Example sentences of "[noun] [is] known [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But he was by no means alone in Britain , for a combined silversmith and jeweller 's stock is known at the extensive settlement of Snettisham in Norfolk .
2 Genetics deals with how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring and a great deal is known about the mechanisms governing this process .
3 As discussed in Chapter 3 , a good deal is known about the circumstances associated with suicide attempts .
4 Not a great deal is known about the numbers of these children who end up in remarriages , but Burgoyne and Clark ( 1982 ) estimate that 7 per cent of all children under 17 live with a step-parent .
5 As we have already seen above , in countries like the UK , West Germany , Singapore ( etc ) a good deal is known about the population structure , and records are regularly updated by government agencies and professional , industrial and trade associations .
6 The left hand side is known as the debit ( entry for value coming in ) and the right hand side the credit ( entry for value going out ) .
7 While it might look a bit strange , even antiquated , to anyone who has only ever thought of guitar tuners as pocket sized oblong boxes with LEDs or a needle and a retail price of around forty quid , the Peterson 's ability to accurately tune any musical instrument is known throughout the music industry .
8 The maximum value of static torque is known as the " peak static torque " .
9 This rule is known as the Laporte selection rule .
10 This wider effect is known as the Southern Oscillation .
11 This effect is known as the money ( or bank ) multiplier .
12 The machine with a lace carriage is known as the KL830 .
13 This AL term is known as the regular fluctuation conductivity , which is due to the direct acceleration of the fluctuation-induced superconducting pairs of quasiparticles .
14 The Chesapeake is known as the ‘ queen of the nation 's estuaries ’ .
15 This figure is known as the ‘ unit cost ’ , and is arrived at simply by dividing the total amount spent on a service ( e.g. nursery schools ) by the number of children using it ( expressed as ‘ full-time equivalents ’ , so that two part-time children would count as one full-time equivalent ) .
16 The right hand side of this equation is known as the net marginal revenue , the net increase in wealth before accounting for the transfer-in price .
17 This fundamental equation is known as the metric equation .
18 So the loch is known as the Hush Loch .
19 I 'll even be doing the high kicks Frankie is known throughout the entertainment business as an energetic performer using dance routines and high kicks .
20 This drawing is known as the gold tranche ( now called the ‘ reserve tranche ’ ) because it is equivalent to the contribution of gold from the member country under previous quota arrangements .
21 You know how important it is , a club 's known by the quality of its fourth side .
22 His work is known throughout the world .
23 The crossbow is known in the Empire but is not highly favoured .
24 The ratio of OF to OA is known as the eccentricity .
25 In 948 an attempt by Venice to conquer Ragusa was repulsed , according to legend , with the miraculous help of St Blaise ( San Biagio ; Sveti Vlaho ) , who in England is known as the patron saint of woolcombers .
26 The site where it is attached to the ovary is known as the animal pole and the other end the vegetal pole .
27 All religions use what in classical theology is known as the via negativa — the negative way of speaking about the centre of religious worship or meditation .
28 Alloa , with a 52-0 victory over Cambuslang , and Livingston , with a 14-13 win against Linlithgow , stay in Division Four but Linlithgow will have to wait for the result of Cartha Queen 's Park 's final match before their fate is known against the already relegated Lismore .
29 One class of glutamate receptor is known as the NMDA receptor , because the effects of glutamate can be mimicked by injection of the chemically similar substance N-methyl-D-aspartic acid .
30 This correspondence is known as the Neugebauer-Kramer involution .
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