Example sentences of "often known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longer term contracts are often known as ‘ blanket ’ deals . |
| 2 | Many marine mammals ( for example , sperm whales , sealions , and elephant seals ) show a similar difference in size between mature males and females , especially if the dominant male holds a number of mature females , often known as a ‘ harem . ’ |
| 3 | Until with Heat and Work , ‘ t is often known , |
| 4 | Although often known as ‘ fringe benefits ’ , non-monetary additions to earnings can often represent a considerable part of the financial rewards of employment . |
| 5 | Heads of department acquired heavier responsibilities , but were at the same time often grouped in wider partnerships — often known , somewhat grandly , as faculties — to encourage more interdisciplinary work and greater flexibility in the use of resources . |
| 6 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 7 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 8 | Although perusal of Appendix B will reveal much of what is involved in environmental scanning in practice , it is as well here to place the activity within the broader process often known as ‘ environmental analysis ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ No. 15 is the carpenters ’ and joiners ' shop — often known as the Old Finishing Shop — where furniture and general joinery for the railway and works and offices , ticket cases for station booking offices , platform barrows and trucks , etc. , are made . |
| 10 | This is usually called an occupational or company pension if the employer is private ; and in the public sector it is often known as superannuation . |
| 11 | The principle of inverse irreversibility is often known by its more colloquial sobriquet as the ‘ Idiot child principle ’ , in deference to the long observed tendency of mothers to love best their least-promising offspring . |
| 12 | The environments are relatively constant , selective pressures are more or less identifiable , the amount of isolation is often known , and the entire set of interacting species is known . |
| 13 | These symptoms , often known collectively as hyperactivity or the hyperkinetic syndrome are dealt with more fully in Chapter Eleven . |
| 14 | Bacteria and blue-green algae are chemically very similar , both being of the procaryotic kind , and are often known as cyanobacteria . |
| 15 | On the other hand , they supply us with essential fatty acids , often known as vitamin F , which are the starting materials for prostaglandin synthesis . |
| 16 | Where a spar has to be flexible , and is bent by a tensioning line , it is often known as a ‘ bow ’ , or ‘ bender ’ . |
| 17 | This can be rewritten as in which form it is often known as the Fundamental Theorem of Game Theory . |
| 18 | Payne cut his own tools from honeysuckle , acorns , vines and leaves and worked in a restrained manner on a red-brown calf impregnated with birch bark oil — a leather often known as ‘ russia ’ . |
| 19 | This was the edition most commonly used in England till the publication of the Authorised Version in 1611 and is often known as the ‘ Breeches ’ Bible from the rendering in Genesis iii . |
| 20 | Often known as ex libris ( 'from the books of … ‘ ) , they are divided by experts into a number of well-defined categories , according to style and period . |
| 21 | It is also often known by the name ‘ birds-eye ’ jacquard on some other types of knitting machine . |
| 22 | With the RG1 Ribber Carriage , you can knit what is often known as bird 's eye Fair Isle . |
| 23 | Another type of multi-way tree is often known as a trie ( from the word ‘ retrieval ’ , but pronounced as ‘ try ’ to distinguish it from ‘ tree ’ in speech ) and was first introduced by Fredkin ( Fredkin , 1960 ; Knuth , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | The genus Cirrhilabrus embraces just such a highly colourful and generally-peaceful collection of species , often known as Fairy Wrasse , which keep to manageable sizes and maintain a radiant beauty throughout their lifetime . |
| 25 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 26 | It is often known as ideal or agathistic utilitarianism . |
| 27 | The theory of state monopoly capitalism ( often known as Stamocap for short ) is used by the ruling communist parties of the Soviet bloc and orthodox Western communist parties loyal to Moscow in order to analyse the state in contemporary liberal democracies ( Jessop , 1982 , p. 32 ; Hardach and Karras , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | Beta , often known by its old proper name , was ranked of the first magnitude in ancient times , but is at present slightly below the second . |
| 29 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 30 | ‘ Rock'n Roll , often known now as rock , roll and riot is sexy music . |