Example sentences of "of [pron] be known as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It contains a number of impurities the sum of which are known as water hardness salts .
2 He conducted research into how artefacts gradually develop over a period of time , the study of which is known as typology .
3 The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have .
4 The second part of the project extends previous studies by Cohen and Faulkner of what is known as Reality Monitoring .
5 The selection of what are known as quince rootstocks by fruit researchers earlier this century changed the situation by bringing about a degree of control of the vigour of the grafted trees .
6 Built entirely of black glass , it marked the beginning of what was known as Death Row , a stretch of downtown First Avenue where most of the big funeral parlours had their offices .
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