Example sentences of "[vb past] known as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danish invasion took place in A.D. 787 , and one Danish ruler , called Egbert , succeeded as King of Wessex , in A.D. 802 ; becoming overlord of Cornwall and Devonshire in 815 ; then King of Kent in 825 , and became known as King of the English , in 829 . |
| 2 | During the first part of the 20th century , because of its proximity to Nailsworth Station , it became known as Station Mill , although it was still referred to locally by its old name . |
| 3 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 4 | The main national network , which became known as Idhaa ya Kiswahili ( ‘ The Swahili Service ’ ) , had as one of its main aims ‘ informing and educating public opinion ’ . |
| 5 | There was Florey 's original material , which became known as Penicillin-I or Penicillin-F ( for Florey ) ; Penicillin-II or Penicillin-G ( because G came after F ) from the Squibb Laboratories ; Penicillin-III or Penicillin-X from the laboratories at Peoria ; and Penicillin-IV or Penicillin-K from the Abbot Laboratories . |
| 6 | I briefly became known as Ozone Amis . |
| 7 | He was appointed controller of the printing business of Oxford University Press in 1883 : the position later became known as printer to the university . |
| 8 | For a time , Freames was used for the manufacture of chemicals and later became known as Crystal Fountain Mill , then for the production of shoddy and mattress stuffing up to at least the Second World War . |
| 9 | The mill later became known as Garden Mill . |
| 10 | FLORENCE , the city state of Michelangelo and Leonardo , also nurtured a phenomenon that was equally lasting : the system of production and trade that in a more developed form became known as capitalism . |
| 11 | In 1983 it became known as CARE ( Christian Action Research and Education ) . |
| 12 | Then it spread to Australia , where it became known as kangaroo paw ! |
| 13 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 14 | This process , which became known as impeachment , seems to have arisen by accident when de la Mare declared that he and his colleagues would maintain their charges in common . |