Example sentences of "[noun] know as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reductivist arguments can be supported by the form of moral reasoning known as utilitarianism . |
| 2 | other experiments will look at the effects of further rises in reactor temperature and at an effect known as rod ‘ candling . ’ |
| 3 | Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 6 | Recent developments in a field of study known as Chaos Theory has focused attention on elements in natural shapes called ‘ fractals ’ . |
| 7 | As I have elaborated elsewhere , the early agricultural divine monarchies seem to recapitulate , albeit in purely cultural forms , the natural conditions of that primeval existence : for instance , an economy based on grains ( domesticated rather than wild ) , a social structure centred around one dominant , tyrannous male and his harem ( now a human state rather than a primate group ) , and — at least in the case of some ancient Egyptian dynasties — even the recruitment of apprentice heirs-apparent ( the institution known as coregency ) . |
| 8 | This narrowing or furring up of the arteries can slow down the flow of the blood to your heart ( giving rise to the condition known as angina ) or even cut off the supply completely , at which point a heart attack then occurs . |
| 9 | He had a condition known as hypomania , which makes the sufferer erratic , irrational and hyperactive . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a condition known as shock , ’ she informed him tightly . |
| 11 | Repeated small infarctions within the microcirculation of the spleen ultimately result in its destruction — a condition known as autosplenectomy . |
| 12 | The commonest RSI is a condition known as tenosynovitis , or ‘ teno ’ to its many victims . |
| 13 | Other parasitic insects which may attack the vine are pyralis ( the larvae of the meal-moth which feeds on young shoots and leaves ) ; altise ( a beetle which feeds on the leaves ) ; phyptus vitis ( a microscopic mite which attacks leaves , flowers and grapes , rendering a condition known as erinosis , first recognised by red leaf blisters which gradually turn yellow ) and cochenilles ( various bugs which feed on the sap , weakening the vine ) . |
| 14 | The condition known as cretinism is caused by defects of the thyroid gland , also caused by the absence of the correct enzymes . |
| 15 | SABRE Phase 11 is now in almost every store and introduces the use of computer-calculated stock known as inventory . |
| 16 | The first trial , predating expert systems proper , was an aid known as Computer Aided Fault Finding Equipment ( CAFFE ) . |
| 17 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 18 | ‘ Listening station five reports : The parasite known as Doctor was then heard to say ‘ Not any more . |
| 19 | Researchers in Wales have linked a stomach bug known as campylobacter jejuni , with bird attacks on milk bottles . |
| 20 | The climatic perturbations known as alminio seemed to occur every two to ten years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A duty , payable in meal for having grain ground at the local mill known as multure is listed in the earliest known rental of Islay , which is dated 1626 . |
| 23 | At Agen on the Garonne , not far from Toulouse , lay the relics of a very shadowy Roman martyr known as Faith or Foy . |
| 24 | The handwriting in this case is of a type known as batarde , i.e. mongrel or mixed in style . |
| 25 | Some of these rock types are quite exotic — for example the rare porcellanite from Northern Ireland — whereas others , such as the granite type known as dolerite , occur in many different areas of upland Britain including Wales . |
| 26 | Soon after war broke out in 1914 he was asked to join ID 25 , the department of naval intelligence known as Room 40 , as a cryptographer . |
| 27 | Negligence is part of an area of law known as tort . |
| 28 | The city not only has its own traditional dolphin stew , but also a dish known as iruka kuroshioboshi , dried dolphin meat cured to the consistency of leather . |
| 29 | The immediate effect was on the two housing areas known as East and West Ropery Banks ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1976 , 1978c ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |