Example sentences of "[noun] know as [art] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore looks as though Swegen wintered in England , and in the following spring perhaps went plundering in the Irish Sea , for one of the versions of the Welsh chronicle known as the Annales Cambriæ records the harrying of the Isle of Man by a Swegen son of Harald in a year which is likely to be 995 . |
| 2 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
| 3 | When a famous warrior died he was commemorated by a monument known as a das in front of which upright stones indicated the number of his victims . |
| 4 | She had a soirée known as the Cercle Republicain . |
| 5 | From it you can walk to Itxassou 's other half , which is clustered round the church , about a kilometre away and within sight of the defile known as the Pas de Roland , an opening in the rock said to have been made by the hoofs of this luckless paladin 's horse ( but more of Roland in the appropriate place , when we come to Roncevaux ) . |
| 6 | As she is impervious to his suggestions , he is determined to revive the old custom known as the droit du seigneur ( one of the most hated abuses of the Ancien Régime ) , whereby the lord of a manor was entitled to deflower his female servants before their weddings . |
| 7 | A body known as the G10 Commission had the authority to decide , either ex officio or on application by a person believing himself or herself to be under surveillance , ‘ on both the legality of and the necessity for the [ surveillance ] measures ’ . |
| 8 | Work on this aircraft had been prompted by the success earlier of an experimental lightweight hull used in a converted Supermarine Southampton known as the A.14 . |
| 9 | COULD something good emerge from the multi-billion-dollar disaster known as the S&L bail-out ? |
| 10 | A group of Teleuts , in tsarist documents known as the vyezzhye belye Kalmyki , moved into Russian-held territory and settled there out of reach of the Teleut princes . |
| 11 | A tank known as the A.14 Model was designed in conjunction with the War Office and facilities were provided at Crewe Locomotive Works for the erection of a pilot model , completed in July 1939 . |