Example sentences of "[is] known by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how important it is , a club 's known by the quality of its fourth side . |
| 2 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 3 | The ‘ observer as participant ’ is known by the group under study to be an observer but has been accepted , temporarily , by the group and allowed temporary membership to enable him to carry out the research . |
| 4 | This is known by the cognoscenti as the ‘ Michael Howard benefit match ’ . |
| 5 | In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot . |
| 6 | This dispute is known by the Japanese as the ‘ Northern Territories problem ’ . |
| 7 | Such large assemblages of young in the charge of only a few adults is known by the French word for a nursery — a creche . |