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 ) . |