Example sentences of "became know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1786 the city 's administrative offices were transferred to the Palazzo del Carmagnoli — which instantly became know as the Broletto Nuovissino , the very new Broletto ! |
| 2 | When the facts became known through contact established with the Curator of the New Mills Heritage Centre , some action was taken and all Mackie Memorial Library books that could be found in local bookshops were bought back by the Derbyshire authorities . |
| 3 | As Cooke 's name became known through his huge output of taxonomic works , especially the two-volume Handbook of British Fungi ( 1871 ) and the journal Grevillea , which he founded in 1875 and edited himself , he entered into a vast correspondence with distinguished mycologists world-wide . |
| 4 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 5 | At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum . |
| 6 | In September 1976 when — as this week — Blackpool 's Winter Gardens played host to a government in turmoil , James Callaghan and Denis Healey had to confront what became known as the IMF crisis . |
| 7 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 8 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 9 | Then it spread to Australia , where it became known as kangaroo paw ! |
| 10 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
| 11 | It shows Professor Smith 's anger at Lord Young 's apparent refusal then to agree to what later became known as the £38 million sweeteners — accusing him of altering terms to ‘ British Aerospace 's disadvantage ’ and of putting forward points ‘ which neither I nor my advisers can understand ’ . |
| 12 | FLORENCE , the city state of Michelangelo and Leonardo , also nurtured a phenomenon that was equally lasting : the system of production and trade that in a more developed form became known as capitalism . |
| 13 | The Edomites ' new territory became known as Idumaea . |
| 14 | Friday 31 July 1925 henceforth became known as ‘ Red Friday ’ . |
| 15 | Baldwin fought what became known as a ‘ Safety First ’ campaign . |
| 16 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 17 | Crude murals on a hoarding illustrated the legend of the hero Cuchulain , who killed a fearsome hound and then himself became known as the Hound of Ulster . |
| 18 | The building became known as London 's Nonconformist Cathedral ; unlike the Tabernacle , the Temple was elaborately furnished with stained glass windows and a tower of 145 feet in the ‘ Italian style ’ . |
| 19 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 20 | Voters were unimpressed by this pre-echo of what a decade later became known as ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ , and in 1974 Labour suffered the largest drop in any opposition party 's share of the vote since Britain became a democracy . |
| 21 | At the culmination of what became known as the ‘ Eggwina ’ crisis , she infuriated egg producers by claiming that most British egg production was infected by salmonella . |
| 22 | The Necropolis , Ramshorn , Gorbals , and Cathcart burial grounds became known as ‘ Doctor 's Larders ’ , and the citizens of Glasgow went in terror of students and paid ‘ corpse-baggers ’ disturbing their eternal rest . |
| 23 | In July 1839 , Spalding travelled to the village of Tuekakas — who became known as Old Joseph — in the beautiful Wallowa valley . |
| 24 | Some evidence that this must have happened along the Chiswick banks of the river , was uncovered during the construction of the London & South Western railway line , in the nineteenth century , which involved the need to make a deep cutting not far from what became known as Gunnersbury Station . |
| 25 | The Romans called their settlement ‘ Londinium ’ which , in due course of time , became known as London . |
| 26 | That road must have passed close to the place now called Chiswick , but keeping well north of the river swamps , probably along the northern boundary of the area which subsequently became known as Turnham Green . |
| 27 | The Danish invasion took place in A.D. 787 , and one Danish ruler , called Egbert , succeeded as King of Wessex , in A.D. 802 ; becoming overlord of Cornwall and Devonshire in 815 ; then King of Kent in 825 , and became known as King of the English , in 829 . |
| 28 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 29 | He copied Montfort 's precedent by summoning national assemblies which became known as ‘ Parliaments ’ , although only consultative , with absolute power remaining with the King . |
| 30 | A Peasants ' Revolt — the workers of Kent and Essex — led by Walter the tiler ( who became known as Wat Tyler ) , occurred in 1381 , in which they refused to pay the Poll Tax , and they gathered together to sweep in revolt into London , Although only a lad , Richard II subdued the revolt . |