Example sentences of "[noun pl] known as " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to J S Fletcher in A Book about Yorkshire , small vessels known as Barnaby boats brought people to the town by way of the River Ure from Hull , Selby and York . |
| 2 | Dinosaurs did have — and mammals still have — minute channels for blood vessels known as Haversian canals . |
| 3 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 4 | There is a class of popular storage and search methods known as hashing ( hash encoding ) or scatter storage techniques ( Knuth , 1973 ; Aho et al , 1983 ; Cooper and Clancy , 1985 ; see also section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 5 | By means of technical methods known as single , double , and triple tonguing extremely rapid but clear staccato production is obtainable , which is most sure and effective when used for the rapid reiteration of a single note , e.g. : |
| 6 | Referring to SPLA dissidents known as the Nasir group [ see pp. 38426 ; 38666 ] , he said that the only towns taken by the government forces were those " which depend on our dissidents … who have defected and chosen the camp of Gen. Bashir " . |
| 7 | As we have said , it is well established in scientific circles that ants and many other creatures , too , communicate by means of external molecular signals known as pheromones . |
| 8 | Celgene has developed a patented method of isolating left- and right-handed versions of compounds known as amines , used as building blocks in a variety of drugs for cardiovascular diseases and central nervous system disorders . |
| 9 | They enter the environment as mixtures of over 200 different compounds known as congeners . |
| 10 | There are other relationships between subjects known as syntactic relationships which arise from the context of subjects in specific documents — from the syntax . |
| 11 | The embarkation was to take place in the harbour and roads of Cherbourg in 200 oyster ketches known as chasse-mapées . |
| 12 | Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe . |
| 13 | The small bats known as horseshoe bats have long been known to emit long , fixed-pitch hoots rather than staccato clicks or descending wolf-whistles . |
| 14 | Linkage of the cytoplasmic domain to the cytoskeleton through proteins known as catenins is necessary for cadherin function . |
| 15 | For instance , genes coding the proteins known as fibrinopeptides change in evolution at a rate that closely approximates the basic mutation rate . |
| 16 | Obviously , if probes in this region were deleted one by one , starting from the probes known as repetitive ( containing ribosomal DNA or belonging to telomeres in this case ) , less of them would be deleted and the overlap would be successfully detected . |
| 17 | Routine policing in Easton is the responsibility of the uniform branch , which is divided between organizational units known as sections and the neighbourhood and community relations teams , as well as the plain-clothes units like the CID and CDU ( Crime Detection Unit ) . |
| 18 | It appeared to be British and was probably one of the highly mobile units known as Jock ’ columns which were used to carry out harassing attacks on the German flanks . |
| 19 | The plays they performed enacted the events of the Bible , from Creation to Doomsday , divided into separate units known as pageants . |
| 20 | It exists in four slightly different forms , all based on a ring-like atomic structure formed by four chemical units known as pyrroles . |
| 21 | It does not , of course , follow that the radiation and extinction of the monophyletic units known as clades do not have deterministic explanations . |
| 22 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 23 | They were sometimes the heads of administrative units known as hundreds — hundredal manors with some of the characteristics of a town , and they may have had the minster church , upon which the churches elsewhere on the estate were dependent . |
| 24 | The country was divided into shires , themselves composed of units known as hundreds ( or wapentakes in some areas ) . |
| 25 | Choosing one category as a base effectively turns any polytomous variable into a series of dichotomous variables known as dummy variables . |
| 26 | ( The cases all concern referees known as " valuers " , but the same difficulty could arise with experts if the umpire procedure were used for experts , which modern practice has made rare : see 9.8.2 . ) |
| 27 | Young people also created their own leisure styles known as ‘ youth sub-cultures ’ . |
| 28 | Subsequent investigations have led to some revisions of Gilbert 's original findings and it is now thought by some researchers that the laccoliths radiate from central discordant intrusions known as stocks ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 29 | Some sort of buzz words known as social facilitation and social inhibition which come from the work of Allport . |
| 30 | During the summer these may include small animals known as dinoflagellates , which produce toxic waste products . |