Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] is [adv] known as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And number three whose was the signet ring which is sometimes known as the fisherman 's ring ? |
| 2 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 3 | But to repay the loan , you pay monthly contributions to a Personal Equity Plan which is commonly known as a PEP . |
| 4 | This is usually called an occupational or company pension if the employer is private ; and in the public sector it is often known as superannuation . |
| 5 | The problem concerns what is usually known as book work — the arguments laying the basis of some subject in logical terms , and developing it to a proved law or relationship . |
| 6 | This is thought to be the base of an old stone cross , and was found in a field higher up the hill which is still known as ‘ Stone Chair Close ’ . |
| 7 | A striking example of this is the Cakile maritima - Honkenya peploides community which is otherwise known as the Mertensio-Atriplicetum laciniatae association , from which Mertensia is nearly always absent in Scotland ! |
| 8 | ‘ It 's something I 've always wanted to do ’ said Glen who is better known as an up and coming tenor in the operetta and classical music fields . |
| 9 | What we need to do is to add a drug called Anapril Which is otherwise known as Inavase and somewhere , but somewhere we have a Brilliant , it 's gone again . |
| 10 | The French kept the two substantial islands now known as Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island , just to the north of the peninsula , and also the area of the mainland between the peninsula and the St. Lawrence which is now known as New Brunswick . |
| 11 | Talabheim lies in the centre of the Great Forest and for this reason it is sometimes known as the Eye of the Forest , where , like the eye of a cyclone , all is calm amidst the danger all around . |
| 12 | In the eighteenth century , British teachers such as Henry Baker and Thomas Braidwood used oralism as part of a combined system which is nowadays known as Total Communication . |