Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [is] know in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We proceeded in the manner of what 's known in film terms as a romp , though I was feeling far from rompish . |
| 2 | Last month that campaign attempted to interest the Health Minister , Virginia Bottomley , in the rising number of what is known in the jargon as excess winter deaths . |
| 3 | ‘ In this way , he is clearly trying to dominate his wife in what is known in men as gorilla-like behaviour . ’ |
| 4 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 5 | ( For some peculiar reason the Boeing company speak of the ‘ chord ’ when referring to what is known in Britain as a ‘ spar boom ’ and for which the standard American expression is ‘ spar cap . ’ |
| 6 | This study also serves to illustrate the very real need for what is known in healing circles as ‘ psychic protection ’ . |