Example sentences of "[art] process know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique of splitting water to release chemical energy is half of the process known as photosynthesis . |
| 2 | They stop the process known as mitosis , in which the chromatin of the nucleus is divided into precisely matching portions for each daughter cell . |
| 3 | That was just the opposite of Roux 's result and was the first clear demonstration of the process known as regulation : the ability of the embryo to develop normally even when some portions are removed or rearranged . |
| 4 | Their technique is to look for the process known as ‘ inverse beta decay ’ , in which an electron- anti neutrino reacts with a proton to produce a positron ( positive electron ) and a neutron . |
| 5 | This is because of the process known as plate tectonics . |
| 6 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
| 7 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 8 | Laws which are derived from cases , by the process known as judicial precedent , form the common law . |
| 9 | The curds were left to settle to the bottom of the vat , a process known as pitching . |
| 10 | It respires anaerobically , by a process known as fermentation ; breaking down sugars to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol . |
| 11 | A process known as saponification . |
| 12 | Oxidising agents : are chemicals which alter the chemical composition of dirt by a process known as oxidisation usually by contributing oxygen or chlorine to the dirt . |
| 13 | This is a process known as denaturisation |
| 14 | A process known as scrapping . |
| 15 | Of equal importance are signals between groups of cells , a process known as induction , which historically at least , is considered to be the major mode of interaction in the development of embryos . |
| 16 | The code for a particular protein is first copied by a process known as transcription into a complementary molecule , messenger-RNA , which is also made up of four nucleotides . |
| 17 | When this occurs , Tukey suggests removing half the number of exact zeros and then basing all subsequent calculations on the modified set of residuals , a process known as zero-modifying ( Tukey 1977:223 ) . |
| 18 | This is achieved by a process known as blurring . |
| 19 | Many different component causes can add together to produce a particular outcome , a process known as multiple causality . |
| 20 | Most financial intermediaries are thus involved in a process known as maturity transformation whereby deposits generally have a shorter term than have their loans . |
| 21 | The Davy lamp was the direct result of the mine owners ' concern to recover coal , not from deeper shafts but from existing workings that were inaccessible because of a process known as ‘ creep ’ . |
| 22 | But a nucleus can in other circumstances emit an electron in a process known as beta decay , which occurs via the weak nuclear interaction ( figure 1a ) . |
| 23 | Plastics and other synthetic materials release small amounts of volatile chemicals — a process known as ‘ de-gassing ’ . |
| 24 | A process known as thermal polymerization probably linked amino acids to form proteins ( the basis of the plastics industry is to use polymerization to assemble related molecules into chains called polymers ) . |
| 25 | Unlike their relatives the gibbons , orangs do not leap , though they can swing from tree to tree , a process known as brachiation . |
| 26 | Thus , social skills involve assessing the skills of the other person , a process known as mutual construing . |
| 27 | These plate margins are of three types : ( 1 ) divergent , where crustal material moves apart , under the oceans by a process known as sea-floor spreading ; ( 2 ) convergent , where one plate plunges down into the underlying mantle ( also known as subduction zones ) ; ( 3 ) transform faults , where one plate slides laterally with respect to its neighbour , crust being here neither created ( 1 ) nor destroyed ( 2 ) ( Fig. 18.1 ) . |
| 28 | For example , the neocortex is connected to the thalamus in such a way that destruction of part of the cortex causes cells in a corresponding part of the thalamus to die , a process known as ‘ retrograde degeneration ’ . |
| 29 | Ablation of area 17 leads to almost total loss of cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate body , a process known as retrograde degeneration . |
| 30 | Even in a large population , very few individuals may be free of any deleterious mutations ; if this fittest class fails to leave descendents , it can never be recovered , and the mean fitness of the population will decline irreversibly , in a process known as ‘ Muller 's ratchet ’ . |