Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] know as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was hoping he would not offer us a glass of his very potent drink that I now know as Calvados . |
| 2 | These distinguishing devices developed in time into the system we now know as heraldry . |
| 3 | Her enormous empire , Palmyra , extended the land we now know as Iraq through to Southern Africa . |
| 4 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 5 | In fact , Plato , who as far back as the fourth century BC had divided the sentence into what we now know as subject and predicate , used the terms ónoma and rhema ( which originally meant ‘ name ’ and ‘ saying ’ respectively ) . |
| 6 | That defeat closed the west to the Magyars who then set about colonising the Pannonian plain and founding the state we now know as Hungary . |