Example sentences of "[noun prp] known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that the picture by Rembrandt known as ‘ The Night Watch ’ is not a night watch , but a scene taking place in full daylight . |
| 2 | The opera is newly translated by Jeremy Sams whose recent translation of L'Etoile had audiences rocking with laughter , and designed by Sue Blane known for her outrageous costumes in the wacky cult opera The Love For Three Oranges . |
| 3 | Béarn comes between the Basque country to the west and the part of the central Pyrenees known as Bigorre to the east . |
| 4 | the desolate home of Miss Havisham for which CD 's original was the picturesque old Elizabethan mansion in Rochester known as Restoration House in honour of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , the king having lodged there for one night en route for London . |
| 5 | By this time , Joan had married Edward Young , an architect in Lulling known to the Bassetts since childhood , and the young couple had lived in the house ever since . |
| 6 | Had Kenneth Grahame known about seaplanes when he wrote Wind in the Willows that is what Toad would have said . |
| 7 | Had Darwin known about this you see Darwin could have turned on his critics and said , look , in the first place you 're quite wrong about genetics , there is no or at least there does n't have to be because mutations occur as errors or changes in the base sequences in , in the genetic code . |
| 8 | Mrs Skewton known as , DS 21 et seq . |
| 9 | The Jewish people regarded what we now have as the Old Testament to be the World of God and acknowledged three categories or divisions : ( 1 ) The writings of Moses known as the ’ Pentateuch ’ ( Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers , Deuteronomy ) ; ( 2 ) The Psalms ; ( 3 ) The Prophets . |
| 10 | As the Roman hold on Britain slackened , Picts joined with other Gaelic-speaking incomers from Ireland known as Scotti a word meaning simply pirates . |
| 11 | There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll . |
| 12 | Easily Accessible : Ford House is situated in an area of Devon known as the South Hams — ‘ Hamme ’ is old English for a ‘ sheltered place ’ — and the climate here is particularly kind as the coasts are washed by the Gulf Stream . |
| 13 | About 24 people died on July 22-23 in violence in the industrial area 30 miles south of Johannesburg known as the Vaal Triangle . |
| 14 | Had even Mrs Girdlestone known about it ? |
| 15 | As usual the event will be accompanied by a number of cultural activities including four seminars on collecting and an exhibition dedicated to the restoration of the area of Milan known as the Capitoline of S. Ambrogio . |
| 16 | Luxurious private supper rooms in the West-End known as ‘ the finishes ’ organized part-orgies part entertainments which centred on the ‘ erotic ’ degradation of women by male clients . |
| 17 | The mechanisms of the upper atmosphere and the deep sea that cause it to spoil so many Larin Christmas times are still unknown ; but there is beguiling evidence that whenever El Nin-o appears in the Pacific , so the monsoon rains in India are perilously sparse , the winters in the continental USA are unusually harsh , and there is a further episode of drought in that wretched quarter of Africa known as the Sahel . |
| 18 | Within Carinthia ( itself a province sufficiently remote from the Austria known to the 1920s to seem Ruritanian ) lie the castles of Littain , Hohenem , Varvic , Midian , Reichtenberg and Gath ; the noble heroines make their champions free of such Christian names as Leonie , Olivia and Marya ; pseudonymous villains like Barabbas , ‘ Rose ’ Noble , Pluto and Onon Forecast cast their shadows forward to the works of Ian Fleming and the only truly villainous female glares at her enemies as ‘ Vanity Fayre ’ . |
| 19 | This discovery of our true selves is most strongly expressed in the sayings of Jesus known as ‘ the beatitudes ’ . |
| 20 | Wynkyn de Worde printed Hilton 's Scale at the command of Lady Margaret Beaufort and carefully arranged selections from the Book of Margery Kempe known as A shorte treatyse of contemplacyon . |
| 21 | This sense of self-doubt also had some part in convincing Conservative leaders that neither Britain nor western society could survive another trauma of the seriousness of the First World War and thus , for the only time in history , the party abandoned its usual reliance on strong defences and the balance of power in Europe , adopting a policy towards Nazi Germany known as appeasement . |
| 22 | Such dedication manifested itself not only among professional religious like the Dominican nuns in the Rhineland known for their mystical experience , or Franciscan tertiaries like Angela of Foligno , who was converted after her marriage and , once a widow , devoted her life to God , but among lay women in the Low Countries and Germany known as Beguines . |
| 23 | In addition Harthill sewage works operated by Strathclyde Region discharges to the How Burn a headwater tributary of the Almond ( part of Harthill known as Greenrigg is in Lothian Region ) . |
| 24 | In order to make Victoria known to the people , Conroy would run her around the country on semi-royal tours , after the last of which , in 1835 , she succumbed to typhoid . |
| 25 | One of the 40 or 50 burial urns survived in the ‘ closet of rarities ’ at Lambeth known as Tradescant 's Ark , which in 1682 formed the basis of Elias Ashmole 's bequest to the University of Oxford ( Daniel 1981 , p. 42 ) . |
| 26 | In 1851 the Nevills acquired , in addition to their London house , an estate in Sussex known as Dangstein , with a large neo-Grecian mansion , built in the 1830s . |
| 27 | How is God known through our knowledge of the world ? |
| 28 | How is God known as that which transcends the world ? |
| 29 | What had Paul Shacklebury known about Filmer … same old unanswerable question . |
| 30 | His home , a very well disposed , if modest , semi-detached residence in the affluent part of Montreal known as Westmount , backed on to a park overlooking the city and the mighty St. Lawrence River and port . |