Example sentences of "[prep] what is [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense . |
| 2 | But Famlio did n't take long to see other possibilities , in the established traditional of what is ironically known as protection . |
| 3 | Well during this programme I 'll be talking with a number of people who are involved in the industry who have their fingers on the pulse of what is commonly known as the tourist industry . |
| 4 | In 1568 Matthew Parker , Archbishop of Canterbury , published a revision of what is usually known as the Great Bible , of nearly thirty years earlier . |
| 5 | Leaving these ( and other ) theoretical generalizations aside for the moment , we turn first to the history of what is usually known as short /a/ in English , and to possible historical patterns of overlap and merger with /Ε/; and /α/.; |
| 6 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | It was demolished soon afterwards in the redevelopment of what is now known as the South Bank . |
| 8 | The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids . |
| 9 | The first group consists of what is sometimes known as the exceptions to the rule nemo dat quod non habet whereby a bona fide purchaser of goods from A commits no conversion but actually obtains a good title to them even though the goods really belonged to B and B never intended to allow A to sell them . |
| 10 | The great red bulk of what is popularly known as the ‘ Caley ’ Hotel , dominates the West End . |
| 11 | One of the main reasons is that the connections between terminals and host computers are telecommunication links , usually simple coaxial cables , with what is technically known as low band width . |
| 12 | The aim is to provide an account of the stages by which a face becomes integrated into our ‘ database ’ of known people , an account which will build upon what is already known about face recognition . |
| 13 | There is a growing recognition that an effective response to crime and crime prevention must reach beyond the conventional boundaries of the criminal justice system , and there have already been a number of practical initiatives which either attempt to draw upon the wider resources of the community , or which rely upon what is usually known at the ‘ inter-agency ’ or ‘ multi-agency ’ approach . |
| 14 | Because the Metropolitan Police were objecting to reversed stairs which obstructed the driver 's vision to the left , 36–45 had Milnes ‘ Exhibition ’ staircases , which took a wide sweep in what is now known as the ‘ Normal ’ direction , i.e. the bottom step just behind the controller and the top step close to and at right angles to the bulkhead . |
| 15 | For the English-speaking nations , this concept was first realised on a substantial scale in what is now known as The Oxford English Dictionary , ( originally entitled A New English dictionary on Historical Principles ) . |
| 16 | From the moment that you arrive at college you will be involved in what is popularly known as " taking notes " and as likely as not within a few weeks you will be the possessor of tattered notebooks filled with illegible hieroglyphics or , worse still , of masses of mixed-up bits of paper . |
| 17 | To cause minimum inconvenience to the locals , the flight commander calls an end to the tactical phase of the exercise and we begin a climb from What is colloquially known as the ‘ weedosphere ’ up to the dizzy height of 1,000 feet . |
| 18 | Because of the limited recruitment and early retirements in recent years , most of their teachers will come from what is loosely known as the ‘ Sixties generation ’ . |
| 19 | I managed to persuade my husband that we should send daughter number three to what is reliably known as the most expensive school in Britain . |
| 20 | Thus , an idea on a social form of activity must be related to what is already known in sociology if our research is to make a genuine contribution to sociological knowledge . |
| 21 | Such breeding programmes , in conjunction with the use of fertilisers and crop-protection chemicals , have given rise to what is commonly known as the ‘ Green Revolution ’ of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | Modern medical thinking suggests this might have been due to what is commonly known as a ‘ bunch of grapes pregnancy ’ . |
| 23 | The new proposals extended the rating for all works on what is now known as ‘ main river ’ — the larger watercourses — to the total catchment area . |
| 24 | The captain of this ship , we are told , ran his vessel aground on what is now known as The Spanish Rock and one or more tailless cats clambered to safety there . |
| 25 | The project is concerned therefore with such things as the ways teachers explain new topics and concepts to children , the ways they check on children 's understanding , the kinds of questions that teachers and children ask , the assumptions that are made about what is already known , and the kinds of misunderstandings that arise and how these are dealt with |
| 26 | So this is an ideal garment for what is commonly known as the Passap method of joining the band to the garment on the machine . |
| 27 | This is achieved by what is usually known as the " ratchet " , namely characteristics built into the shares in Newco . |