Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] know as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democrats tend to be free-marketeers ( known , confusingly , as the left ) , authoritarians tend to be central planners ( who are known as the right ) . |
| 2 | Reports of the massacre could not be verified , as Burma remains a closed country since the military junta in Rangoon intensified its campaigns against the Arakanese Muslims who are known as Rohingyas , who have fled in their thousands into south-east Bangladesh . |
| 3 | Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax . |
| 4 | Most godly men , who were known as ‘ Puritans ’ were drawn to support parliament , whilst the more profane were drawn to the King 's side . |
| 5 | There were twenty-four houses at Eton , each with about forty-five boys who were known as Oppidans and were distinct from the seventy Scholars who lived apart in College . |
| 6 | McNeile 's house , like the others , was run by four or five boys who were known as " the Library " — the equivalent of house prefects . |
| 7 | Li Xiannian , President of China between 1983 and 1988 , and one of a group of aged CCP leaders — including Deng — who were known as " the eight immortals " , died on June 21 , aged 83 . |
| 8 | The choice of Aquitaine is then linked variously to the ability of the people of that part of Gaul to pay , the possibility that they may have backed the wrong side in the recent usurpations against the emperor Honorius , and the threat from separatist groups north of the Loire , who were known as Bacaudae . |
| 9 | Richard Banks , who 's known as Banksey , is at the centre of ’ Hip Hop ’ and a central figure at Stone Youth group . |
| 10 | The third bore instead a painted scene ( obliterated ) , but also the signature of Endoios who is known as a sculptor . |
| 11 | Manuela , who is known as Manola to most of her friends , had to give up her job at Cholsey 's Fairmile Hospital after twenty two years there because of the painful lung disease . |
| 12 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 13 | Notably , he ran up against director Henry Hathaway who was known as one of the toughest directors in the business , and Hopper had a minor role in From Hell to Texas . |
| 14 | Westmount York was extensively remodelled by Walter Brierley who was known as ‘ the Lutyens of the North ’ . |
| 15 | Randy Sherwood , who was known as the Cock of the South , had a handicap of two and was so glamorous with his long , long legs and curly hair that fell perfectly into shape , that girls clamoured to groom for him for nothing . |
| 16 | The duties of the ordinary policeman , who was known as a constable , were arduous , at least in Colombo . |
| 17 | One KESA graduate , who was known as a superstar in the world of torture , said of his training : ‘ They aimed to produce tools — people with no minds of their own , people who , when you said ‘ stand up ’ , stood up . ’ |
| 18 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 19 | Yet Bright , who was known as a radical liberal , famous for his attacks on the old aristocratic and feudal order , was emphatic that he was not a democrat : |
| 20 | Ta Mok , one of Pol Pot 's lieutenants who was known as " the butcher " during Khmer Rouge rule in 1975-78 , has warned that anyone found contravening environmental directives in the area under his jurisdiction will be sentenced to labour on building the reserve fence . |
| 21 | Who was known as The Butcher of Lyons ? |