Example sentences of "[adv] known [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A development of the single-transformer ratio-arm bridge , naturally known as the double-transformer ratio-arm bridge , is shown in its essential form in figure 7.12 .
2 True crinoids are doubtfully known before the Ordovician , but once established they diversified rapidly in the manner we have seen repeatedly with other groups .
3 The conference decided that the country ( hitherto known as the People 's Republic of the Congo ) should be renamed the Republic of Congo .
4 This is something we have all known for the past few months .
5 In Dresden , long known for a softer line than elsewhere , the Mayor , Wolfgang Berghofer , announced after talks with 20 church and New Forum opposition activists that he was willing to discuss their nine-point proposal , and release anyone arrested who was not accused of violence within 24 hours .
6 Fishermen have long known of the association , and have traditionally used the presence of dolphins as a cue to finding schools of tuna .
7 Equally notable has been the worsening relationship with leaders of the Church of England — for so long known as the Tory party at prayer .
8 New York was long known as the imperial city — the place that drilled tunnels and threw majestic bridges across the East and Hudson rivers , whose railway stations celebrated beaux-arts architecture , and where rich visionaries went to town with such mighty groups of buildings as the Rockefeller Centre .
9 These ancient piles of stones , long known as the Three Men of Gragareth , have an origin beyond the memory of man : they stand side by side , mute sentinels overlooking a vast panorama that has never changed and never will .
10 Wills is a name long known in the West Country .
11 A close relative of the morgenstern was the aptly named ‘ holy water sprinkler ’ , more prosaically known as the military flail .
12 This lack of ascription was subsequently remedied by the shorter prologue , which survives in a limited number of manuscripts of the Pactus : apparently known to the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum , the shorter prologue seems to date from the late seventh or early eighth century .
13 This opposition became more acute when , in 1813 , the liberated areas , where a modern administration was only known as a French imposition , came within the new constitution .
14 It was a word that Masklin had only known for a year .
15 If z describes market conditions which are only known to the incumbent , then the results above tell us that the entrants gradually get to learn the incumbent 's private information .
16 A major new book is Jelena Hahl-Koch 's Kandinsky ( £75 ) with 420 illustrations and incorporating many works only known after the opening up of the old USSR in 1989 and the first Kandinsky retrospective in his homeland .
17 Until recently it was only known from an early black and white photograph .
18 One of these , the Blacksmith s Arms , is familiarly known as the Bombers , from its wartime associations with Melbourne airfield , built partly on Seaton Ross Common .
19 These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO .
20 It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment .
21 His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold .
22 Immigration formalities were waived and the passengers from the very last Kindertransport were taken in by the Manchester branch of the RC M. Two hostels were opened for the group henceforth known as the ‘ Amsterdam children ’ .
23 Trustee Bradford Eastman Phillips , retired president of Totes rain gear company and a member of the $1 million-plus club , took title to the Great Hall , which is henceforth known as the Phillips Hall .
24 The windows of the van were wide open and they had the radio on , not playing rock , which they both hated , but Mozart , one of the better known of the piano concertos .
25 Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) .
26 Though less information is available about craft culture among bricklayers , this occupation produced Robert Tatersal , Henry Jones , and John Frederick Bryant who is , perhaps , better known as a maker of clay-pipes .
27 However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator .
28 The lowest price submitted for the work , £232,024 , was from John Kelk of No. 13 South Street , Grosvenor Square , who had already carried out some work for the Government , but is better known as a railway contractor .
29 He was better known as a spirited champion of atheism , so many people do not realize that he believed in God until he was eighteen .
30 Sometimes appearing as a beautiful horse , saddled ready to ride , Lutin was better known as a hearth sprite .
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