Example sentences of "[det] is know [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One method of demonstrating this is known as the international Eisher effect .
2 This is known as the molar volume .
3 This is known as the synoptic problem .
4 This is known as the present value of £100 in one year 's time at a discount rate of 8 per cent , or the DCF PV at 8 per cent .
5 This is known as the present value of £100 in one years time at a discount rate of 8 per cent , or the DCF PV at 8 per cent .
6 This is known as the vocational stage of training , which is designed to provide a bridge between the academic stage of training and what might be labelled the clinical stage of training in articles .
7 This is known as the narrow rule .
8 This is known as the CRITICAL TEMPERATURE .
9 This is known as the Full Listing Hypothesis .
10 This is known as the free-rider problem .
11 In the UK this is known as the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) .
12 This is known as the residual effect .
13 Not much is known about the political attitudes of unemployed people .
14 We know a bit more about their massive pay increases , but not so much is known about the beautiful profits , about the wonderful conditions that they 've allocated to themselves .
15 Rather more is known about the similar outbreak in the fifteenth century , Jack Cade 's rebellion of 1450 .
16 It is futile to inquire into the causation of verbal behaviour until much more is known about the specific character of this behaviour ; and there is little point in speculating about processes of acquisition without much better understanding of what is acquired .
17 More is known about the possible costs of curbing output of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas .
18 Little is known of the general effects of oil on the distribution of small cetaceans .
19 Little is known of the ecological context of the afropithecin fossils , but while the best record is again from Maboko Island , there is some doubt about the ecological interpretation of this site .
20 Instead , they reflect how little is known of the demographic processes ( such as root mortality ) that control below-ground carbon and nutrient cycling , and the relationship between root demography and the soil environment .
21 Relatively little is known of the systematic knowledge which local peoples have of forest species and dynamics , and of the various patterns of traditional extraction and their consequences , yet it may provide vital information for those concerned with effective forestry , medicine , nutrition and plant product development .
22 There is still much debate as to the necessity of using toxic doses of interleukin-2 : little is known of the precise mechanism by which it causes tumour regression , and many healthcare professionals seem reluctant to change from protocols that have shown some benefit in terms of survival and tumour response .
23 Although reasonable surmises may be made concerning the effect of various properties of the coast on erosion , little is known of the precise effects which they have .
24 These molecules are involved in low-affinity homophilic and/or heterophilic recognition , but little is known of the physical basis for these interactions .
25 Little is known of the fundamental aspects of the immunology of chronic infection versus acute infection in giardiasis .
26 LITTLE is known of the interdecadal variability in the thermohaline circulation of the world 's oceans , yet such knowledge is essential as a background to studies of the effects of natural and anthropogenic climate change .
27 Relatively little is known about the cellular events dictating differentiation in humans .
28 But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools .
29 Little is known about the key processes which fix land values and lead to land valorisation as urban development occurs .
30 Every Scot knows at least part of the story of the massacre , but many are not aware of the background that led up to the atrocity and too little is known about the heinous wickedness of some of the characters involved .
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