Example sentences of "more [adv] known [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually the island became more widely known through picture albums , engravings and travel books . |
| 2 | Similarly , his principle of " concomitant variation " proposed that whatever phenomenon varies whenever another phenomenon varies , is either the cause or the effect of that phenomenon — a principle more familiarly known as correlation . |
| 3 | Wet moorlands — more correctly known as blanket bogs — often vegetated with a heather/cotton grass/cross-leaved heath or purple moor grass/deer sedge plant community , are not usually amenable to agricultural development on a significant scale . |
| 4 | These tugs built by John Lewis & Sons Ltd. in Aberdeen and more commonly known as water tractors were the first of their kind in Scotland . |
| 5 | They may be glazed , with a plain colour or a printed design , or unglazed — more commonly known as quarry tiles — and many have textured surfaces to make them less slippery underfoot . |
| 6 | Aphrosyne Taylor-Agathangelou , now more commonly known as Folly Taylor , emerged from the Rose Bowl — from her Rose Bowl — in a daze of excited speculation . |