Example sentences of "[vb past] to be known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Divided up into three groupings , the A , B , and C special constabularies , according to diminishing power , responsibility , and time commitment , the force was soon cut down to class B only and these came to be known as the ‘ B Specials ’ , a thoroughly armed , militant , semi-private , and sectarian army . |
| 2 | the values of communitas are strikingly present in the literature and behaviour of what came to be known as the ‘ beat generation ’ , who were succeeded by the ‘ hippies ’ … [ and who ] opt out of the status-bound social order and acquire the stigmata of the lowly … |
| 3 | In Canada it came to be known as ‘ The 10 Lost Years ’ , which were devastating for those on the prairies and very difficult for those in the cities . |
| 4 | The impression which was made upon the British by what came to be known as the Canadian model was correspondingly deep and powerful . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | These came to be known as ‘ Hans Sloane plants ’ , although he died before their reproduction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Humphrey Austin leased the mill , but in 1806 he bought what came to be known as New Mills . |
| 11 | The only safe definition is negative : it is a school which admits pupils of all academic standards and without a test or assessment of ability ( save in so far as that may be used to secure what came to be known as ‘ a balanced intake ’ ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It was when the friend of the family , Donald Templeton , the trusted and valued doctor who attended both Farr and his wife , came to call that the plans of the man who came to be known as the Wimbledon poisoner came badly unstuck . |
| 13 | It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies . |
| 14 | IN 1815 Sir Humphry Davy , later to become president of the Royal society , invented what came to be known as the Davy miner 's safety lamp . |
| 15 | It was Samuel Heinicke who pioneered the pure oral system of teaching the deaf in Germany with the foundation of his school in 1760 , a method of teaching which has persisted in that country ever since and which in the nineteenth century came to be known as the ‘ German System ’ . |
| 16 | People soon took sides either for or against what came to be known as the Council 's ‘ green belt ’ or ‘ anti-dispersal ’ policy . |
| 17 | She introduced soft blues , and a colour that came to be known as de Chavigny grey : the rooms , understated and severe , were the perfect backdrop for the jewellery and the silver . |
| 18 | Whether on purpose or by mistake , Kimberly was exchanged for the baby who came to be known as Arlena Twigg . |
| 19 | The women decided that matters had to change , and , over the course of time , instituted what came to be known as the Courts of Love . |
| 20 | The people and Government of Mexico take pride in supporting what came to be known as ‘ The Declaration Of Stockholm , ’ a key component of which called for declaring the 5th June World Environment Day . |
| 21 | After winning an amateur talent contest in Chicago at the age of 15 , the woman who came to be known as the Queen Of The Blues spent the next few years singing in low-life nightclubs , occasionally supplementing her meagre income by cleaning lavatories . |
| 22 | While they acknowledge that Alexander 's Macedonia was indeed an Hellenic culture which in turn extended Hellenic influence to much of Europe and Asia , they maintain that after the seventh century AD , what came to be known as Macedonia had an important Slavic component . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | France simply refused thereafter to attend any further meetings of the Council of Ministers , provoking what came to be known as the ‘ empty chair ’ crisis . |
| 25 | Thus they came to be known as Dark Elves . |
| 26 | This system was subsequently adopted as standard in UK registered aircraft and came to be known as the ‘ hot mike ’ system . |
| 27 | Journalists christened his daily briefings ‘ the Falt follies ’ , a self-conscious reference to the American briefings in Vietnam which came to be known as ‘ the five o'clock follies ’ . |
| 28 | They made the Navigation Acts effective ; in the colonies the legislation came to be known as ‘ the Acts of Trade ’ , which expressed rather well the way that , while the Acts ' main importance to England lay in their encouragement to shipping , their main impact on the colonies came in the way they affected the pattern of trade that was developing . |
| 29 | On balance the trading aspects of what came to be known as the Old Colonial System probably favoured England more than the colonies , though the colonial monopoly of English markets was a substantial counterweight to English monopoly of colonial trade . |
| 30 | Consequently the policy of expanding and then contracting demand , which came to be known as ‘ stop — go ’ , was a result of the direct conflict between the employment and balance of payments objectives since control over the level of aggregate demand was relied upon in order to achieve both goals . |