Example sentences of "to [be] known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 2 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 3 | In December 1975 , on what was ever afterwards to be known as Black Saturday , four Christians were found shot dead in a car outside the electricity company headquarters in east Beirut . |
| 4 | Humphrey Austin leased the mill , but in 1806 he bought what came to be known as New Mills . |
| 5 | Thus they came to be known as Dark Elves . |
| 6 | The joint venture , to be known as Unified Technologies , is aimed at transforming this Russian answer to Silicon Valley , in the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd , into a world class producer of semiconductors , peripherals and other computer products . |
| 7 | Consequently , the jobs available to youths came to be known as dead-end' jobs or as ‘ blind-alley ’ employment in this period of history . |
| 8 | His name was Alec Cooke , but he preferred to be known as Ace Cool . |
| 9 | At a meeting in Chandigarh on Jan. 12 , senior Akali leaders representing the Mann , Badal and Longowal groups decided to merge as a single Akali Dal to be known as Shiromani Akali Dal ( SAD ) . |
| 10 | ( In January 1991 senior Akali leaders representing the Mann , Badal and Longowal groups merged as a single Akali Dal , to be known as Shiromani Akali Dal , with Mann as its leader — see p. 37964 . ) |
| 11 | Such people describe their ability as being due to " shadows " or " pressure " felt on the face , and so the skill has come to be known as facial vision . |
| 12 | THE Royal Bank 's newly-formed Telephone Service Unit is to be known as Direct Banking . |
| 13 | Early in her career she undertook collaborative research with William Bateson [ q.v. ] on plant-breeding experiments on Biscutella laevigata , the work involving a study of what came to be known as dominant and recessive characters . |
| 14 | The analogy was an apt one , for the book helped to set in motion the new movement which came to be known as Dialectical Theology , and whose leading lights , apart from Barth himself , were Brunner , Bultmann and Gogarten . |
| 15 | Day care facilities for the mentally handicapped include what used to be known as adult training centres . |
| 16 | But whether the separation of powers doctrine implies the existence of that degree of checking or controlling which has come to be known as judicial review in the American sense is not easy to decide . |
| 17 | Incidence of disease needs to be known for aetiological studies but is also important to those planning diagnostic services within the health service . |
| 18 | The inquiry , which starts in Northallerton on May 19 , is expected to last two months although the inspector 's decision is not likely to be known until early 1993 . |
| 19 | Appropriate too , because the sudden greening of British politics , the rediscovery of the quality of life ( QOL , as it used to be known among Labour ministers on a previous incarnation ) introduces a catalytic ingredient into the brew known as Thatcherism . |