Example sentences of "[been] know [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 2 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |
| 3 | from Birmingham says hanging upside down has always been known as a cure in the Far East and it does work . |
| 4 | Samuel Irving — ‘ Si ’ — Newhouse jr , second-generation New York billionaire , had long been known as a collector of modern American art , but his November 1988 purchase of Jasper John 's False Start propelled him into the public consciousness . |
| 5 | Its colour used to range from yellowish or tawny to dark red , but the red was always preferred and the breed is now characteristically ‘ ruby red ’ — a dark but bright blood colour — and it has long been known as the Ruby of the West . |
| 6 | Walsh has been known as the demon bowler , but to the Gloucestershire team , who kknow hin as Shortie , he 's more often been their saviour . |
| 7 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 8 | Six months later Michele gave Lucia a ring , which has always been known as the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ For the size of the school , we have done some remarkable things , ’ added the 47-year-old , who has something musical in the pipeline every term at the school which , over the years , has variously been known as the North of England Agricultural School , Ayton School , The Friends School , Great Ayton , and recently reverted to Ayton School . |
| 10 | Had n't it always been known as the centre of the Western World ? |
| 11 | But so far no one has provided a satisfactory answer to why , for generations , the Cumberland has inevitably been known as the Blood Kit . |
| 12 | Steeped in a fairytale atmosphere , the fishing villages of Monterosso , Vernazza , Corniglia , Manarola and Riomaggiore have been known as the Cinque Terre or ‘ Five lands ’ since medieval times and are laced together by an intricate coastal path . |
| 13 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 14 | Kampuchea had been known as the Kingdom of Cambodia prior to 1970 , as the Khmer Republic between 1970-75 and as Democratic Kampuchea from 1976-79 . |
| 15 | It had previously been known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) . |
| 16 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 17 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 18 | It has even been known for a company to respond to a request for information six weeks after the initial query and then to complain that their product had been left out ! |
| 19 | The problem of toxics and blue-green algae had been known for a century in countries like Australia and the US where it occurred naturally . |
| 20 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 21 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 22 | None of these facts , Simone pointed out , could have been known to the healer she consulted in Canterbury . |
| 23 | Parliament has conferred more freedom from restraint on trade unions than has ever been known to the law before . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) The estate of a partner who dies , or who becomes bankrupt , or of a partner who , not having been known to the person dealing with the firm to be a partner , retires from the firm , is not liable for partnership debts contracted after the date of the death , bankruptcy , or retirement respectively . |
| 25 | It has been known to the West since the 17th century . |
| 26 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 27 | Many of the children will have experienced poverty and insecurity , if not actual neglect , and may well have been known to the health or education authorities as children at special risk before they come into the care of the social services department . |
| 28 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 29 | Mass strandings have been known since the time of the ancient Greeks ; Aristotle himself recorded them . |
| 30 | There was not one face amongst them that would have been known by the populace at large . |