Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 2 | There were thirty-two plays in the Wakefield cycle , or Towneley cycle as it was also known when it formed part of the library of Towneley Hall in Burnley . |
| 3 | Here again , however , can be seen the persisting tendency to link the conduct of foreign policy with miscellaneous internal functions ; for the First Secretariat of State , as it was usually known , acquired in 1782 control of the Madrid police . |
| 4 | Until 1880 oil was the only illuminant in use , but in that year a number of West Coast vehicles were lighted by compressed shale oil gas or , as it was commonly known , Pope 's gas . |
| 5 | But WS & C as it was now known world wide had carried the development of security to the ultimate . |
| 6 | The Zambia Daily Mail , as it was now known , received a subsidy from the Government . |
| 7 | He catalogued the ‘ alarms and excursions that were to make Windscale [ as it was then known ] internationally notorious ’ . |
| 8 | From Marks and Spencer to Sainsbury , from Trust House Forte , as it was then known , to Grand Metropolitan , a new era of professionalism took root . |
| 9 | The polo took place at the Khedivial Sports Club , or Gezira , as it was familiarly known , and the following afternoon found Owen walking dutifully about its spacious grounds with Jane Postlethwaite 's hand resting lightly on his arm . |
| 10 | Floors , or Fleurs as it was originally known , is situated in the Scottish Borders , halfway between Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 11 | It is quite clear to me that the hedgehog , or hedge-hopping hog , as it was originally known , is a dweller of the upper atmosphere . |
| 12 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Nostrification ’ , as it was pompously known , was a dream . |