Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] known " in BNC.

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1 In the eighteenth century , British teachers such as Henry Baker and Thomas Braidwood used oralism as part of a combined system which is nowadays known as Total Communication .
2 What you have made is one of the very simplest double bed slip patterns , which is confusingly known as ‘ Pin-Tuck ’ .
3 The Cynosurus cristatus — Centaurea nigra meadow , which is also known from the seaboard of western Scotland .
4 It is a law of physics that like attracts like , a principle which is also known in science as resonance .
5 The depth of these deposits varies from less than 10 m to more than 200 m and the major drainage system is that of the Huanghe River , which is also known as the Yellow River since it carries a huge volume of yellow silt from the Loess plateau into the Yellow Sea .
6 In the pasture ( which is also known as a ley , ie. a temporary pasture ) will grow lots of clover , chicory and deep rooted herbs .
7 Another favoured scale is the Harmonic minor and its assocaited modes — particularly mode 4 ( the melody of Crushing Day is an example of this ‘ minor lydian ’ sounding scale ) and mode 5 , which is also known as the ‘ phrygian dominant ’ or ‘ Spanish phrygian ’ .
8 ONE of the most graceful of all the Spring bulbs is the Snakeshead Fritillary ( Fritillaria meleagris ) , which is also known as the Chequered Lily .
9 I have already spoken of the term ‘ shepherding ’ , which is well known in house churches , even in our own country .
10 The measurement of success as a factor of control must be clearly established and related to either predetermined criteria or a performance measure which is well known .
11 Take a trip to Karolinka which is well known in Czechoslovakia for its glass production and watch the glassware being made and maybe take the opportunity of buying some of its produce at very reasonable prices .
12 The usual test that is given for this is the Snellen chart for visual acuity , which is well known to anyone who has had a routine medical examination .
13 This is one of the group of ‘ grey geese ’ which is well known as a wintering bird on the mainland of Britain , and almost the whole of the European population breeds in Iceland .
14 The diversity of the components of a textile effluent is very great , probably only matched or exceeded by that of the tanning industry , which is well known for its variability .
15 I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head .
16 The prevalent merchant culture in the early Italian city-republics , notably in Florence — one of the largest cities in Europe at the time and one which is well known for its lauda tradition — provided the ideal climate for the development of the lay companies .
17 The wide strip will contain a language pattern which is well known to the pupils , eg give him the large book .
18 This could be coordinated with a campaign in the community press with us supplying copy ready material written under the banner of Media Action which is well known to both the newspapers and their readers .
19 WACC has long-standing connections with the Center , which is best known for its quarterly magazine Media&Values .
20 It began that division of agricultural England into a high-wage North and a low-wage South which is best known from Sir James Caird 's map drawn when the dichotomy was at its peak in 1850 .
21 As in any second language situation , the grammatical code which is relied on is the one which is already known .
22 If we provide information which is already known to the receiver , then we are too long-winded ; if we take knowledge for granted , we are too brief .
23 The user has attempted to reserve a module name which is already known to LIFESPAN .
24 The preferred version must be a version of the module which is already known to LIFESPAN .
25 A striking example of this is the Cakile maritima - Honkenya peploides community which is otherwise known as the Mertensio-Atriplicetum laciniatae association , from which Mertensia is nearly always absent in Scotland !
26 What we need to do is to add a drug called Anapril Which is otherwise known as Inavase and somewhere , but somewhere we have a Brilliant , it 's gone again .
27 By the end of the ninth century many Hellenistic scientific and technological works had been translated into Arabic , including Ptolemy 's great astronomical book Syntaxis , which is usually known today by its Arabic title The Almagest .
28 In practice , however , the molecules tend to break apart : one of the Hs , carrying a positive electric charge , becomes detached from the remaining OH , which is then known as a hydroxyl radical , and carries a negative electric charge .
29 ( It should be noted that the name ‘ schlieren ’ is occasionally used to refer to optical methods in general rather than this specific one , which is then known as the Topler-schlieren method . )
30 Certain plants have Gaelic names which assign particular qualities to them , such as ‘ the beer plant ’ , which is commonly known as hop(s) ( Humulus lupulus ) .
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