Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] known as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infested with Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain . |
| 2 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 3 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 4 | The scarlet pimpernel is so sensitive that it is often known as the Poor Man 's Weather Glass . |
| 5 | It then reverted to the church , not without some controversy , and it is now known as the church rooms . |
| 6 | Edmund Becke 's 1549 revision of the so-called ‘ Matthew ’ version ( Thomas Matthew being a fictitious name adopted to cover the true identity of the translator ) was also a Bug Bible ; but it is also known as the ‘ Wife-beater Bible ’ because of Becke 's annotation at I St. Peter iii.7 . |
| 7 | This gives what Lord Wright calls the " datum figure " , but it is also known as the annual dependency or the multiplicand . |
| 8 | You probably already know what a larva is because it is also known as a caterpillar . |
| 9 | It may have had a more sinister purpose later , as it is now known as The Whipping Stone . |