Example sentences of "as [pron] is known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other examples of biological control , as it is known , are the use of encarsia parasites to eradicate glasshouse whitefly , and Bacillus thuringiensis , a natural bacteria that kills cabbage caterpillars . |
| 2 | The Laser project , as it is known , has its supporters in the government though Mr Chirac is not one of them . |
| 3 | ( The Cincinatti Corollary , as it is known , is to stay in the departure lounge until the aircraft leaves . |
| 4 | This implied that only in the sphere of the mathematical sciences can the human intellect attain knowledge that is as objective and as certain as it is known to the divine mind . |
| 5 | The M2 , or Alligator as it is known in West German service , is a vehicle the size of an average forty-five-seater passenger coach , and is essentially a self-propelled bridging pontoon . |
| 6 | Yet here in the Golden Crescent , as it is known , there are no Colombia-style confrontations . |
| 7 | Mr Terry Roberts , a district public health adviser , started the Aids Truck , as it is known by its clients , two years ago . |
| 8 | Despite its readability the Principles , as it is known , was neither well received nor , in Berkeley 's view , properly understood . |
| 9 | VHAF , as it is known in the trade , is being given a rigorous fitness test by the Football League Playing Surfaces Committee . |
| 10 | It was noted that the rising of the Nile occurred when the last star to appear on the horizon , before dawn obscures all stars , was the dog star Sothis , or Sirius as it is known to us . |
| 11 | If you do not know your term-time address at the time of registration please notify your Faculty Office and the University Registry of your address as soon as it is known . |
| 12 | The standard glow switch , as it is known , has been given a paradoxical new life by the recent arrival of energy-saving lamps . |
| 13 | It now costs significantly less to buy a computer — or a ‘ work station ’ as it is known in the trade — than it does to pay someone to sit behind it . |
| 14 | Mauchline Ware , as it is known , irrespective of where it was made , was produced for over 100 years and in that time millions of items must have been manufactured and distributed around the world . |
| 15 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |
| 16 | Participation by the manufacturing industry in the eco-audit scheme , as it is known , will be voluntary . |
| 17 | When the news of his victory in the Battle of Lagos , as it is known , reached London on 6 September even the perpetually anxious Duke of Newcastle gave way to optimism . |
| 18 | His brief at the new Ministry for National Heritage — of Fun and Tourism ( Fat ) , as it is known in Whitehall — embraces the BBC . |
| 19 | Animal protein , or first class protein as it is known , contains all eight essential amino acids which the body depends on for good health . |
| 20 | It was during the eighteenth century that madeira wine as it is known today came into being . |
| 21 | ‘ I DID N'T think that Chester would have a homeless problem ’ , is a comment we hear quite often , says Father Tim Dowling , Father Guardian of St Francis 's Church and Honorary Secretary of Chester Aid to the Homeless , CATH , as it is known for short , is a registered charity , which this year notches up 20 years of working with homeless people . |
| 22 | While ‘ the Ten ’ , as it is known in the trade , is having its most successful year since 1986 with an average 7.2 million viewers , it can not rest on its laurels . |
| 23 | It is important for people with HIV to try and keep as healthy as possible as it is known that a balanced diet , rest and relaxation can help to strengthen the immune system . |
| 24 | Gestuno , as it is known , was developed by the World Federation of the Deaf for use at international conferences of deaf people . |
| 25 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 26 | This process of ‘ tarnishing ’ , as it is known , can be aesthetically very pleasing . |
| 27 | MPW , as it is known , is currently the most popular college in London , according to John Murrell , ‘ though Davies Laing & Dick is coming up fast ’ . |
| 28 | The French manufactured Dassault-Breguet Mystère 20 , or Falcon 20 as it is known in the United States , is one of the most versatile executive jets flying in the world today . |
| 29 | The Pazyryk ( or Altai ) carpet , as it is known , is of crucial importance ; not only does it confirm the existence of highly sophisticated hand-knotted rugs during the first millennium BC , it also strengthens the belief that rug-making was widespread through the Middle East and Central Asia , because the design is an almost exact replica of one found on a paving slab in the Assyrian royal palace at Nineveh , nearly three thousand miles away . |
| 30 | Soon after I went to Cambridge , I was diagnosed as having ALS , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , or motor neurone disease , as it is known in England . |