Example sentences of "[pron] now know as " in BNC.

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1 How much truth there was in all these myths you now know as well as I. Certainly the Witnesses hit early on the fact that , rippling in and out of hyperspace , even ships as basic as the Bergen Kobold change slightly every time .
2 The dog that accompanied the eleventh legion that was to conquer the area we now know as Rottweil in AD 74 would not be recognizable as the breed we know today .
3 Of gaol fever , which we now know as typhus , Howard later wrote :
4 Such a mixture we now know as potpourri , from the French pourrir , to rot , not a very accurate name , since the ingredients are preserved rather than allowed to decay .
5 There had to be freedom of association — that is , freedom to form political parties , and freedom to form the kind of associations we now know as pressure groups , whose purpose is to bring to bear on parties and on governments the combined pressure of the interests they represent .
6 At that time the area we now know as Scotland was situated near the present equator and much of the area was covered by the sea which explains the exotic nature of the finds .
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