Example sentences of "[pers pn] be well known in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets . |
| 2 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 3 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 4 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |
| 5 | It is well known in Shetland that the best of the fishing skippers of old had the ability to sense the correct course to steer in fog or darkness , by invoking a sort of ‘ sixth sense ’ , and that it was n't long after the invention of the compass before that ability faded and was lost for ever . |
| 6 | It is well known in linguistics , for example , that languages vary in the way they encode perceptual phenomena such as colour ; and this variation is probably greater still in the conceptualization of abstract and cultural phenomena . |
| 7 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 8 | It was well known in college that , barring some accident , Mr de Chavigny would take a First in his PPE Finals . |
| 9 | He was well known in Hochhauser and several times they were stopped and she was introduced to yet another friend , another business or civic colleague . |