Example sentences of "[noun sg] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the court accepts the creditors ' petition and grants a winding up order the company will come under the control of the Official Receiver ( a civil servant from the Department of Trade and Industry known as the OR ) . |
| 32 | ( In the UK electricity generation used to be a nationalized industry known as the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) . |
| 33 | Reductivist arguments can be supported by the form of moral reasoning known as utilitarianism . |
| 34 | THE unveiling of a plaque by the Mayor of Winchester , Captain Richard Bates , at the area close to Alresford Pond known as The Soke , on Saturday , marked the end of 15 years ' endeavour by the Alresford Society . |
| 35 | They moved warily , scuttling forward , overlapping each other , black wraith-like phantoms moving as a single entity , its rhythm known to them as ‘ house-laundering ’ — engaging the enemy at close quarters . |
| 36 | There are accounts of dogs of Mastiff type being exported from Britain to Rome through an agent known as the Procurator Pugnacium ( provider of dogs ) . |
| 37 | At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted , an effect known as organic overload , allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive . |
| 38 | other experiments will look at the effects of further rises in reactor temperature and at an effect known as rod ‘ candling . ’ |
| 39 | But this is due to an effect known as ‘ side echoes ’ ; a sonar frequency of 10 kHz or less is required for true sediment penetration . |
| 40 | Also , the movement on screen can appear rather jerky due to an effect known as ‘ image strobing ’ . |
| 41 | I suggest that the effect can be traced , experimentally , to a resonance effect known in physics as cyclotron resonance . |
| 42 | As previously mentioned , each account is divided into two sides , the left hand side known as the debit and the right hand side known as the credit ( see Fig. 5.2 ) . |
| 43 | As previously mentioned , each account is divided into two sides , the left hand side known as the debit and the right hand side known as the credit ( see Fig. 5.2 ) . |
| 44 | According to that author , early in Murad II 's reign Molla Fenari 's position was shaken by the second revolt of the pretender known as Duzme Mustafa , associated by Husameddin with Seyh Bedreddin in the earlier " Melami " revolts . |
| 45 | The St Louis Globe-Democrat wrote , ‘ Now we have a young swoon actor , the idol of teenagers , caught in a marijuana party — a reefer smoking fest known to the trade as ‘ kicking the gong around ’ . ’ |
| 46 | It therefore looks as though Swegen wintered in England , and in the following spring perhaps went plundering in the Irish Sea , for one of the versions of the Welsh chronicle known as the Annales Cambriæ records the harrying of the Isle of Man by a Swegen son of Harald in a year which is likely to be 995 . |
| 47 | Paddy End Vein was the first to be cut in these levels and its course can easily be seen in the cliff or scar to the west of Levers Water where ancient mining has left a conspicuous cleft known as Simon 's Nick . |
| 48 | However , despite its firm footing in the industrial world , the works had a frequent visitor from another plane , a ghostly figure known as ‘ Humphrey ’ . |
| 49 | For nearly twenty centuries , the figure known as Judas Iscariot — Judas the Sicarius — has been accursed and despised , cast in the role of most heinous of villains . |
| 50 | The solo man and woman are always accompanied by a masked figure known in China as ‘ the Eternal One ’ and in England as ‘ the Messenger of Death ’ . |
| 51 | In fact , it is a latter-day version of the figure known in classical rhetoric as prosopopoeia . |
| 52 | In feeling , though not in detail , this stands closer perhaps to another figure known in many copies through which a really great original seems to shine : ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ ( fig. 81 ) , after the scholar who reconstructed her from copies of the head ( known by a quaint tradition as ‘ Aspasia ’ ) and of the body , one with a Roman portrait-head . |
| 53 | The military escort team , commanded by a young corporal known to his friends as ‘ Flat Top ’ , swings into action . |
| 54 | ‘ Ms Redd Harvest of the Turner-Harvest-Ramirez Agency has just announced that the suspect apprehended in Nome , Alaska , last week in connection with the thirty-eight-state murder spree of the serial killer known as ‘ The Tasmanian Devil ’ has been definitely connected with four hundred and eighteen of the Devil 's six hundred and forty-two confirmed kills to date . |
| 55 | The imagination of Presley has been rendered uncomfortable by the presence of the serial killer known as Pitchfork Disney . |
| 56 | The EEC has evolved a mechanism for raising revenue known as ‘ own resources ’ . |
| 57 | Roach is a busy man : as well as continuing work with his quartet ( currently touring the UK ) , his double quartet , a percussion ensemble known as M'Boom and a forthcoming collaboration on a play about the Harlem Renaissance , he 's also involved with New York rappers in a project called From Bebop to Hiphop and Then There 's Max . |
| 58 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
| 59 | The spacious railway carriage known as The Anna Karenina is available for charters by private groups of two to eight passengers , allowing an extensive tour of Russia in considerable style and comfort . |
| 60 | It is one of the several enzymes involved in the central process of a cell 's metabolism known as the citric acid or Krebs cycle . |