Example sentences of "[is] known [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I challenge Dr McNab to justify his so-called remedies which fly in the face of all that 's known about the pathology of this disease . " |
| 2 | But even with everything that 's known about the risks from AIDS , James is convinced withdrawal of the pharmacy service will encourage some addicts to take risks . |
| 3 | If you go deeper through the water column you 'll come to a depth where all of the calcium carbonate has dissolved and that 's known as the carbonate compensation depth , or C C D the carbonate compensation depth . |
| 4 | ‘ She said the heroin comes in by what 's known as the Balkans route . |
| 5 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's known as the Bishop 's door . |
| 7 | The whole of what 's known as the Corbet block was completely destroyed . |
| 8 | That 's known as the nursery room . |
| 9 | Trippy constantly sniffed , a bad case of druggie pneumonia as it 's known on the street . |
| 10 | PortKnox , or LapSecure , as it 's known in the States , gives you a very high level of protection . |
| 11 | Ol' Turry 's back and this time there 'll be trouble , 'coz he 's what 's known in the trade as a fruit-and-nut case ( he needs a check-up from the neck up ) . |
| 12 | Shaven-headed , Raybanned and with a wardrobe which makes Giorgio Armani look as though he spends far too much time in C & A , he 's known in the agency as The Birdman of |
| 13 | It 's known in the City as the Hemline Index ( as opposed to the usual measure of the top 100 companies ' shares , the FTSE 100 ) . |
| 14 | David Morgan 's known in the trade as Cone Man . |
| 15 | You know how important it is , a club 's known by the quality of its fourth side . |
| 16 | With its skirt-shaped cups and narrow petals , this narcissus is known as the hoop petticoat daffodil . |
| 17 | The Atlantic coast of Belle-Ile is known as the Cote Sauvage , and in most places is sufficiently savage to deter any invader . |
| 18 | One of the most brutal of the Khmer Rouge commanders , he is known as the ‘ Butcher of Kampuchea ’ for the killings he ordered in the south-west from 1975 to 1978 . |
| 19 | Saatchi has sold exclusively through a dealer called Larry Gagosian , well known in New York as a ruthless specialist in what is known as the secondary market . |
| 20 | As an employer , you need to pay NI contributions for those employees aged 16 or over , who earn at or above what is known as the lower earnings limit , which stands at £52 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 21 | Employees ' NI contributions are paid on earnings up to and including what is known as the upper earnings limit , which is £390 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 22 | This air is known as the ‘ reek ’ . |
| 23 | The Retail Consortium , which lobbied the government hard for the abolition of what is known as the ‘ no discrimination ’ clause in agreements between banks and shopkeepers , was delighted . |
| 24 | This idea is known as the Coase theorem . |
| 25 | A YEAR after the European Community 's central-bank governors produced what is known as the Delors report on economic and monetary union , the European Commission has at last written its own credo on EMU . |
| 26 | In America this ploy is known as the California syndrome , after the hypocrites who invented out-of-state nuclear power . |
| 27 | I have since learnt that this kind of treatment is known as the ‘ water torture ’ in Spanish prisons . |
| 28 | This is known as the roller and slab theorem . |
| 29 | The ratio of OF to OA is known as the eccentricity . |
| 30 | The cut fell on 145 , one over par , and consequently 63 of the original field of 83 made it under what is known as the ‘ 10-stroke rule ’ — anyone who is within 10 shots of the leader , on the theoretical grounds that it is still possible to win from there . |