Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be known as [adj] " 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 | Speakers also have the option of anchoring deictic expressions to a different centre of orientation by means of what is known as deictic projection ( Levinson 1983:64 ) : The anchorage point for the deictic verb " come " , which , in unmarked cases , indicates movement towards the speaker 's location at the moment of utterance , is shifted to the speaker 's future home base in 5 , and to the addressee 's position at a specific future moment in time in 6 ( cf. |
| 3 | Another stratification system based just as exclusively on ascribed status attributes is characteristic of what are known as age-set societies . |
| 4 | An important part of this secondary labour market is composed of what are known as flexible workers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs . |
| 7 | There is another technique known as metabolic thermogenesis , which is a non-shivering method of producing adrenalin done with the aid of food , in what is known as calorigenic action . |
| 8 | Care should be taken in ensuring that any funds not immediately required for either the building of a new church or other charitable purposes are invested in what are known as qualifying investments as prescribed in Sch 20 Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 9 | Agriculture was beginning to change dramatically as well and after two hurricanes which almost wiped out the flourishing egg industry many farms built more substantial hen houses out of concrete blocks and the poultry were kept inside all the time in what was known as deep litter houses . |
| 10 | Better performance still than that provided by the m-derived sections that have been described is available from what are known as double m-derived sections . |
| 11 | Deviations from this basic order may be useful , particularly with regard to what are known as differential facets and common facets . |
| 12 | VAT is charged on what are known as taxable supplies . |
| 13 | CASHLINE machines are to be installed at several Sainsbury supermarkets as part of a Royal Bank plan to increase the number of ATMs at what are known as third party or remote locations . |
| 14 | 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 . |