Example sentences of "know by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the child is in care no-one may cause him to be known by a new surname or remove him from the United Kingdom without either the written consent of every person who has parental responsibility or the leave of the court ( s33(7) ) . |
| 2 | In feeling , though not in detail , this stands closer perhaps to another figure known in many copies through which a really great original seems to shine : ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ ( fig. 81 ) , after the scholar who reconstructed her from copies of the head ( known by a quaint tradition as ‘ Aspasia ’ ) and of the body , one with a Roman portrait-head . |
| 3 | It is perhaps for these entirely practical reasons that each approximate size and shape of rug is known by a specific name which usually relates either to its traditional position on the floor or the purpose for which is was made . |
| 4 | The other kind of flow , with the rubbly ‘ conveyor-belt ’ surface is also known by a Polynesian name ; it is called an aa flow . |
| 5 | The identity of this woman is known by a remarkable coincidence . |
| 6 | Wine disposed of , they proceeded to the kitchen where the bean casserole was making its presence known by a savoury odour . |
| 7 | The terms " diagonal " , " side " and " perimeter " of a rectangle were known by a high proportion of pupils , " area " by fewer . |
| 8 | And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed . |
| 9 | Furthermore , it did not seem to him right that a specifically Indian movement should be known by an English name . |
| 10 | This star is Canopus , which Ariel and her people knew by a different name . |