Example sentences of "they [be] known [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are known as the Super Mario Brothers . |
| 2 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 3 | They were known as the Winant Volunteers , after John Winant , the US Ambassador to Britain during the Second World War . |
| 4 | How they were used is not generally agreed upon , for , whilst the obverse of some of these cards — ‘ shopkeepers ' bills ’ as they were known by the eighteenth-century tradesmen — were sometimes utilized as an invoice to the purchaser , the majority surviving in public and private collections were not . |
| 5 | They were known amongst the respectable classes as the Ranters . |