Example sentences of "[was/were] know simply [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arboretum was known simply as the Park , and was open to the public . |
| 2 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 3 | IN THE 19th century , cancer of the cervix was so common and so deadly that it was known simply as ‘ the woman 's disease ’ . |
| 4 | And yet at street level in Ireland for many years , the same author was known simply as ‘ the man who writes dirty books ’ , a consequence of his infamous collusion with church and State in the mid-1960s when his second novel ‘ The Dark ’ was banned , allegedly because of suggestions of homosexuality in the characters of the father and priest , as well as the use of the word ‘ fuck ’ and an explicit scene of masturbation . |
| 5 | To generations of Edinburgh folk it was known simply as ‘ The Store ’ . |
| 6 | Nobody could tell me its correct name and it was known simply by the Greek equivalent of ‘ night-bloom ’ . |