Example sentences of "[pron] was know as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was known as the old Edinburgh road . |
| 4 | During the coroner 's examination , he noted the ‘ constellation of keratoid scars ’ on the broken chest : mementoes of the time he was known as the Human Ashtray . |
| 5 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |
| 6 | I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort . |
| 7 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 8 | " At every Mercantile Marine Office there were what was known as the outdoor staff , or Board of Trade messengers . |
| 9 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 10 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 11 | A pair of spotted woodpeckers nested in what was known as the Little Wood below the lake and when the nuts were ripe on the copper cob trees a nuthatch came up quite close to the house . |