Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 31 | Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited , JCI , or ‘ Johnnies ’ as it is more affectionately known , is once again a major shareholder in Johnson Matthey . |
| 32 | It is more commonly known today as water gas . |
| 33 | It is of course acknowledged that the new TransAction scheme ( or the National Protocol as it is more commonly known ) does not apply to commercial transactions , or indeed to transactions involving building or farmland . |
| 34 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 35 | Tax to pay for our holidays abroad , or Government in exile as it is more appropriately known , will be raised from the equitable basis of rating taxes at the point of sale , or in the case of blue tax , see above , conspicuous consummation . |
| 36 | It is so well known that women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies that the labels on cigarette packets in America caution that ‘ smoking may complicate pregnancy . ’ |
| 37 | Culpeper wrote of it " it is so frequently known to be an inhabitant in almost every garden that it is needless to write a description thereof . |
| 38 | It is less well known , probably , that Banbury has been a trade centre since Viking times , and the design of the town still bears witness to this . |
| 39 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 40 | It is perhaps best known through the smash-hit sixties musical Hair ! |