Example sentences of "it is known in " in BNC.

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1 The M2 , or Alligator as it is known in West German service , is a vehicle the size of an average forty-five-seater passenger coach , and is essentially a self-propelled bridging pontoon .
2 VHAF , as it is known in the trade , is being given a rigorous fitness test by the Football League Playing Surfaces Committee .
3 It is known in Australia as the Australian White and was first exported there in 1958 ( heifers in calf to a White Galloway ) ; it is one of the basic breeds within the Mandalong Special .
4 It now costs significantly less to buy a computer — or a ‘ work station ’ as it is known in the trade — than it does to pay someone to sit behind it .
5 His brief at the new Ministry for National Heritage — of Fun and Tourism ( Fat ) , as it is known in Whitehall — embraces the BBC .
6 It is known in India as the ‘ Good Snake ’ .
7 While ‘ the Ten ’ , as it is known in the trade , is having its most successful year since 1986 with an average 7.2 million viewers , it can not rest on its laurels .
8 It is known in Texas by the increasingly common term of NIMBYism — ‘ Not In My Back Yard ’ .
9 The French manufactured Dassault-Breguet Mystère 20 , or Falcon 20 as it is known in the United States , is one of the most versatile executive jets flying in the world today .
10 An order for payment of money or for the transfer of assets can not be an order intended to restore parties to transactions to their former positions unless it is known in relation to each transaction in question ( a ) who were the parties ( b ) what the nature of the transaction was and ( c ) what assets or money each party to the transaction had paid or transferred to the others .
11 Soon after I went to Cambridge , I was diagnosed as having ALS , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or motor neurone disease , as it is known in England .
12 How can the Secretary of State for the Environment be environmentally benign when he is introducing the Heseltax , as it is known in Wolverhampton , and disastrous standard spending assessment being inflicted on Wolverhampton ?
13 It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress .
14 The tahki , as it is known in Mongolia , is thought to have become extinct in the wild .
15 Winemark and other Independents have the Bellingham range which includes Culemborg Chenin Blanc ( or Steen as it is known in SA ) Crisp , fresh slightly off dry with a definite style of its own , £3.99 .
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