Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] know as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In several advertisements by dealers I have noticed the following genera , which I have always thought were mostly known as houseplants : |
| 2 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 3 | Because of their favourable prognosis , they were long known as pseudolymphomas , however , immunohistochemical methods have now shown that most of these tumours are monoclongla B cell proliferations . |
| 4 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 5 | The aliphatic acids were once known as formic , acetic , propionic , butyric , pentanoic , hexanoic etc , but today they are more systematically named after the hydrocarbon with the same number of carbon atoms — ie methanoic , ethanoic , propanoic , butanoic etc . |
| 6 | Ampullaria were once known as Infusoria Snails , and kept as a source of fry food . |
| 7 | In a very real sense war was becoming an important supplementary source of livelihood , for which the nobility increasingly sold their services to the king in return for wages and promises of opportunities of obtaining what were euphemistically known as the ‘ advantages ’ of war : the profits of ransoms ; booty ; and grants of land seized from the conquered . |
| 8 | This includes illnesses which show that there is damage to the immune system and includes those which were formally known as AIDS-Related Complex ( ARC ) as well as the specific conditions which are diagnostic of AIDS . |
| 9 | These spirits were also known as ‘ mahrs ’ , and could assume a more erotic personality . |
| 10 | These were of the continuous burning vertical " type which were also known as Shaft Kilns . |
| 11 | Beginning in the 50s , we became active in a pre-civil rights movement and were later known as a civil rights school . |
| 12 | The mystery plays were originally known as the Corpus Christi Play ; the use of the singular ‘ play ’ indicated they were intended to be seen as a whole , while Corpus Christi refers to the holy day on which they were performed . |
| 13 | In those days of rationing and imitation food we associated fish paste and potted meat with the fearful compounds of soya bean flour , dried egg and dehydrated onions bashed up with snoek or Spam which were cheerfully known as " mock crab paste " and meat spread " . |
| 14 | Substances that blocked the actions of histamine were discovered from the late 1930s onwards , and by the end of the 1940s were well known as ‘ antihistamines ’ . |
| 15 | Other highly critical reports were subsequently published following inquiries into conditions at what were then known as subnormality hospitals . |
| 16 | These sloping tables were often set into the ground and were then known as buddles , but there were circular convex and concave huddles which were mechanical . |
| 17 | Well I say responsible , I was really responsible to erm the e what we c that were then known as Assistant Education Officers . |
| 18 | The former are termed ‘ skin disinfectants ’ and were previously known as antiseptics . |
| 19 | This change erodes the distinction between university and what were previously known as ‘ public sector ’ institutions , and may blur what Burgess ( 1977 , pp. 2332 ) has argued is a contrast between the ‘ autonomous ’ ( university ) and ‘ service ’ ( polytechnic/ college ) traditions . |
| 20 | The campus buildings are based around five squares raised up on concrete stilts which were officially known as podia . |
| 21 | The air raids were commonly known as the Baedeker Raids , after a publishing house that produced travel guides , because the Germans made a sudden switch from bombing major cities , industrial and military targets and bombed cities that did not have anything remotely possible connected with any major war effort . |
| 22 | Deeds of variations were orginally known as deeds of family arrangement because they were generally used to re-arrange assets within a family so as to cover circumstances not foreseen by the deceased when the will was made . |
| 23 | Following the charity event of last year The Rainforest Ball ( which was attended by so many of the titled upper classes that it was unofficially known as Toff Aid ) , attention is now focused on the Altamura Forest , Italy , the proposed site of a hydroelectric dam . |
| 24 | He started on the play which was eventually known as The Family Reunion in early 1936 , having first completed " Burnt Norton " . |
| 25 | It is clear , however , that Molla Fenari was widely known as " Fenari-oglu " , at least in its Arabic form , since not only does Ibn Hajar refer to him as " Ibn al-Fenari " but Molla Fenari himself does , in the addressed to Seyh Abdullatif . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For a short while it was apparently known as ‘ godnose ’ . |
| 29 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 30 | 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 . |