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |
| 13 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | … for all those unfortunate and aged people the institution of the poor law did provide some genuine relief , especially in small communities where the poor were personally known and acknowledged to have a legitimate claim on the assistance of their neighbours . |
| 15 | By then they were generally known simply as the Dutch breed and were found only on the east coast of England . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Panamanian military casualties were not known . |
| 20 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 21 | In the later interviews it is only when grandparents were not known directly that there is no significant memory of them , and we can reasonably assume that this was also the commonest reason for lack of memory in the first set . |
| 22 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 23 | Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together . |
| 24 | In 1990 , 11 per cent of female homicide victims were not known to their attackers , and experts believe these figures will increase . |
| 25 | God 's invasion plans and strategies of salvation were not known to them . |
| 26 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 27 | A , b , This classification assumes that the fossil groups are related to one or other of the Recent agnathans ( galeaspids were not known at this time ) . |
| 28 | Users in this group were not known to be taking any drug other than cannabis ( though , like any drug user , they may have taken other drugs without official knowledge of this ) . |
| 29 | We consulted the acknowledged experts in the field , many of whom were not known to the general public ; and for the most part we did little more than synthesise their conclusions in a readily digestible fashion . |
| 30 | The ends for which the seeds , the natural causes of things , acted were not known to themselves but to God alone . |