Example sentences of "[verb] known [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |
| 2 | This gives rise to the danger of what has become known as the two-thirds , one-third society in which the majority obtains secure well-paid full-time ‘ core ’ jobs and the minority become ‘ marginalised ’ , obtaining less well-paid , part-time , temporary , ‘ peripheral ’ jobs and hovering on the verge of poverty . |
| 3 | If the hole contained three items it became known as a pur-3 , four items a pur-4 , and so on . |
| 4 | West Germany , Switzerland , Austria and Canada all welcomed the proposal and , along with Scandinavia , became known as the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 5 | The band became known as the Thirty Comrades , their heroic status reflecting the company gathered round the great king Alaungpaya , although they were 68 in number . |
| 6 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 7 | Bird Jr denied Colombian suggestions that he had known about the 1989 shipment , but he admitted having had discussions with a former Israeli army officer who had plans to establish a business in Antigua . |
| 8 | As a military exercise , however , many gaps in British naval and air provision had been shown up ; but it was a spectacular triumph , the first that Britain had known since the 1950s . |