Example sentences of "[adv] known as [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charmingly known as Children of the Evening Star , these three lovely Greek goddesses guarded the golden apples which HERA received as a marriage gift . |
| 2 | The competition takes place in Grantham on March 15 and winners will be presented with prizes by actress Gretchen Franklin , better known as Ethel from Eastenders . |
| 3 | Brian — better known as BK to his friends — went to the Ukraine in November on a visit organised by the Life Church of Mobile . |
| 4 | The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) . |
| 5 | Mr Wilczek was best known as minister of industry under Poland 's last Communist government . |
| 6 | Jane Rossington , best known as Jill in Crossroads is appearing at the Redgrave Theatre , Farnham , from April 1st in Do n't Rock the Boat . |
| 7 | A Welsh variety of BROWNIE , also known as Bwciod of Booka . |
| 8 | I nearly told him Coney Island was also known as Sodom by the Sea , but thought better of it . |
| 9 | XUV radiation ( also known as EUV for ‘ extreme ultraviolet ’ ) refers to wavelengths between 9 and 10 nonometres and is virtually unexplored ; until recent year , astronomers thought that hydrogen in space would totally absorb them . |
| 10 | Hardly any thing could resist this accuracy at which I was much impressed , though a bit alarmed at Griffin himself , who sat around on a stool amid the most dreadful carnage and what was later known as flak in order to observe the behaviour and results of his phenomenal piece of artillery . |
| 11 | Runners-up in the scheduled services category were Pickford 's Travel , now known as Wagon-Lits of Stockton , and Thomas Cook in Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | The theory of state monopoly capitalism ( often known as Stamocap for short ) is used by the ruling communist parties of the Soviet bloc and orthodox Western communist parties loyal to Moscow in order to analyse the state in contemporary liberal democracies ( Jessop , 1982 , p. 32 ; Hardach and Karras , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | well known as centres of academic learning and excellence , where people are taught to degree-level standard . |
| 14 | Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative . |
| 15 | For instance , in Xian city ( the capital of China , then known as Chang'an at the time of Christ ) the annual rainfall is low ( 750 mm ) but still relatively high for fully-exposed mud walls . |
| 16 | Holkham Hall was the home of the famous agricultural pioneer Thomas Coke , universally known as Coke of Norfolk , who became Earl of Leicester five years before his death in 1842 . |
| 17 | It was the mouthpiece of the Chairbear of the Bearly-Made-It Skydive Squad , otherwise known as BMISS with the password ‘ Geronimo ’ exhorted by an excited Fredbear who appeared in various guises near the masthead . |
| 18 | The laws of war , otherwise known as jus in bello , govern the actual conduct of armed conflicts and military occupations . |
| 19 | It was never known as Street in those days , it was called the Street . |
| 20 | The close proximity within which these financial institutions operate , coupled with the very special nature of financial services themselves , makes the industry notorious for the prevalence of what are commonly known as conflict of interest situations . |
| 21 | Plucky little Ann McDonald from Scotland has spina bifida and hydroencephalus , commonly known as water on the brain . |
| 22 | Deeds of variations were orginally known as deeds of family arrangement because they were generally used to re-arrange assets within a family so as to cover circumstances not foreseen by the deceased when the will was made . |