Example sentences of "[conj] is know as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entitled At Home with the Koons , it shows a trio of puppies in the foreground while , modestly veiled by the lovable little hounds , the middle regions of Jeff and Ilona are engaged in the intimate act that is known as , well , doggie-fashion . |
| 2 | What is of more environmental significance , however , is the subdiscipline of biotechnology that is known as genetic engineering . |
| 3 | Why do so many people want to take a long journey into that rather strange place that is known as Adland . |
| 4 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 5 | Since 1980 the series has been sponsored by PPG Industries and is know as the PPG Indy Car World Series . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | One form would appear peculiar to them , and is known as potter 's asthma , or potter' s consumption . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This structure is actually a graph rather than a tree , and is known as a Directed Acyclic Word Graph ( dawg ) . |
| 15 | The spectrum of illnesses caused by both viruses is similar and is known as HIV-related disease . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Winchelsea , 3 miles away , was created by Edward I and is known as the smallest town in England . |
| 18 | The largest pass lies to the south-west of Altdorf and is known as Axe Bite Pass . |
| 19 | It 's been developed in C++ and is known as Interviews , though it 'll probably come to the market as Fresco . |
| 20 | It was he who wrote the famous book which has come down to us by its Arab translation , and is known as the Almagest . |
| 21 | There is a an oak wood said to have grown from acorns planted after the Battle of Waterloo and is known as Waterloo Wood . |
| 22 | In the latter case the intersegmental sclerite forms a narrow band at the front of the notum and is known as the acrotergite . |
| 23 | Among Apocritan Hymenoptera this segment becomes fused with the metathorax during the change from the larva to the pupa and is known as the propodeum , epinotum or median segment . |
| 24 | In the female parent the chromosome which is provided is shaped rather like the letter X and is known as an X chromosome . |
| 25 | Within a short time the egg has become a group of cells surrounded by a membrane which holds them together , from 16 to 32 in all , and is known as a morula , the Latin word for mulberry . |
| 26 | The former grain mill of the village , one of the finest in the region built in 1821 , serves nowadays as a community cultural centre and is known as the Kulturmuhle . |
| 27 | A club where kung fu is practised is called a kwoon , which means ‘ training place ’ , and is known as the kung fu home . |
| 28 | They are known by letters for which we have provided suitable mnemonics : ‘ A ’ ( the Accounting Committee ) deals with Budget and Finance as well as Trade and External Relations ; ‘ B ’ ( the Blazing Committee ) deals with energy and technology as well as transport ; ‘ C ’ ( the Caring Committee ) scrutinizes consumer and social affairs ; ‘ D ’ ( the Digging Committee ) is responsible for agriculture ; ‘ F ’ , the Environmental Committee is named the ‘ Friends of the Earth ’ ; Sub-Committee E ( Law and Institutions ) is traditionally chaired by a Law Lord — formerly by Lord Oliver of Aylmerton and now by Lord Slynn of Hadley — and is known as the Legal Eagles Committee . |
| 29 | But there is another type of risk affecting corporate bonds that has recently come to prominence and is known as event risk ( or restructuring risk ) . |
| 30 | This procedure is essentially a two-dimensional interpolation , and is known as resampling . |