Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] known [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Because there are no constraints placed upon the timing of the volunteer 's activities in such a time-free environment , these are called free-running experiments and the rhythms measured during them are known as free-running rhythms .
2 We 're , we 're known as upper class teenagers .
3 This Fact Sheet will be followed by a series of Briefing Papers for MPs , which will go beyond the facts to a description of the types of arguments that have been employed by researchers to study the causes of unemployment , including the possible effects so far as they are known of various remedies that have been proposed .
4 The extra revenue , extra cost , lost revenue and saved cost are relevant to the decision to be made ; they are known as relevant costs .
5 This chapter will be concerned with the most straightforward kinds of pyroclastic deposits : those which are made up of fragments which have simply been shot up into the air and fallen back down again , so they are known as pyroclastic fall deposits .
6 Such enzymes do exist — they are known as reverse transcriptases — but they are generally believed to be exclusive to RNA viruses , which need them to transcribe their RNA genes into DNA for replication inside cells .
7 Finally there will be a careful check on the ability of fishermen applying for day tickets , and unless they are known as serious carp anglers they will not get the slightest chance of a day on the lake .
8 Andesites come halfway between basalts and granites in almost every property : silica content , density , colour and so on , so they are known as intermediate rocks .
9 , c ( They are known as Maximum Elevation Figures ( MEF ) and are not safety heights ) .
10 Whether from shame or fear of the all-pervasive Mukhabarat security police , people are reluctant to talk of the four civilians in Maan who were killed - they do not use the word ‘ martyred ’ as would Palestinians on the West Bank of the river — during the ‘ sorrowful events ’ as they are known in official parlance .
11 The quality and quantity of ornament is very similar , and , although the cantharus in the angle and the aquatic scenes adjacent to the design are absent , they are known in other mosaics at Lydney , e.g. a cantharus in the mosaic of room XLI ( Wheeler 1932 , pI .
12 But despite these problems the method receives powerful support from the practical comparison of the representation of coin issues in hoards and the size of those issues where they are known from mint records .
13 The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north .
14 It 's known as Fat Albert after a comic strip character .
15 Fundamental analysis is also known as investment analysis in the UK , while in the USA it is known as financial analysis or securities analysis .
16 This phenomenon also arises in the field of insurance where it is known as adverse selection .
17 More commonly , however , it is known as Absolute Idealism .
18 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 .
19 This pattern of acquired dyslexia is also seen : it is known as phonological dyslexia .
20 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 .
21 It is known from Egyptian history that , from 20 AD , a census of householders was taken every fourteen years .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 He 's known as Mad Jack inside , you know . ’
25 At this period it was known as Upper Hailing Place and was the residence of the Rev. James Formby .
26 In a variety of forms it was known in ancient times .
27 She uses only the pinhole camera or , as it was known in pre-photographic times , the camera obscura .
28 Police had not named the man last night , but locals said he was known as Big Leo , of Thorntree .
29 Of the other candidates , Funar was mayor of Cluj-Napoca where he was known for anti-Hungarian measures [ see p. 38922 ] ; Dragomir had been chosen as NSF candidate on July 25 after Petre Roman , former Prime Minister and leader of the reformist NSF [ see p. 38881 ] had refused to stand for the presidency ; Manzatu , a professor and founder of the Republican Party ( RP ) , was formerly connected with the Ceausescu leadership ; and Druc , formerly Prime Minister of Moldova , campaigned solely on the unification issue .
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