Example sentences of "this [be] known [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is known as a die-off reaction or Herxheimer reaction .
2 This is known as a coronary artery bypass graft ( CABG ) or ‘ cabbage ’ in the trade .
3 When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect .
4 In particular , the sensory neurons make both direct and indirect connections with the motor neurons ; the direct connections involve synapses between an axon of a sensory neuron and a dendrite or cell body of the motor neuron ( this is known as a monosynaptic pathway ) ; in the indirect polysynaptic pathway the sensory neuron first makes synaptic contact with an interneuron , which itself then synapses with the motor neuron .
5 This is known as a symmetrical display .
6 Money , paid allegedly for takeover fees and consultancy advice , was channelled to various associates of Guinness for the purpose of buying Guinness shares , thereby increasing the share price — this is known as a share-support operation .
7 This is known as a random binary search tree .
8 So what you 're doing is making assumptions about the population from which your samples were drawn , so therefore this is known as a parametric technique Nearly there Now , another interpretation of Pearson 's R , or the correlation coefficient generally , is variants If you square the correlation coefficient it equally the proportion of variants in X accounted for by Y. Now that is actually a very good measure of how good a correlation is .
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