Example sentences of "is known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There is another technique known as metabolic thermogenesis , which is a non-shivering method of producing adrenalin done with the aid of food , in what is known as calorigenic action .
2 One form would appear peculiar to them , and is known as potter 's asthma , or potter' s consumption .
3 This is known as Brownian motion .
4 This is known as Brownian motion .
5 The resulting company is known as Irish Fertilizer Industries , in which ICI has a 49 per cent stake .
6 Another aspect of the data that has not been adequately explained is known as odd-even staggering .
7 It is this that is known as meiotic drive .
8 The part of the town on the left bank of the Nive is known as Grand or Greater Bayonne , the part on the right bank as Petit or Lesser Bayonne .
9 The technique used for jumping in these numbers is known as static line parachuting .
10 In particular the branch of geometry which studies any smooth curved surface , which is known as differential geometry , has been applied with great success and has produced both new insights into correct statistical theory and has also produced many important new results .
11 In some such patients , speech production is not eliminated , but what is said is usually entirely meaningless and incomprehensible ( this syndrome is known as transcortical sensory aphasia ) .
12 In others , there is no spontaneous or elicited speech output ( this is known as transcortical motor aphasia ) .
13 Standard floating.point instructions normalize the result of each arithmetic operation ; this is known as post-normalization .
14 This treatment may be given by mouth ( when it is known as oral rehydration therapy or ORT ) or directly into the bloodstream in more serious cases .
15 This standard formula is known as Oral Rehydration Salts ( ORS ) .
16 This technique is known as laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy .
17 The technique outlined below is known as progressive muscular relaxation and is one of the easiest to master .
18 Elsewhere reference has been made to the difference between Spanish style and flamenco style ( see page 59 ) which belongs to the Spanish gipsies from whom has also developed what is known as gipsy character dance .
19 Although III/V substances such as GaAs and InGaAs are increasingly being used commercially , their usefulness is still constrained by what is known as final passivation — the last layer of the IC structure which protects the works against mechanical shocks and contamination ( for instance by water ) , and also provides electrical isolation .
20 This is known as course-related education .
21 This sequence of depolarisation continues till it reaches the end of the axon and is known as self-propagation .
22 This new approach is known as cognitive neuropsychology , and it attempts to explain the impairments which neuropsychological patients unfortunately experience within the vocabulary of cognitive psychology .
23 This process is known as lexical access .
24 This process is known as reverse osmosis .
25 The concentration of detergent , at which they form , is known as critical miscelle concentration ( CMC ) below which the detergent is of limited capacity .
26 This form of quantitative chemical analysis is known as gravimetric analysis .
27 Fundamental analysis is also known as investment analysis in the UK , while in the USA it is known as financial analysis or securities analysis .
28 All other methods involve what is known as accelerated depreciation because the depreciation is greater in the early years than the later years .
29 This phenomenon also arises in the field of insurance where it is known as adverse selection .
30 This characteristic is known as non-rivalry in consumption .
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