Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] know as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Chaskalson has long been known as a human-rights lawyer defending people charged under South Africa 's apartheid and terrorism laws . |
| 2 | Its colour used to range from yellowish or tawny to dark red , but the red was always preferred and the breed is now characteristically ‘ ruby red ’ — a dark but bright blood colour — and it has long been known as the Ruby of the West . |
| 3 | The race has always been known as le grand boucle , the great belt , a circuit binding together a large and various country whose distant regions — Provence and Picardy , Brittany and Savoy — knew little of each other . |
| 4 | Of course , the street of which I speak is merely the ten or so blocks that comprise the theatre district , and which , in the public imagination , has always been known as ‘ The Great White Way ’ . |
| 5 | The tradition of St Melangell was never forgotten and the little room at the east end , despite being rebuilt in the 18th century , has always been known as Cell-y-bedd ( the room of the grave ) . |
| 6 | from Birmingham says hanging upside down has always been known as a cure in the Far East and it does work . |
| 7 | Six months later Michele gave Lucia a ring , which has always been known as the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 8 | It has always been known as Kuwait , and erm the settlers of Kuwait are Arabs that came from Saudi Arabia and the southern part of Iraq and the southern parts of Iran , and they are settlers there . |
| 9 | For example , a Series 11 propshaft U/J is now an RTC 3291 , but has also been known as a 43()23 and a GUJ116 . |
| 10 | The last mill in the area is Colebrook Mill , which has also been known as Strattons Mill . |
| 11 | The lane has also been known as Thornton Street , when an inn — Thornton 's inn — was located there . |
| 12 | From the time when the sovereign lived at St James 's Palace , first occupied by Henry VIII and abandoned in favour of Buckingham House ( now Palace ) by George III , the court has traditionally been known as that of St James . |
| 13 | But so far no one has provided a satisfactory answer to why , for generations , the Cumberland has inevitably been known as the Blood Kit . |
| 14 | ‘ For the size of the school , we have done some remarkable things , ’ added the 47-year-old , who has something musical in the pipeline every term at the school which , over the years , has variously been known as the North of England Agricultural School , Ayton School , The Friends School , Great Ayton , and recently reverted to Ayton School . |
| 15 | He said ‘ Yes , Ernest , but he 'd always been known as Johnny Walker ’ . |
| 16 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 17 | The effect was explosive , and deeply embarrassing to the government 's position , which for years had been obstructive — to such an extent that Britain had long been known as ‘ The Dirty Man of Europe ’ . |
| 18 | Samuel Irving — ‘ Si ’ — Newhouse jr , second-generation New York billionaire , had long been known as a collector of modern American art , but his November 1988 purchase of Jasper John 's False Start propelled him into the public consciousness . |
| 19 | THE BOUNDARY changes of 1974 gave the name of Tayside to what had been the counties of Perthshire , Kinross-shire and Angus ( which itself had once been known as Forfarshire ) , while Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire became rather drably Central . |
| 20 | In the days when it was briefly fashionable to be seen around with black people she had also been known as ‘ Missy ’ , and she 'd had a black lover then . |
| 21 | It had previously been known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) . |
| 22 | Other families like my own ( Cowers ) have always been known as Cribby . |
| 23 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |