Example sentences of "it be known as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time .
2 Today , it is known as the Minoan civilization , after the legends about King Minos , Theseus and the Minotaur .
3 When the amount is one mole ( see chapter 4 ) the constant is designated R. It is known as the molar gas constant or simply the gas constant .
4 It is known as the fair-haired boy ; yellow paint still faintly visible on the hair was much more strongly apparent when it came out of the earth .
5 This is the figure mentioned as so resembling the copies of the Tyrannicides that it is known as the Kritian boy .
6 It is also happy in New Zealand and in the USA where , confusingly and misleadingly , it is known as the American White Park .
7 it was er now it was , now at the start of the new town er present East Kilbride a new town , it was known as a new town and it was just starting to build up .
8 As a result of the Oxford Conference of 1937 , J. H. Oldham established a group of Christian intellectuals with the purpose of discussing political and social problems within a Christian context — a more ambitious version of the Chandos Group ; it was known as the Moot , and among its members were Karl Mannheim , Middleton Murry , Alec Vidler as well as Eliot himself .
9 They had their work cut out in simply trying to provide defences against the incursions of cattle raiders from the North Tyne valley , over Bewcastle Waste , or through that tract of the western fringe so unsure of its ownership that it was known as the Debatable Land ; and their own people were themselves frequently as unruly as their enemies .
10 It was known as the old Edinburgh road .
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