Example sentences of "[coord] [is] know " in BNC.

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1 The resulting leakage of plasma from veins is a recognised feature of multiple sclerosis and is know to cause shedding of the fatty covering of nerve fibres ( the myelin sheath ) .
2 Since 1980 the series has been sponsored by PPG Industries and is know as the PPG Indy Car World Series .
3 The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote .
4 The majority will receive the ‘ Operation Enterprise ’ pack which has been used for a number of years and is known to the movement .
5 Dr Kavanagh , who wears a beret above fierce eyebrows and is known in New York as Frankie the Mechanic because he fixes the neighbours ' cars , is on permanent red alert over his brother 's reputation .
6 He is believed to be honest and is known for his involvement in the army-backed project for ‘ Green Esarn ’ .
7 In a similar way the Desert Fathers , whose ascetical practices frequently seem to pass into the range of farce , are regarded at least with affection and more often with deep admiration , partly of course because of the delightful anecdotery that has collected around them , and is known to us through the works of writers like Helen Waddell .
8 But since he now writes in a newspaper notorious for its pro-Tory partisanship , the Sunday Express , and is known unaffectionately in the trade as ‘ the Brute ’ , nobody took him seriously .
9 The other shrine , a mile out of town in Houghton St Giles , is the 14th-century national Roman Catholic shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham , and is known as the slipper chapel .
10 This time is not the period required overall but the actual time the chemical is in contact with the soil and is known as contact time .
11 One of our favourite Assynt lochs lies a mile or so beyond the caves , and is known as the Gillaroo Loch , the name being derived from a species of Irish trout which inhabit limestone loughs such as Neigh and Mask .
12 The mills are in Heaton Road , and the boilerhouse chimney , 255 feet high , is in the style of a Venetian campanile and is known locally as Lister 's Pride .
13 The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy .
14 She ‘ takes in ’ children in her house at Brighton , and is known as ‘ a great manager ’ of children ; the secret of that management was ‘ to give them everything they did n't like , and nothing that they did ’ .
15 The part appears only to be fitted to Piper aircraft , and is known to be fitted to the PA-46 Malibu .
16 One form would appear peculiar to them , and is known as potter 's asthma , or potter' s consumption .
17 This is achieved when local authorities replace directly employed labour with a private sector firm ( eg street cleaning , hospital laundry and catering services ) and is known as contracting out .
18 The total energy which has to be used up in producing a real fracture surface is therefore greater than G and is known as the ‘ work of fracture ’ , W , such that , Although W is always considerably bigger than G , its actual magnitude varies very greatly between different materials .
19 Sources close to President North indicate that he is deeply shaken by the arrest of Dr Proctor , who has been a frequent guest at the White House and is known to be a close friend of the Norths , and was godfather to little Joey North and to Ollie Jr .
20 This structure is actually a graph rather than a tree , and is known as a Directed Acyclic Word Graph ( dawg ) .
21 The spectrum of illnesses caused by both viruses is similar and is known as HIV-related disease .
22 The storms seem to be formed in the strangely disturbed band of atmosphere that lies athwart the equator between the two trade wind regions , and is known as the intertropical convergence zone .
23 Winchelsea , 3 miles away , was created by Edward I and is known as the smallest town in England .
24 The largest pass lies to the south-west of Altdorf and is known as Axe Bite Pass .
25 It 's been developed in C++ and is known as Interviews , though it 'll probably come to the market as Fresco .
26 It was he who wrote the famous book which has come down to us by its Arab translation , and is known as the Almagest .
27 Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude .
28 It was bought by Baron Meyer de Rothschild for Mentmore before 1860 , and is known to have been in Palazzo Manfrini , Venice , by the 1850s .
29 The King Edward VI grammar school is one of the most ancient in the country and is known to have been an educational institution from at least 1276 , though it received its Royal Charter in 1551 .
30 There is a an oak wood said to have grown from acorns planted after the Battle of Waterloo and is known as Waterloo Wood .
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