Example sentences of "are know as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top pair never fastens , are known as dress buttons . |
| 2 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 3 | Hand-knotted rugs are known as pile rugs , or simply as rugs , and are generally regarded as the most important and aesthetically satisfying manifestations of the oriental rug-maker 's art . |
| 4 | These are known as candidate keys . |
| 5 | In South America they are known as army ants , in Africa as drivers . |
| 6 | Residential Homes provided by the regional councils are known as Part iv accommodation . |
| 7 | For this reason , such changes are known as biotransformation rather than detoxification . |
| 8 | Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long . |
| 9 | The thinnest crusts are known as desert varnish . |
| 10 | These are known as laser discs because the signal is read by a laser beam which decodes variations in reflected light imprinted on the disc . |
| 11 | These are known as tap bills and the rate of discount is set by the Treasury . |
| 12 | The conditions which must be fulfilled are known as felicity conditions . |
| 13 | And , of course , talk of cost must never overlook what are known as opportunity costs : time , effort , and money spent on one thing necessarily means a lost opportunity to spend them on something else , which may be of just as much value . |
| 14 | ( In Scotland , plaintiff and defendant are known as claimant and debtor , respectively . ) |
| 15 | These wolf-whistle cries are known as frequency modulated ( FM ) . |
| 16 | Some tile ranges still include what are known as insert tiles — tiles carrying moulded bathroom accessories such as soap dishes and toilet roll holders , though these are not as common or as popular as they once were . |
| 17 | It contains a number of impurities the sum of which are known as water hardness salts . |
| 18 | They are known as pencil lengtheners and are made in Germany . |
| 19 | In the early days of cable , manual signalling was employed , using what are known as cable code signalling ( Fig. 3 . ) . |
| 20 | It 's a mechanistic philosophy , with the priority on mass human convenience , and it is appropriate that the places where most of our pigs live out their wretched lives are known as factory farms . |
| 21 | The structure of the igfet leads to what are known as surface states . |
| 22 | For reasons which need not concern us here , they have become almost solely used on the tail rotor servo of model helicopters to assist in controlling the tail and are known as tail rotor gyros or just ‘ gyros ’ . |
| 23 | The duration of local authority bonds is typically between one and five years , although most are for one year and are known as yearling bonds . |
| 24 | Rocks are classified chemically according to how much silica ( silicon dioxide ) they contain ; rocks with a lot of silica are known as acid . |
| 25 | A bank 's currency accounts held with overseas banks ( correspondents ) are known as nostro accounts ( nostro is Latin for ‘ our ’ ) . |
| 26 | There is a widespread belief among claimants in my constituency — about one third are in receipt directly or indirectly of social security income — that claim applications encouraged by what are known as take-up campaigns are subjected to a form of discrimination compared with other applications that go across the desk in the normal way . |
| 27 | Internal moulds of fossil nautiloids often reveal a series of such lines marking the boundaries of the chambers — these are known as suture lines . |
| 28 | In Wales these third-tier authorities are known as community councils . |
| 29 | These , originally exercised by the monarch personally , are known as prerogative powers . |
| 30 | Such errors are known as regularisation errors . |