Example sentences of "[prep] be known as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 2 | Ralph Metcalfe , that great sprinter of the early thirties and adversary of Jesse Owens , was not , I suspect , enamoured of being known as the ‘ Midnight Express ’ . |
| 3 | He 's fed up with being known as The Charmer . |
| 4 | I have always felt uneasy in being known as the founder of the regiment . |
| 5 | Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money . |
| 6 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 7 | What business is it of the State if someone now wishes to be known as a woman , where previously she was considered a man ? |
| 8 | She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse . |
| 9 | Church is the place where we hope to find an experience to love , to be known as a parson , sharing the stories of our lives and the stories of our faith . |
| 10 | Michael is what used to be known as a righteous dope fiend . |
| 11 | Easily Accessible : Bridport is an interesting Saxon town , historically famous for its rope-making — a hangman 's noose used to be known as a Bridport dagger . |
| 12 | He was prepared to be known as a ‘ tight-wad ’ . |
| 13 | The pioneers of early education , while differing from each other in methods and materials , essentially look what has come to be known as a ‘ child-centred ’ approach , wherein it was paramount to base education on a child 's ‘ nature and needs ’ rather than on some preconceived theory . |
| 14 | Following Michael Young 's usage of the term , such a system of role allocation has come to be known as a ‘ meritocracy ’ . |
| 15 | Now , Fiona was thought to be a suitable bride for my father-just the right age , pretty and vivacious enough it was thought to appeal to a man who was beginning to be known as a confirmed bachelor . ’ |
| 16 | They kissed again and John held her so close that she could feel the beat of his heart , but then he said stubbornly , ‘ I wanted you to know , love , but I do n't want us to be known as a courting couple , not by our families or anyone , until I get this cleared up . ’ |
| 17 | But those who could speak English spoke no Welsh aloud in Shrewsbury in those days , for feeling was running all the higher because the two races bred and mingled so closely here , and it was well to be known as a loyal king 's man , and indulge other sympathies only in low voices round the hearth , or better still , in silence within the heart . |
| 18 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 19 | Divided up into three groupings , the A , B , and C special constabularies , according to diminishing power , responsibility , and time commitment , the force was soon cut down to class B only and these came to be known as the ‘ B Specials ’ , a thoroughly armed , militant , semi-private , and sectarian army . |
| 20 | the values of communitas are strikingly present in the literature and behaviour of what came to be known as the ‘ beat generation ’ , who were succeeded by the ‘ hippies ’ … [ and who ] opt out of the status-bound social order and acquire the stigmata of the lowly … |
| 21 | More recently , and perhaps begging the question of its mental significance , it has come to be known as the Readiness Potential ( RP ) . |
| 22 | A £16.1m dam will hold back a 2.6-mile-long artificial lake to be known as the Roadford Reservoir . |
| 23 | Honda 's version of the 200 — to be known as the Concerto — will be built under contract at Longbridge in Birmingham by Rover at an initial rate of 40,000 a year . |
| 24 | The impression which was made upon the British by what came to be known as the Canadian model was correspondingly deep and powerful . |
| 25 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 26 | Thus there developed what became to be known as the War of the Roses , which raged on and off from 1455 to 1485 . |
| 27 | During the 19th and 20th centuries , this came to be known as the policy of the balance of power , and was principally associated with perfidious Albion . |
| 28 | I would not , therefore , expect theism to have to rest its case on the sort of argument for God 's existence that Anselm advanced in the eleventh century and which has come to be known as the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ . |
| 29 | Accompanying these changes in the policy and organisation of the church was the growth of new developments in theology , which have come to be known as the Theology of Liberation . |
| 30 | I also want to address two more complex issues in textual and sexual theory : firstly , the political implications of poststructuralist attempts to discredit notions of authorial agency ; and secondly , the related debates in gay theory around what have come to be known as the poles of ‘ essentialism ’ and ‘ social constructionism ’ ( terms I will elaborate on later ) . |