Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] know as " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a rapid growth of large privately owned estates known as çiftliks . |
| 2 | According to yet another study , this one published in the Lancet , red wine in moderation is thought to protect against coronary disease because it contains substances known as phenolic flavonoids . |
| 3 | Reactions with very fast rates often involve particles known as free radicals . |
| 4 | Such blockages cause pains known as angina , and in severe cases can lead to a heart attack . |
| 5 | The content of the poem ought to be taken with several pinches of salt , partly because it belonged to the genre of boasting poem known as the gap which was a standard form of troubadour verse , and partly because William liked to mock himself as well as others . |
| 6 | As the Tour enters France they will be serving thin slices of raw , cured ham known as jambon de Bayonne , the local specialties of oysters with garlic sausage , cheeses flavoured with peppers . |
| 7 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 8 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 9 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 10 | Among them oil based poisons known as PCB 's . |
| 11 | Together with such services as health , roads and transport , law and order and housing , it falls within a category of spending programmes known as the Scottish Block . |
| 12 | The Amnesty report also said that " no credibility " should be given to government denials of certain human rights abuses which , Amnesty claimed , included the torture of political detainees in specially adapted houses known as " ghost houses " . |
| 13 | Here it is particularly harmful , as it is likely to trigger inflammation known as gingivitis , which can result in erosion of the gum and weakening of the teeth . |
| 14 | The museum preserves , among many other industrial monuments , the famous Iron Bridge ( q.v. ) ; the Old Furnace at Coalbrookdale in which Darby ( q.v. ) successfully used coke for smelting ; the Hay Incline which was built in 1793 to raise tub boats 207 feet from one canal level to another ; a pair of double-beam blast-furnace blowing engines known as David and Sampson ( sic ) ; the former Great Warehouse of the Coalbrookdale Company ; the china works at Coalport ( q.v. ) ; the so-called Bedlam Furnaces built especially for coke smelting in 1757–8 ; and the pithead winding gear of Blists Hill mine . |
| 15 | All of the areas that Papez implicated in emotion are part of an anatomically identified system known as the limbic system . |
| 16 | The idea of the game is to collect counters known as E's , another name for the designer drug Ecstasy . |
| 17 | The EEC has evolved a mechanism for raising revenue known as ‘ own resources ’ . |
| 18 | The group of jointed animals known as arthropods includes scorpions and spiders , and almost all of these are venomous . |
| 19 | These include chips known as read-only memories or ROMs that store preprogrammed data without power but can not be erased , and instantly erasable chips that require constant power , known as random-access memories or RAMs . |