Example sentences of "know as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so and they then erm I have got some friends I used to know as the little school but they 've left now . |
| 2 | This is perhaps to be expected of the man who is executive director of Mensa , traditionally know as the brainy people 's organisation . |
| 3 | However , the content required for such targets is inadequate for a true presentation of the Catholic faith tradition — it does not embody that content which adherents know as the essential elements of their faith . |
| 4 | The " sett " referred to as being held by Wilson might have been what we now know as the Tilberthwaite Mine ; which had been an attractive prospect from the days of the Elizabethan miners and continued to be investigated on and off right up to the 1930's . |
| 5 | There were delays in correspondence owing to the war , and Wordsworth decided to finish , as a tribute to his friend , the ‘ poem to Coleridge ’ which we now know as the 1805 Prelude . |
| 6 | There were of , course , side effects especially with the poisonous remedies such as Arsenicum , and the desire to eliminate these toxic effects led him to develop , in 1815 , the method of trituration and subsequent liquid dilution and succussion , we know as the centesimal potencies . |
| 7 | This little band are know as the Medieval Heritage Society , a re-enactment group with a strange desire to give people a glimpse of life in the 1450's . |
| 8 | It was now possible to map what we now know as the motor cortex ( i.e. the part of the brain controlling muscle function ) in terms of the musculature each section controlled . |
| 9 | All of my experience has been gained on what we know as the fast jets ; in the air defence role I have worked on the Lightning and in the ground attack role with both the Jaguar and Tornado . |
| 10 | These exercises , known as the 18 hands of Lo-Han , are popularly believed to be the forerunners of Shaolin temple boxing . |
| 11 | This gives what Lord Wright calls the " datum figure " , but it is also known as the annual dependency or the multiplicand . |
| 12 | After being wounded and briefly taken prisoner during the retreat from Mons , he joined the Intelligence Bureau in Cairo , later known as the Arab Bureau , in December 1914 with T. E. Lawrence [ q.v. ] , who became a close friend and ally . |
| 13 | But at the same time , away from public scrutiny , many of these same stores reduced the risk of their credit being abused through a semi-secret organization known as The Mutual Communications Society which circulated to its members the names of habitual defaulters . |
| 14 | This layer of attenuated velocity is known as the low velocity zone and the reduction in seismic wave velocities is considered to be due to partial melting in this region of the mantle . |
| 15 | The film was based on a saucy Twenties stage comedy by Robert Munro , better known as the late comedian Sonnie Hale , and it was not one of the Boulting Brothers ' best , despite the presence of some great British character actors . |
| 16 | The initiative was coordinated by a specially created unit — comprising both civil servants and management consultants — known as the Financial Management Unit of the Cabinet Office ( MPO ) and the Treasury , which was replaced in 1985 by the Treasury/Cabinet Office Joint Management Unit . |
| 17 | All of the points we have discussed so far can be combined in one manoeuvre , the rolling stall turn ( Fig. 9.6 ) , originally known as the Belgian stall turn . |
| 18 | They appointed Cromwell their advocate at the commission of sewers in Huntingdon , and he ensured that a clause concerning the commandeering of common land was included in the catalogue of complaints known as the Grand Remonstrance presented to the king in 1641 . |
| 19 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 20 | The Winston Cup series was started in 1949 and was known as the Grand National series . |
| 21 | He said he joined the order , properly known as the Grand Priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem , in 1986 . |
| 22 | They are known as the Super Mario Brothers . |
| 23 | Under the scheme , known as the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market ( Reclaim ) , the AQMD sets an annual target for reducing emissions of hydrocarbons , nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide . |
| 24 | Item twelve , which is paper K , er , the order has tumbled down in too many free meetings , which right , business links , otherwise known as the one stop shop . |
| 25 | Otherwise known as the one stop shop , yes , just an updating for , for members on the basis of the report , the , there are a er , number of recommendations attached to the report , the business link proposal with it 's core at , at Park in Telford is now erm , processing to , hoping to open in April or May nineteen ninety four . |
| 26 | With built-in UV , the units are known as the Ultraclear . |
| 27 | His force had recently been strengthened by a group of Greeks , who became known as the Sacred Squadron , the latest recruits to the SAS empire . |
| 28 | We live and work with three priests from an order known as The Sacred Heart Fathers . |
| 29 | I want as well to redress some imbalances in recent academic accounts of the period known as the sixties . |
| 30 | There is enough light for photosynthesis only in the top 100 m or less ; the region known as the euphotic zone . |