Example sentences of "[noun pl] known as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe . |
| 2 | The small bats known as horseshoe bats have long been known to emit long , fixed-pitch hoots rather than staccato clicks or descending wolf-whistles . |
| 3 | The climatic perturbations known as alminio seemed to occur every two to ten years . |
| 4 | The immediate effect was on the two housing areas known as East and West Ropery Banks ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1976 , 1978c ) . |
| 5 | You can effectively fend off the unsightly fatty areas known as cellulite , or ‘ orange-peel ’ skin by stimulating a healthy blood flow , taking regular exercise , and eating a sensible diet . |
| 6 | It is formed directly from soft tissue ( mesenchyme ) and not by ossification of cartilage and it belongs to the rare class of bones known as membrane bones . |
| 7 | He had visited shanty settlements known as fa las owing to their resemblance , at a distance , to honeycombs . |
| 8 | The fact that Leonard was influenced so deeply by Divan del Tamarir is very suggestive , for it is one of the types of poems known as gacela ( the other is casida ) , a short-rhymed fixed verse-form in Arabic poetry . |
| 9 | Each man was given a large hunting knife and two smaller weapons known as okapi knives . |
| 10 | Wetlands under threat have included a variety of landscapes : swamps of tall reed or reed sweet-grass ; marshes of rush and sedge , which sometimes develop into scrub of willow and bog myrtle ; fens , whose lush vegetation is nourished by alkaline groundwater , and which range from open pools , often the remains of peat cutting , to grazed beds of meadowsweet and iris , grading in turn to the wet woodlands known as alder ‘ carr ’ ; mires , such as the mosses of the North-West , whose deep peatlands support sphagnum moss and heather , scattered with glades of birch , the favourite haunt of nightjars . |
| 11 | The team designed two experimental catalogues known as DOC ( Dewey Online Catalogue ) and SOC ( Subject Online Catalogue ) . |
| 12 | There are a growing number of private investors known as Business angels , and small businesses . |
| 13 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 14 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 15 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 16 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 17 | The conditions known as catatonia and hysteria were once quite common . |
| 18 | At the sides of the pronotum in many Lepidoptera are lobe-like structures known as patagia . |
| 19 | Decision making is split between adjudication officers and officers known as Secretary of State 's representatives . |
| 20 | Before going on to discuss the reforms known as Project 2000 , it might be valuable to describe the recently introduced statutory framework for nursing , midwifery and health visiting as a background to the report . |
| 21 | Only parliamentary consent could allow the King to levy the direct taxes known as fifteenths and tenths or the indirect taxes known as tonnage and poundage . |
| 22 | Rolle also refers to three degrees of love in two earlier treatises known as Ego Dormio and The Commandment both written for a nun in the early stages of religious life ( possibly Margaret Kirkeby ) . |
| 23 | Coats of arms are described according to rules known as blazon , a term which when used as a noun is a description in words of a coat and , when as the verb ‘ ( to ) blazon ’ , the act of so describing . |
| 24 | Although parts of the karst are barren and treeless , there are other areas where a covering of marls and sandstones known as flysch , derived from the deposits of the bed of an Eocene sea , provides the basis for surface drainage and soils . |
| 25 | He is one of a group of seven young Muslim activists in Brebes , Central Java , convicted on charges arising from their involvement in Muslim groups known as usroh , aiming to deepen awareness of Islamic teachings . |
| 26 | Proteins consist of chains of sub-units known as amino acids , each of which contains carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , and nitrogen . |
| 27 | A small proportion of dolphin meat is salted , dried , and sold as long strips known as muchame , which was originally introduced by Italian immigrants . |
| 28 | In low-viscosity lavas features known as lava levees may also develop . |
| 29 | Such blockages cause pains known as angina , and in severe cases can lead to a heart attack . |
| 30 | The drawing of boundaries is the responsibility of bodies known as boundary commissions : there is a commission each for England , Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland . |