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

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1 These colourful yarns , known as heather effects , are already popular and the demand is expected to increase .
2 For this reason , computers are programmed in various subsets of English known as computer languages .
3 The first trial , predating expert systems proper , was an aid known as Computer Aided Fault Finding Equipment ( CAFFE ) .
4 Thus four tranches are available after the reserve tranche has been utilized , each known as credit tranches .
5 Initial decisions on entitlement were made by employees of the Board of Trade known as insurance officers .
6 Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday .
7 This is known as matrix addressing .
8 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 .
9 This state is known as Apathy .
10 The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep .
11 It was not to be so ; their Taylor Cup became the Autumn Foursomes — sometimes known as Winter Foursomes — and their Palmer Cup became the Medal Winners ' Trophy .
12 This way needed no search : the substance later known as allopurinol had already been synthesized by Hitchings and his colleagues , and it inhibited the enzyme xanthine oxidase ( which converts xanthine to uric acid and mercaptopurine to thio-uric acid ) .
13 As we shall discuss later , this is detectable through a screening technique known as amniocentesis , but this is only after the child has been conceived .
14 Aphrosyne Taylor-Agathangelou , now more commonly known as Folly Taylor , emerged from the Rose Bowl — from her Rose Bowl — in a daze of excited speculation .
15 In some parts of the world , Anna had discovered , this mystical form of intercourse was known as carezza .
16 Bacteria and blue-green algae are chemically very similar , both being of the procaryotic kind , and are often known as cyanobacteria .
17 Using a technique known as symbol recirculation , Dyer shows that distributed symbol representations can be learned through recurrent networks that will generate expectations concerning words that will occur next in tasks such as script-learning and comprehension .
18 The thinnest crusts are known as desert varnish .
19 After much transatlantic exchange of information , the synthesis and study of more than 300 compounds , and collaboration with physicians in many parts of Africa and Asia , the drug christened ‘ Daraprim ’ and later known as pyrimethamine emerged in 1952 as an antimalarial of considerable importance .
20 Auckland Park , he said , was now known as Sandshoe Alley because everyone up there was on his uppers .
21 Repeated small infarctions within the microcirculation of the spleen ultimately result in its destruction — a condition known as autosplenectomy .
22 The main national network , which became known as Idhaa ya Kiswahili ( ‘ The Swahili Service ’ ) , had as one of its main aims ‘ informing and educating public opinion ’ .
23 A light covering of gas is known as blanket pressure , a heavier pressure used to force the beer to the bar is known as top pressure .
24 Wet moorlands — more correctly known as blanket bogs — often vegetated with a heather/cotton grass/cross-leaved heath or purple moor grass/deer sedge plant community , are not usually amenable to agricultural development on a significant scale .
25 In this system , which is sometimes known as absorption costing , a budget is produced in which all overheads are allocated to the activities associated with them .
26 In this system , which is sometimes known as absorption costing , a budget is produced in which all overheads are allocated to the activities associated with them .
27 GEORGE WENDT , better known as Norm , barfly supreme in Cheers , joined together with the reformed MADNESS for the pilot of new music programme Spunk recently .
28 However , you really need the camcorder feature known as exposure lock to make this effect work properly .
29 The purpose of these names is to establish what is known as brand identity .
30 These wolf-whistle cries are known as frequency modulated ( FM ) .
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