Example sentences of "be know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 'll be known as a bad girl even if you 're as pure as the Prophet 's daughter . ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | A £16.1m dam will hold back a 2.6-mile-long artificial lake to be known as the Roadford Reservoir . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | A united South Africa within the British Empire was the purpose for which , almost from the beginning of the Boer War , Lord Milner laboured and assembled the galaxy of British talent soon to be known as his kindergarten . |
| 36 | The impression which was made upon the British by what came to be known as the Canadian model was correspondingly deep and powerful . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | To be known as somebody else 's something , whether it 's husband of the prime minister or nephew of the chairman of the board , is to be like some kind of vestigial appendage . |
| 39 | The bill also refers to a new channel , to be known as channel 5 . |
| 40 | The Tigers , who are fighting for military supremacy in the Tamil-dominated north and east of the island , told a news conference their political wing would be known as the People 's Front of the Liberation Tigers . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Throughout the summer the dolphin , who came to be known as Opo , played with swimmers , performed tricks , escorted boats in the harbour , and for 11 weeks received regular newspaper coverage . |
| 43 | One skipper who sought to reduce the carnage discovered that trapped dolphins could be released from nets by the use of a manoeuvre which came to be known as ‘ backdown . ’ |
| 44 | The whole edifice will be known as the ‘ European Union ’ ( a term to note if you want to shine at dinner parties ) . |
| 45 | The Chancellor develops what in effect is , and comes to be known as , a court — the Court of Chancery . |
| 46 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 47 | For those who like variegated-leafed plants , another shade-loving perennial with good foliage and flowers is Brunnera macrophylla Dawson 's White ( which used to be known as Variegata ) . |
| 48 | ACCOUNTANT Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte has announced that from June 1 it will be known as Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 49 | Louis ( later to be known as ‘ the Pious ’ ) would rule the Spanish March , Aquitaine and Provence . |
| 50 | These came to be known as ‘ Hans Sloane plants ’ , although he died before their reproduction . |
| 51 | IVCO Process Valves will be known as IPV , the specialist process valves division of BSS , and together with AMS , the specialist pump division of BSS , will process documentation through a central computer to improve customer service . |
| 52 | Thus there developed what became to be known as the War of the Roses , which raged on and off from 1455 to 1485 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 ’ . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The old monastic sites along the Twyver later came to be known as Barnwood , Court Farm , Fishers , Woods , Browns , Morins and Abbey Mills , the latter adjacent to the Cathedral , in what became known as Millers Green . |
| 57 | Humphrey Austin leased the mill , but in 1806 he bought what came to be known as New Mills . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The above suggestion was adopted and the additional decision was made to raise Stirling 's unit to the status of a full regiment of the British Army , to be known as 1 SAS Regiment . |
| 60 | The regiment was to come under the Director of Military Operations who would exercise control through a new department to be known as G ( Raiding Forces ) ( G(RF) ) . |