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

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1 It works in a totally different way from conventional medicine , which is known to Homoeopathic practitioners as Allopathy .
2 Comprehensive evaluation of company performance over these broader activities is not available , but the little which is known about individual companies suggests that financial objectives were more important than they might appear on the surface .
3 In particular the branch of geometry which studies any smooth curved surface , which is known as differential geometry , has been applied with great success and has produced both new insights into correct statistical theory and has also produced many important new results .
4 Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time .
5 It 's known as Fat Albert after a comic strip character .
6 Fundamental analysis is also known as investment analysis in the UK , while in the USA it is known as financial analysis or securities analysis .
7 This phenomenon also arises in the field of insurance where it is known as adverse selection .
8 More commonly , however , it is known as Absolute Idealism .
9 This treatment may be given by mouth ( when it is known as oral rehydration therapy or ORT ) or directly into the bloodstream in more serious cases .
10 This pattern of acquired dyslexia is also seen : it is known as phonological dyslexia .
11 It is known from other work that economic and political attitudes and actions are channelled by the individual 's requirement for personal esteem and social approval .
12 It is known from Egyptian history that , from 20 AD , a census of householders was taken every fourteen years .
13 Husameddin , however , writes that it was in Amasya , not Aksaray , that Molla Fenari studied with Cemaleddin Aksarayi , saying that it is known from several documents that Cemaleddin Aksarayi was , between 751 and 782 [ sic ] ( 1350–1 to 1380–1 ) , muderris in Amasya and kazasker under the emir of Amasya , Hajji Shadgeldi .
14 However , it is known from ileal intubation studies that acarbose may induce carbohydrate malabsorption of up to 50% of the ingested carbohydrate , and that glucose absorption is least efficient from the most rapidly moving front of an ingested bolus of glucose .
15 It is known from occupational medicine , that exposure to two chemicals at once can be far more damaging than being exposed to each chemical individually .
16 It is known by many names : the SEM , the Internal Market , the 1992 Programme .
17 Yes its Orange Walk season , when we are invited to rejoice in celebrating the victory of King William of Orange ( or Good King Billy as he is known in some circles ) at the Battle of the Boyne .
18 One of the country 's leading experts on the secret services says the evidence confirms what he 's known for some time .
19 ‘ I understand he 's known at this address ?
20 He 's known as Mad Jack inside , you know . ’
21 At present little or nothing is known about these patients .
22 Nothing is known of any children .
23 But his parents soon realised that Ashley would need more specialized help , so they turned to the Peto Institute in Hungary , which has pioneered the treatment of children like Ashley with what 's known as conductive education .
24 It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia .
25 It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia .
26 Most of what is known about acute aluminium poisoning comes from studying patients treated for kidney failure by dialysis .
27 But what is known about these genes , based mainly on biochemical evidence , is that their catalytic protein products are likely to play critical roles in the transducing pathways that stimulate cells to grow and adopt specific phenotypes of functional importance .
28 Most of what is known about social development is based on the study of encounters between a child and one other person , yet much of a child 's life takes place in groups of more than two persons — within the family , the neighbourhood peer groups , the pre-school group , and so on .
29 All other methods involve what is known as accelerated depreciation because the depreciation is greater in the early years than the later years .
30 Although III/V substances such as GaAs and InGaAs are increasingly being used commercially , their usefulness is still constrained by what is known as final passivation — the last layer of the IC structure which protects the works against mechanical shocks and contamination ( for instance by water ) , and also provides electrical isolation .
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