Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] know as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | She later became better known as Lord Nelson 's mistress , Lady Hamilton . |
| 3 | For two days , Ollokot , Five Wounds and Rainbow led frequent attacks against the soldiers ' position , which became aptly known as Misery Hill , and forty-eight horses stolen by Whipple from Looking Glass 's village were re-captured . |
| 4 | They became collectively known as the Brat Pack because , like the original Rat Pack , these young actors tended to work together as an ensemble . |
| 5 | The cumulative effect of decision-making is communicated to tutors and the Co-ordinator by the Admissions Officer through the weekly issue of a computer print out known as a P11 . |
| 6 | In 1958 Thomas was promoted group captain and two years later was posted to the Royal Australian Air Force , where he commanded the Tottenham station at Melbourne and became affectionately known as ‘ Father ’ . |
| 7 | Blazer offered his workforce a piece of waste ground behind the mattress shed for a pitch and it soon became affectionately known as the ‘ Football Ground ’ . |
| 8 | But they soon became affectionately known as the lumberjills , an army of 3,000 women making sure the war effort was never hampered by a lack of timber . |
| 9 | Henry at once launched destructive raids into Scotland in what became wryly known as the ‘ Rough Wooing ’ . |
| 10 | He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition . |
| 11 | In fact , SuperCalc has become best known as a power user 's tool , more likely because of its serious outlook , rather than any vast superiority in the features stakes . |
| 12 | It is thus entirely appropriate that Hegelian Marxism has become generally known as ‘ Western Marxism ’ . |
| 13 | His district has become popularly known as a disordered and lawless community . |
| 14 | It was originally a corn mill and later became well known as , in about 1890 , it became the site of Lord Edward Spencer Churchill 's first electric power generator . |
| 15 | In past centuries the cattle of Wales became well known as graziers ' stock in the English Midlands in particular , where considerable herds of steers were traditionally fattened on grass or winter-yarded . |
| 16 | Cleyn became well known as an engraver and a painter in England , but these cartoons were to be his masterpiece . |
| 17 | It was a vintage year for the Chemistry Department — a fellow student and colleague of Frank Rose , N Cusa , became well known as a painter in water colours and illustrated at least one ICI calendar . |
| 18 | He became well known as a music festival adjudicator , working in Canada every alternate year between 1924 and 1938 , and he took the Glasgow Orpheus Choir on tours to Canada , the USA , and half a dozen European countries . |
| 19 | These manoeuvres , expedited by good lateral railway systems in both France and Germany , became misleadingly known as ‘ the race to the sea ’ . |
| 20 | of course we do n't know what , as your Lordship says we do n't know as a matter of fact what the , the height of the |
| 21 | In 1966 , Bechuanaland gained its independence and became officially known as the Republic of Botswana . |
| 22 | HUNTINGTOWER Once known as Ruthven castle , created from two tower houses linked together , with fine painted ceilings . |
| 23 | ( These cars became commonly known as Pantographs ) . |
| 24 | He played little first-class cricket , but was later to become better known as the founder of a very substantial and internationally-known insurance broking business in Paris . |
| 25 | The period also witnessed the emergence of a minister who was to become popularly known as the prime minister . |
| 26 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |