Example sentences of "was to be known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money . |
| 2 | Originally the depot was to be known as Kirby Hall , in recognition of its dual role as an exhibition hall . |
| 3 | The church was to be known as St Theresa 's ( The Little Flower ) . |
| 4 | Ever afterwards , Malekith was to be known as the Witch King . |
| 5 | This was a kind of down-payment toward the construction costs of a new psychiatric unit in Torbay General Hospital , which was to be known as the Edith Morgan Centre , after the founder of the ‘ Good Practices in Mental Health ’ organization . |
| 6 | For countries not governed by the USA regulations , the same airframe was to be known as the " Falcon 40 " . |
| 7 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 8 | The system of control established by Plowden was to be known as the PESC system , since the Public Expenditure Survey Committee was to be its centrepiece . |
| 9 | The new territory , which was to be carved from the eastern reaches of the vast Northwest Territories and would stretch from the Manitoba border to the North Pole , was to be known as Nunavut , an Eskimo term meaning " our land " . |
| 10 | On Oct. 1 it had been reported that the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) was to be known as the National Council of the Slovak Republic . |
| 11 | Henceforth , it was to be known as " el Valle de los Caídos " — the Valley of the Fallen . |
| 12 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |