Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] know as " in BNC.

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1 He copied Montfort 's precedent by summoning national assemblies which became known as ‘ Parliaments ’ , although only consultative , with absolute power remaining with the King .
2 One such barge went with the office of the Lord Mayor of the City of London and that barge was quite frequently moored off the shore at Strand-on-the-Green , close to an inn which became known as ‘ The City Barge ’ .
3 Nevertheless the breaking of the German Enigma codes , which became known as the Ultra secret , played a vital role in winning the war and was the only good thing to come out of MI6 .
4 Stirling himself was driving a hybrid vehicle that he had obtained in Cairo which became known as the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ .
5 There was Florey 's original material , which became known as Penicillin-I or Penicillin-F ( for Florey ) ; Penicillin-II or Penicillin-G ( because G came after F ) from the Squibb Laboratories ; Penicillin-III or Penicillin-X from the laboratories at Peoria ; and Penicillin-IV or Penicillin-K from the Abbot Laboratories .
6 Mackay had no love for the Jacobite cause and in spite of his defeat at the Battle of Killiecrankie , he was given the task of subduing the Highlands , where he built the fort at the head of Loch Linnhe which became known as Fort William .
7 The sidings , which became known as Thornton Gate , opened with the arrival of the first coal train on September 23 1927 .
8 The main national network , which became known as Idhaa ya Kiswahili ( ‘ The Swahili Service ’ ) , had as one of its main aims ‘ informing and educating public opinion ’ .
9 This process , which became known as impeachment , seems to have arisen by accident when de la Mare declared that he and his colleagues would maintain their charges in common .
10 The influence of Darwinian theory on Victorian social thought is often thought of in terms of ‘ the survival of the fittest ’ and the notions of struggle and competition which became known as ‘ Social Darwinism ’ .
11 In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage .
12 However , the Front was increasingly built up and reinforced by the North via the route which became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail .
13 His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " .
14 He continued in words which became known as the Kilmuir rules :
15 The eventual results were the creation of a new degree in natural science in 1850 , and the building of a new scientific teaching centre , which became known as the University Museum .
16 The gardens of Stourhead are historically important as an early example of the union of art and nature , which became known as ‘ le jardin anglais ’ .
17 And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church .
18 Meanwhile , during October of 1756 , Anthony Tissington of Alfreton in Derbyshire , set men to work at Coniston on the westerly edge of the sett , that part which became known as Paddies ' End .
19 It has been mentioned earlier however , that with gunpowder , Roe modified the old 17th century hand chiselled level which became known as Cobbler 's Level .
20 A great ramp of rock was built up to its mouth which became known as the Thriddle Incline — a conspicuous present day feature .
21 Other influential evidence was provided by Phillips ( 1958 ) who showed that for the UK for almost 100 years before the late 1950s there appeared to exist a stable relationship — which became known as the Phillips curve — between a real variable , unemployment , and the rate of change of a nominal variable , nominal wages .
22 Alexander Dubcek , the Communist Party leader during the reform movement in 1968 which became known as the Prague Spring , died on Nov. 7 from serious internal injuries sustained in a car accident in September .
23 This philosophy , which became known as the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ , persisted into the presidency of his successor and became part of the conditioning material at play in later Washington reflexes .
24 His major work , however , which became known as The Scale of Perfection was extremely popular in his own time .
25 A second committee , headed by the Williamite Whig , John Somers , and which contained sixteen Whigs to only six Tories , deliberately removed the radical proposals found in the Heads of Grievances , reducing it to the much more conservative document which became known as the Declaration of Rights .
26 At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum .
27 In September 1976 when — as this week — Blackpool 's Winter Gardens played host to a government in turmoil , James Callaghan and Denis Healey had to confront what became known as the IMF crisis .
28 At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal .
29 Baldwin fought what became known as a ‘ Safety First ’ campaign .
30 At the culmination of what became known as the ‘ Eggwina ’ crisis , she infuriated egg producers by claiming that most British egg production was infected by salmonella .
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