Example sentences of "be know as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We 're , we 're known as upper class teenagers . |
2 | Another stratification system based just as exclusively on ascribed status attributes is characteristic of what are known as age-set societies . |
3 | Deviations from this basic order may be useful , particularly with regard to what are known as differential facets and common facets . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Chrysanthemums , poinsettia , corn , coffee and others flower during the shortening days of autumn and are known as short-day plants . |
6 | A good example of this arises in the study of children 's reasoning , particularly in their ability to make what are known as transitive inferences . |
7 | Infantry battalions equipped with Warrior are known as armoured infantry . |
8 | These streams are known as cosmic rays , and come from various parts of the Universe . |
9 | Such cases are known as fluent restorations . |
10 | Making comparisons between species involves identifying what are known as homologous structures . |
11 | The 1974 Labour Government insisted that what are known as long-term benefits , such as old-age pensions and invalidity benefit , should increase in line with prices or earnings , whichever was the more advantageous for the claimants . |
12 | These are known as back-inlet gullies . |
13 | The extra revenue , extra cost , lost revenue and saved cost are relevant to the decision to be made ; they are known as relevant costs . |
14 | This is why futures contracts are known as derivative securities , because they are derivative on the underlying cash market good . |
15 | Futures and options are known as derivative assets because they are based on other " underlying " assets which have volatile prices . |
16 | The largest calibre pyroclasts ( > 64 mm across ) , which usually show some degree of rounding , are known as volcanic bombs . |
17 | Bread and potatoes , although they are carbohydrate foods , are known as unrefined carbohydrates and are not especially rich in energy , so you can eat them — but with minimum butter or margarine . |
18 | These markets are known as forward exchange markets . |
19 | ZSM-5 and related materials are known as shape-selective catalysts . |
20 | Such Quantities are known as latent variables and they include human abilities and attitudes as well as collective characteristics of society such as business confidence . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Affixes used to mark tense or number ( e.g. he is paint ing or he paint s ) are known as inflectional affixes and those used to derive related words ( e.g. paint er or re paint ) are known as derivational affixes . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Rocks like pumice , which are ejected as broken , solid fragments rather than in liquid form , are known as pyroclastic rocks ( pyro — fire , clastic — broken = broken by fire ) . |
25 | The mid-ocean ridges where oceanic crust is being continuously created are known as constructive plate margins , while the deep ocean trenches which define the sites where the oceanic crust dives down again into the mantle are known as destructive plate margins . |
26 | The localized regions of turbulence are known as turbulent spots . |
27 | Securities that are sold at a discount , pay no interest explicitly , and mature at par are known as pure discount securities . |
28 | The mid-ocean ridges where oceanic crust is being continuously created are known as constructive plate margins , while the deep ocean trenches which define the sites where the oceanic crust dives down again into the mantle are known as destructive plate margins . |
29 | Formal links between sentences and between clauses are known as cohesive devices and they can be dealt with under the headings in 2.2 to 2.8 . |
30 | VAT is charged on what are known as taxable supplies . |