Example sentences of "[been] known [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 2 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |
| 3 | from Birmingham says hanging upside down has always been known as a cure in the Far East and it does work . |
| 4 | Mr Chaskalson has long been known as a human-rights lawyer defending people charged under South Africa 's apartheid and terrorism laws . |
| 5 | Samuel Irving — ‘ Si ’ — Newhouse jr , second-generation New York billionaire , had long been known as a collector of modern American art , but his November 1988 purchase of Jasper John 's False Start propelled him into the public consciousness . |
| 6 | Its colour used to range from yellowish or tawny to dark red , but the red was always preferred and the breed is now characteristically ‘ ruby red ’ — a dark but bright blood colour — and it has long been known as the Ruby of the West . |
| 7 | Walsh has been known as the demon bowler , but to the Gloucestershire team , who kknow hin as Shortie , he 's more often been their saviour . |
| 8 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 9 | Six months later Michele gave Lucia a ring , which has always been known as the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ For the size of the school , we have done some remarkable things , ’ added the 47-year-old , who has something musical in the pipeline every term at the school which , over the years , has variously been known as the North of England Agricultural School , Ayton School , The Friends School , Great Ayton , and recently reverted to Ayton School . |
| 11 | Had n't it always been known as the centre of the Western World ? |
| 12 | But so far no one has provided a satisfactory answer to why , for generations , the Cumberland has inevitably been known as the Blood Kit . |
| 13 | It was made explicit by the inclusion in those Conventions of the famous provision in the Preamble which has been known as the Martens clause . |
| 14 | Steeped in a fairytale atmosphere , the fishing villages of Monterosso , Vernazza , Corniglia , Manarola and Riomaggiore have been known as the Cinque Terre or ‘ Five lands ’ since medieval times and are laced together by an intricate coastal path . |
| 15 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 16 | Kampuchea had been known as the Kingdom of Cambodia prior to 1970 , as the Khmer Republic between 1970-75 and as Democratic Kampuchea from 1976-79 . |
| 17 | It had previously been known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) . |
| 18 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 19 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 20 | It has even been known for a company to respond to a request for information six weeks after the initial query and then to complain that their product had been left out ! |
| 21 | The problem of toxics and blue-green algae had been known for a century in countries like Australia and the US where it occurred naturally . |
| 22 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 23 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 24 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 25 | None of these facts , Simone pointed out , could have been known to the healer she consulted in Canterbury . |
| 26 | Parliament has conferred more freedom from restraint on trade unions than has ever been known to the law before . |
| 27 | The Express dubs the Grant-Livingstone team the ‘ nightmare ticket ’ , and reminds us that Grant has sometimes been known to the tabloids as ‘ Barmy Bernie ’ . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) The estate of a partner who dies , or who becomes bankrupt , or of a partner who , not having been known to the person dealing with the firm to be a partner , retires from the firm , is not liable for partnership debts contracted after the date of the death , bankruptcy , or retirement respectively . |
| 29 | It has been known to the West since the 17th century . |
| 30 | This was obviously untrue since Blake's-arrest had been known to the Russians for several weeks . |