Example sentences of "[was/were] known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were known of old to Knights , and hungry Squires . |
| 2 | No indeed , this is in fact er about the twelfth meeting in a series , the first meeting was in 1973 , where 75 scientists came together to deliberate about 50 genes which were known at that time . |
| 3 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 4 | This highlights another paradox of Soviet experience — the fact that the main elements of the growing economic crisis were known to Soviet officials and Western specialists long before they became part of the public political agenda on either side of the iron curtain . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | No sir , it , I could n't remember but erm I 'm not surprised er between I was able to ascertain that the two were known to each other . |
| 7 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 8 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 9 | Acidified lakes and rivers were known to British scientists from the 1970s . |
| 10 | Seven hundred and sixty individual opioid users were known to these five agencies in 1985–6 , compared with 1,135 in 1984–5 ( see Table 3.3 ) . |
| 11 | They were known to several medieval writers , including the mid-twelfth century Norman bishop and controversialist , Arnulf of Lisieux . |
| 12 | Law 's claims were therefore substantial , but they were known to few outside parliament , Glasgow and Manchester . |
| 13 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 14 | These were known as second phase schools . |
| 15 | These estates were known as executory devises . |
| 16 | Those who accepted Communion from Methodist preachers were known as Primitive Methodists . |
| 17 | The black boys were known as Rude Boys or Rudies . |
| 18 | Like Dorothy , Helen and Edward used swabs of mouldering grey stockinette ; they festered by the sink and were known as dead rabbits . |
| 19 | The expenses of this were known as coat-and-conduct money , part of which was reimbursed by the Crown but most of which was borne by the counties . |
| 20 | But the welfare of home students , as they were known after 1889 , was her particular concern ; in 1894 she was appointed by the AEW as their principal , a post which she held on a voluntary basis until 1921 . |
| 21 | No suitable drugs for this purpose were known before 1950 , and the exact identity of the transmitter itself presented difficulties . |
| 22 | Reformers often worked through sympathetic religious networks in the localities , the names of members of which were known from earlier years ; more important , petitions came increasingly from congregations and denominational organisations of an aroused dissent . |
| 23 | He saw this as a possible origin of the nymphs of the elements which were known in ancient times — the naiads in waterfalls , springs and streams , dryads in trees and woods , oreads in mountains and deserts , and nereids in the sea . |
| 24 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 25 | At the time the analysts and the client were somewhat concerned that it was not practicable to implement fully either of the FAOR technical solutions , as expectations had been raised about the final outcome before the implications of these solutions were known in any detail . |
| 26 | Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership . |
| 27 | Simone 's eyes were sparkling , and Alyssia said frigidly , ‘ I had no idea you were known in this part of the world . ’ |
| 28 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 29 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 30 | November 1697 , will always be associated with Chiswick , although he was constantly referred to , in his day , as ‘ Mr. Hogarth of Leicester Fields ’ — the name by which Leicester Square was known at that time — as that was his business centre and where he worked before he married . |