Example sentences of "[pers pn] be know [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm known as The Great Escaper . |
| 2 | ‘ I was sacked because I was known to the local RUC as an ex-republican prisoner , ’ he said from Portlaoise Prison . |
| 3 | They are known as the Super Mario Brothers . |
| 4 | They are known as the five ancestors , and it is hinted that they were the original founders of the present-day Triad secret societies . |
| 5 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 6 | They were known as the Winant Volunteers , after John Winant , the US Ambassador to Britain during the Second World War . |
| 7 | How they were used is not generally agreed upon , for , whilst the obverse of some of these cards — ‘ shopkeepers ' bills ’ as they were known by the eighteenth-century tradesmen — were sometimes utilized as an invoice to the purchaser , the majority surviving in public and private collections were not . |
| 8 | They were known amongst the respectable classes as the Ranters . |
| 9 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 10 | Today , it is known as the Minoan civilization , after the legends about King Minos , Theseus and the Minotaur . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is the figure mentioned as so resembling the copies of the Tyrannicides that it is known as the Kritian boy . |
| 14 | It is also happy in New Zealand and in the USA where , confusingly and misleadingly , it is known as the American White Park . |
| 15 | This implied that only in the sphere of the mathematical sciences can the human intellect attain knowledge that is as objective and as certain as it is known to the divine mind . |
| 16 | Fired with enthusiasm for the new Europe on his return flight over the North Sea , Fuhrer Kinnock , as he is known in the German press , seemed more frustrated than ever at being out of office at such a momentous time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was known as the old Edinburgh road . |
| 20 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 21 | It was known in the dairy-farming areas of south-west England that milkmaids , and others who contracted the relatively mild and non-infectious disease of cowpox through handling udders of infected cows , obtained immunity from smallpox , and in 1765 the Medical Society of London received from a Dr Fewster a paper on ‘ Cow Pox and its Ability to prevent Smallpox ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |
| 24 | I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort . |
| 25 | He was known for the refined dandyism of his appearance , the flutterings and oscillations of his bearing , his heavy drinking , and his intense shyness . |
| 26 | Gaunt , even spectral , the figure of Norman Tebbit ( ‘ Big Norm' as he was known to the irreverent , ‘ Little Norm ’ being Lamont , and ‘ Nice Norm ’ , Fowler ) stood in his place , waving a sheaf of papers . |
| 27 | Uncle Dickie , as he was known to the whole family , was a dynamic , tyrannical figure , full of energy , drive and ambition , who aroused strong passions in everyone who came into contact with him . |
| 28 | Certainly Cade 's assumption of the name Mortimer , by which he was known in the earlier stages of the revolt , hints at Yorkist connections . |
| 29 | Adapted in Baghdad and Cairo , cross-fertilized with the ancient medical practices of Pharaonic Egypt , Sumeria , Assyria and Babylon , Unani medicine was finally codified into a cohesive system by the great Arab scholar Ibn Sina ( or Avicenna as he was known in the mediaeval west ) . |