Example sentences of "know [prep] the [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | BASHIR Makhoul 's paintings at the Bluecoat are superficially in the style known in the 1960s as Hard Edge strongly patterned abstracts in flat areas of contrasting colours . |
| 2 | It was Charles who , by barring Cumberland 's way forward , really dictated the site , a stretch of open moorland about 500 feet [ 150 m ] above sea level , between the Moray Firth and the River Nairn , five miles [ 8 km ] east of Inverness , known to the Scots as Drummossie Moor . |
| 3 | Aldfrith , known to the Irish as Flann ( AU s.a. 703 : AT p. 219 : CA p. 148 ) , was an illegitimate son of King Oswiu by Fín , daughter , according to genealogical tradition , of the northern Uí Néill king in Ireland , Colmán Rímid , who died c . |
| 4 | One was centred in Nghe-An , Nguyen 's birth-place , while in Cochin China ( known to the Vietnamese as Nam Bo ) several revolts broke out in the Mekong delta . |
| 5 | There were the political monks , U Ottama and U Wisara , and there was the supposed king , Thupannaka Galuna Raja , known to the British as Saya San , whose revolt in 1930 affected one-quarter of Burma . |
| 6 | The word I have here glossed as " mankind " was Jinghpaw , which is the term by which the people known to the British as Kachins describe themselves . |
| 7 | Then , calling for his ‘ Orangeand ’ , known to the faithful as orange and tequila , Botham raced ahead . |