Example sentences of "[pron] be known as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It contains a number of impurities the sum of which are known as water hardness salts .
2 This was n't the sort of international work done in the European branch of security services , which is known as Section A. But it was glamorous enough to keep Dirk Coetzee happy for a while .
3 He was trying to measure star distances by the method which is known as parallax .
4 He conducted research into how artefacts gradually develop over a period of time , the study of which is known as typology .
5 And then at a certain point she felt , and we felt , that Madam was n't quite enough ; and so just now , anyway , she was known as Madame , and no one in The Bar ever addressed her as anything else .
6 Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no. 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No. 10 .
7 She was later informed by Annabel that she was known as Body Smell because she had to empty the slops into the cesspit .
8 They are known as pencil lengtheners and are made in Germany .
9 In South America they are known as army ants , in Africa as drivers .
10 They were known as teddy boys or teds .
11 It 's known as Ghost of the Tree , ’ Wynne-Jones whispered .
12 Today , it 's known as Lolly 's Lagoon because she saw it first .
13 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 .
14 Thus where a business sells another business something which is a taxable supply , the VAT which that business charges on it is known as output tax .
15 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 .
16 It is known as surface dyslexia ( Marshall and Newcombe , 1973 ; Coltheart , Masterson , Byng , Prior and Riddoch , 1983 ; Patterson , Marshall and Coltheart , 1985 ) .
17 In southern France , where it is known as pistou , it is often an accompaniment to roast lamb .
18 Dame Gillian Brown thanked the speakers with great enthusiasm , congratulated the Principal on ensuring the succession , and also thanked Patricia Hutchinson and Mary Keen for a successful meeting , and the University Womens ' Club ( worth joining even if it is known as Pussy Cat Hall by my irreverent 88 year old cousin , a St. Hugh 's gal ) gave us rather a good tea .
19 He is known as Belly , it 's not difficult to see why .
20 ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae .
21 When you were at the top , it was known as delegation of responsibility .
22 It had been built for Mr King 's grandfather in the days when he was known as Collector of Mails .
23 I remember there was one fellow , er an Englishman , he was known as Potato Jones .
24 Er , and he he used to run he used to run food to er the in er in this in this boat , a fellow named Potato Jones , I do n't know why he was known as Potato Jones ,
25 The structure of the igfet leads to what are known as surface states .
26 In the early days of cable , manual signalling was employed , using what are known as cable code signalling ( Fig. 3 . ) .
27 And , of course , talk of cost must never overlook what are known as opportunity costs : time , effort , and money spent on one thing necessarily means a lost opportunity to spend them on something else , which may be of just as much value .
28 Some tile ranges still include what are known as insert tiles — tiles carrying moulded bathroom accessories such as soap dishes and toilet roll holders , though these are not as common or as popular as they once were .
29 The selection of what are known as quince rootstocks by fruit researchers earlier this century changed the situation by bringing about a degree of control of the vigour of the grafted trees .
30 If , however , faulting occurs across a gullied terrain the resulting offsetting of truncated gullies produces what are known as shutter ridges ( Fig. 3.35 ) .
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