Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 All institutions are now known as ‘ authorized institutions ’ , and the use of the word ‘ bank ’ was restricted to those institutions which had a paid-up capital of at least f5m , but in all other respects the 1981 classification remained .
2 The moral , human rights reasons are well known and need no elaboration .
3 The top-tier authorities are there known as regions , a more appropriate title perhaps , as one of them , Strathclyde , contains half the population of Scotland .
4 The following definitions are best known from his Dictionnaire de musique ( 1768 ) , but date essentially from the early 1750s .
5 The masses of the jovian planets are now known accurately from the Voyager missions , but in the past they were not , and much of the speculation on Planet X has been based on residuals from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's ephemeris DE200 and it predecessors , which used a Neptune mass in error by 0.5 per cent .
6 Examples with stone foundations are also known at Bourton-on-the-Water and Ashton , the latter with unusual upright limestone slabs .
7 Two projections are well known .
8 This is viable because the statistical proportions of such strata are well known , the information coming from basic sources like the Census of Population and , in the UK , the Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods ( ACORN — see later chapter ) .
9 Whether coal-bearing Westphalian strata will be found remains to be seen , but as thin coals are also known in the Namurian and Upper Viséan in the Dungannon area , a rich potential source rock for gas seems very probable .
10 But here such a change in price can not occur since prices are fixed at the end of period t - 1 and their values are therefore known .
11 Such values are respectively known as the poles and zeros of the function and they obviously determine its essential form .
12 Longer term contracts are often known as ‘ blanket ’ deals .
13 Orangs are sometimes known as the ‘ Red Apes ’ .
14 His pro-nuclear views are well known — he was a founder of the pressure group , A Power for Good — but he said he was ‘ unconvinced by the board 's choice of style of pressure vessel . ’
15 My views are well known , but it is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
16 It is assumed that the two approaching waves are both known , and it is required to find the exact solution which describes the interaction following the collision .
17 These risks are widely known , distinguished as much by the possibility of one or several deaths occurring as by the frequency with which the risk materializes .
18 In spheres of conduct such as these , where the risks are widely known , there are strong reasons for broadening the basis of criminal liability so as to encompass negligence .
19 Difficulties in accessing the intuitions of linguistically naive informants are well known to field linguists generally , and have been reported from sources as diverse as the Soviet Union ( Kibrik 1977 ) and Australia ( Healey 1974 ; Dixon 1984 ) .
20 The pulsar PSR 1913+16 and its compact companion form a binary pair whose orbital parameters are well known , thanks to the work of Taylor and his colleagues ( see Section 8.6 ) .
21 Such dimensions are , of course , a direct consequence of selecting hybrid independent variables and the differential parameters are appropriately known as hybrid or h-parameters .
22 The dangers of overtaking on high speed single carriageways are well known .
23 My bonny lies over the ocean The words are well known but I worked out some actions I use as follows :
24 Eviction , harassment , bills for disrepair : the words are well known , but no-one wants to be faced with the reality .
25 Sir Harold rarely bought at auction and never lent his treasures out for exhibition , so most of the pictures are little known , with the exception of Frans Hals 's ‘ Merry lute player ’ , which is in fact in danger of overexposure .
26 These variables are only known locally to the defining procedure or function .
27 Such designs are also known from other sites in the region , i.e. building XIV , 2 , room 4 , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 22 ) , North Leigh , room 1 ( pls. 61 and 62 ) , and Tockington Park , Glos. , room 9 ( pI .
28 These books are well known and thought of , because of their great literary and imaginative content .
29 Numerous archaeological sites are already known and have been recorded ( although often not investigated in any detail ) , so the first task is to find out what these sites are .
30 Many archaeological sites are only known from old aerial photographs taken during military operations in the 1940s and 1950s : the sites themselves have since been destroyed .
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