Example sentences of "[pers pn] be known in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Whether from shame or fear of the all-pervasive Mukhabarat security police , people are reluctant to talk of the four civilians in Maan who were killed - they do not use the word ‘ martyred ’ as would Palestinians on the West Bank of the river — during the ‘ sorrowful events ’ as they are known in official parlance .
2 The quality and quantity of ornament is very similar , and , although the cantharus in the angle and the aquatic scenes adjacent to the design are absent , they are known in other mosaics at Lydney , e.g. a cantharus in the mosaic of room XLI ( Wheeler 1932 , pI .
3 The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north .
4 In a variety of forms it was known in ancient times .
5 She uses only the pinhole camera or , as it was known in pre-photographic times , the camera obscura .
  Next page