Example sentences of "[noun sg] [am/are] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those at a diocesan level are known as Consistory Courts ; ‘ chancellors ’ act as judges . |
| 2 | Those laws which are enacted by Parliament are known as statutory laws or legislation . |
| 3 | Bankrupt stars of this kind are known as White Dwarfs . |
| 4 | ‘ Your kind are known to us , Doctor , and have been for longer than you can imagine . ’ |
| 5 | Some achieved a considerable size In the Devonian rocks , fishes of this kind are known from ( mostly ) freshwater deposits in Scotland , Wales , Norway and arctic Canada . |
| 6 | Large figurines mainly thrown on the potter 's wheel and decorated in vase-painter 's technique are known from several Greek sites in the late Bronze Age ; and this may be a line where we shall one day be able to trace continuity of production through the dark ages . |
| 7 | After primary dispersal by a range of vertebrates in a dry-seasonal forest in Costa Rica , the fruits of F. hondurensis are known to be re-arranged by several ant species . |
| 8 | Infantry battalions equipped with Warrior are known as armoured infantry . |
| 9 | ( In Scotland , plaintiff and defendant are known as claimant and debtor , respectively . ) |
| 10 | Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon . |
| 11 | In this case the sclerites composing the tergum are known as tergites , those of the sternum as sternites , and those constituting each pleuron as pleurites . |
| 12 | The early phases of relapse in Alcoholism are know as " The Relapse Syndrome " or " The Dry-Drunk Syndrome " . |
| 13 | The Dryopithecini are known from 12 to 8Myr deposits in France , Austria , Germany , Spain and Hungary , and similar fossils from Georgia through to China have also been attributed to this genus . |
| 14 | Members of the Institute are known as ACIS ( associate ) and can ultimately become an FCIS ( fellow ) . |
| 15 | Indeed , many trees that look as though they might be adapted to wind pollination are known to be pollinated by insects — like Mallotus oppositifolius ( Euphorbiaceae ) in West Africa , which has an attractive sweet scent — and it has been suspected that even forest grasses are animal pollinated . |
| 16 | Stars of this type are known as recurrent novæ . |
| 17 | However , no finds of this type are known from Chedworth , although a number of agricultural implements were found in the excavations , including a plough-tip ; some other tools such as the spade-iron and mattock could have been used for gardening . |
| 18 | Rocks are classified chemically according to how much silica ( silicon dioxide ) they contain ; rocks with a lot of silica are known as acid . |
| 19 | Bonds issued and/or traded in the UK in a currency other than sterling are known as eurobonds . |
| 20 | ‘ Put it this way , ’ says D c Muggleton , ‘ Sixty-five per cent of all the antique dealers in this town are known to us . ’ |
| 21 | Variants of this device are known in several other mosaics : again , in the Hunting Dogs mosaic ( pI . |
| 22 | The bacteria involved in this process are known as chemolithotrophs because they have the ability to produce energy for growth from the oxidation of inorganic sulphurous compounds . |
| 23 | The whole process of matching the needs of lenders and borrowers is known as ‘ financial intermediation ’ , and the institutions which play a part in this process are known as ‘ financial intermediaries ’ ( see Fig. 17.1 ) . |
| 24 | These anti-deterrent effects of punishment are known as ‘ labelling effects ’ . |
| 25 | Securities that are sold at a discount , pay no interest explicitly , and mature at par are known as pure discount securities . |
| 26 | This little band are know as the Medieval Heritage Society , a re-enactment group with a strange desire to give people a glimpse of life in the 1450's . |
| 27 | None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper . |
| 28 | Symptom criteria for the irritable bowel syndrome are known as the Rome criteria . |
| 29 | The localized regions of turbulence are known as turbulent spots . |
| 30 | Numerous people arrested after the army assault on Tiananmen Square are known to be still imprisoned , even though Beijing may not classify them either as students or political prisoners . |