Example sentences of "[is] know as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A form of interactive access to databases which is having a major impact in multimedia design is know as hypertext . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's known as Ghost of the Tree , ’ Wynne-Jones whispered . |
| 3 | These people are from the Gloucester Centre for Harmony , and they 're indulging in what 's known as tree healing . |
| 4 | Today , it 's known as Lolly 's Lagoon because she saw it first . |
| 5 | Some ponds and lakes , too , are richer in life than might be expected ; and sometimes , indeed — when polluted — become too rich for their own good ( this is known as eutrophication ; see p.117 ) . |
| 6 | This process is known as EUTROPHICATION and has been observed in several places in the UK in the past . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This method of making compost in the field is known as sheet composting , a variation of which may be achieved after a cereal crop by chopping the straw and stubble ( using a forage harvester with delivery spout removed ) behind the combine , spreading slurry , and then rotovating the mixture into the top soil . |
| 9 | The dark side of this revolution is known as alienation , as the technical and penetration frontiers are pushed forward , so the flood of information surges and the fragile bonds between human beings are drowned in the torrent of words and images . |
| 10 | The process by which cells have their fate fixed is known as determination . |
| 11 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 12 | The quality of being meaningful and unified , which the second passage has but the first passage lacks , is known as coherence . |
| 13 | This process is known as photolysis . |
| 14 | A loud juddering sound occurring when a tap is turned off or a ball-valve shuts is known as water hammer . |
| 15 | But there is another type of risk affecting corporate bonds that has recently come to prominence and is known as event risk ( or restructuring risk ) . |
| 16 | This is what is known as rebound hypoglycaemia . |
| 17 | It happens that my father is one of the top people in what is known as Work Study . |
| 18 | The ratio of fixed interest debt to shareholder 's capital plus the debt is known as gearing , or leverage or debt ratio . |
| 19 | The ratio of fixed interest debt to shareholder 's capital plus the debt is known as gearing , or leverage or debt ratio . |
| 20 | This is known as cataphora , and it is a favourite opening device of authors who begin stories and novels with an unidentified he or she , both enticing us to look further , and plunging us into the middle of a situation as though we already knew what was going on . |
| 21 | Now to place this manor and house , first I believe the only place this could have been is Upper Haillng , and the house is now what is known as Court Farm , the present residence of Mr Peter Lingham . |
| 22 | The purpose of these names is to establish what is known as brand identity . |
| 23 | This is known as matrix addressing . |
| 24 | It is known as matrix modelling because it assumes that the price of a bond is made up from each component of relative value taken separately . |
| 25 | Infection inside the bladder is known as cystitis . |
| 26 | The deposit , which is characterised by a great dominance of silt-sized particles , is known as loess . |
| 27 | The lack of left-right symmetry is known as parity violation . |
| 28 | The new product was tested in 1988 and launched in the UK in 1989 and has since been launched in Ireland , Australia and in Canada and the USA , where it is known as Pub Draught Guinness . |
| 29 | This state is known as Apathy . |
| 30 | It is known as surface dyslexia ( Marshall and Newcombe , 1973 ; Coltheart , Masterson , Byng , Prior and Riddoch , 1983 ; Patterson , Marshall and Coltheart , 1985 ) . |