Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrift disguised as Reason speciously suggests than an excess of Fluid Foundation on one 's face , unlike a poisoned sausage , will cause no harm . |
| 2 | We know that the picture by Rembrandt known as ‘ The Night Watch ’ is not a night watch , but a scene taking place in full daylight . |
| 3 | Béarn comes between the Basque country to the west and the part of the central Pyrenees known as Bigorre to the east . |
| 4 | the desolate home of Miss Havisham for which CD 's original was the picturesque old Elizabethan mansion in Rochester known as Restoration House in honour of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , the king having lodged there for one night en route for London . |
| 5 | Mrs Skewton known as , DS 21 et seq . |
| 6 | The Jewish people regarded what we now have as the Old Testament to be the World of God and acknowledged three categories or divisions : ( 1 ) The writings of Moses known as the ’ Pentateuch ’ ( Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers , Deuteronomy ) ; ( 2 ) The Psalms ; ( 3 ) The Prophets . |
| 7 | As the Roman hold on Britain slackened , Picts joined with other Gaelic-speaking incomers from Ireland known as Scotti a word meaning simply pirates . |
| 8 | There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll . |
| 9 | Easily Accessible : Ford House is situated in an area of Devon known as the South Hams — ‘ Hamme ’ is old English for a ‘ sheltered place ’ — and the climate here is particularly kind as the coasts are washed by the Gulf Stream . |
| 10 | About 24 people died on July 22-23 in violence in the industrial area 30 miles south of Johannesburg known as the Vaal Triangle . |
| 11 | The booklet has ben produced as part of the NKRF/Kidney Foundation Gift of Life initiative , a campaign to prevent kidney disease , and to encourage more people to carry organ donor cards . |
| 12 | JEWKES reveals BELVILLE disguised as Nan , pretending to be asleep in a chair . ] |
| 13 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
| 14 | As usual the event will be accompanied by a number of cultural activities including four seminars on collecting and an exhibition dedicated to the restoration of the area of Milan known as the Capitoline of S. Ambrogio . |
| 15 | The former is clearly Hancock reborn as a rag and bone man , the latter , well a ‘ dutty old man ’ . |
| 16 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 17 | Luxurious private supper rooms in the West-End known as ‘ the finishes ’ organized part-orgies part entertainments which centred on the ‘ erotic ’ degradation of women by male clients . |
| 18 | The mechanisms of the upper atmosphere and the deep sea that cause it to spoil so many Larin Christmas times are still unknown ; but there is beguiling evidence that whenever El Nin-o appears in the Pacific , so the monsoon rains in India are perilously sparse , the winters in the continental USA are unusually harsh , and there is a further episode of drought in that wretched quarter of Africa known as the Sahel . |
| 19 | This discovery of our true selves is most strongly expressed in the sayings of Jesus known as ‘ the beatitudes ’ . |
| 20 | Wynkyn de Worde printed Hilton 's Scale at the command of Lady Margaret Beaufort and carefully arranged selections from the Book of Margery Kempe known as A shorte treatyse of contemplacyon . |
| 21 | This sense of self-doubt also had some part in convincing Conservative leaders that neither Britain nor western society could survive another trauma of the seriousness of the First World War and thus , for the only time in history , the party abandoned its usual reliance on strong defences and the balance of power in Europe , adopting a policy towards Nazi Germany known as appeasement . |
| 22 | Such dedication manifested itself not only among professional religious like the Dominican nuns in the Rhineland known for their mystical experience , or Franciscan tertiaries like Angela of Foligno , who was converted after her marriage and , once a widow , devoted her life to God , but among lay women in the Low Countries and Germany known as Beguines . |
| 23 | In addition Harthill sewage works operated by Strathclyde Region discharges to the How Burn a headwater tributary of the Almond ( part of Harthill known as Greenrigg is in Lothian Region ) . |
| 24 | One of the 40 or 50 burial urns survived in the ‘ closet of rarities ’ at Lambeth known as Tradescant 's Ark , which in 1682 formed the basis of Elias Ashmole 's bequest to the University of Oxford ( Daniel 1981 , p. 42 ) . |
| 25 | In 1851 the Nevills acquired , in addition to their London house , an estate in Sussex known as Dangstein , with a large neo-Grecian mansion , built in the 1830s . |
| 26 | ‘ They say he 's in Australia disguised as a kangaroo . ’ |
| 27 | How is God known as that which transcends the world ? |
| 28 | Auditions had been held , and Peter Tomlinson and Bob Pierson chosen as the presenters . |
| 29 | The Ilo-Puerto Suárez link would help trade with Brazil , Paraguay and Argentina , with Ilo seen as the launching-pad for exports to the Pacific Rim countries . |
| 30 | His home , a very well disposed , if modest , semi-detached residence in the affluent part of Montreal known as Westmount , backed on to a park overlooking the city and the mighty St. Lawrence River and port . |