Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only branch of academic analysis which , by virtue of its title , might have been thought to represent a candidate for this specific area of study is that sub-section of anthropology known as material culture studies . |
| 2 | " Trust him to land a good catch on his first day out , " he muttered to himself , and watched as the boat struck her sails and picked up her mooring , which was marked by a pig 's bladder float with a feather on it , a stone 's throw offshore in the stretch of water known as Polruan 's Pool . |
| 3 | The genes of prokaryotes have a straightforward structure , consisting of uninterrupted strands of DNA , whereas the genes of eukaryotes are interrupted by apparently nonsensical sequences of DNA known as introns . |
| 4 | DAI research with interest to know about the parallel developments in DDB 's |
| 5 | DDB research with interest to know about the parallel developments in DAI . |
| 6 | Unlike HARPY , all the strategies fall into the category of algorithm known as best-first . |
| 7 | The viticultural zone occupies that part of Champagne known as the falaises or Champagne cliffs . |
| 8 | I shall come into Béarn from the Soule by way of Tardets and through a small , thoroughly bucolic bit of country known as the Barétous . |
| 9 | Initial decisions on entitlement were made by employees of the Board of Trade known as insurance officers . |
| 10 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 11 | Now I know you probably grown every variety of potato known to man and cooked most of them , so let's have some information from you . |
| 12 | Mr Gorbachev had said there were no longer prisoners convicted for political or religious beliefs , and most prisoners of conscience known to the West had been released . |
| 13 | On mathematics itself he published only eight pages , in ‘ On a Problem of Formal Logic ’ ( 1928 ) , but this subsequently became the basis of a whole branch of mathematics known as Ramsey theory . |
| 14 | For two thousand years and more the branch of philosophy known as metaphysics had dealt with arguments and proofs about the existence and nature of God , his relation to the world and human beings , and such related matters as human freedom and life beyond death . |
| 15 | The trial of 22 managers of the Thanh Huong perfume factory , charged in connection with the " biggest case of fraud known to date " , involving 153,000 million dong , concluded on Oct. 27 . |
| 16 | They are separated by sacs of fluid known as the inter vertebral discs . |
| 17 | Wherever possible he uses machinery to help speed up the process but this is limited to a band-saw , a lathe and a thick strip of metal known as a bending iron . |
| 18 | Recent developments in a field of study known as Chaos Theory has focused attention on elements in natural shapes called ‘ fractals ’ . |
| 19 | Two hundred years would have passed since the Maestro Sartori had attempted , and failed , to perform the greatest act of magic known to this or any other Dominion . |
| 20 | He received a ban some years ago for losing his temper while playing in that veritable hive of provocation known as Australian grade cricket , and this latest ruckus began , apparently , when Marcus Wight ( whose father , the umpire , Peter , should have taught him better ) proffered a few choice words of his won upon dismissing Ramprakash in the first innings . |
| 21 | Have you heard of a type of problem known as NP-complete ? ’ |
| 22 | Thallium poisoning created a set of symptoms exactly matching a series found in a type of polyneuritis known as the Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 23 | Now , instead of the bands gradually spreading to fill the gaps , there is a particular voltage at which the gaps are suddenly filled ( a type of change known as a ‘ crisis ’ ) . |
| 24 | South of Loch Hourn is the wilderness of Knoydart known as the Rough Bounds , a region entirely without motor roads and having only a few lonely and unfrequented tracks through the mountain fastnesses . |
| 25 | Here the Pacific Plate , bowed , stretched and strained by its westward movement , is moving away from its neighbour — in this case a relatively small fragment of lithosphere known as the Nazca plate . |
| 26 | This made the limitations clause even more interesting , for the older man ( and no doubt his ancestral assumer ) had quite obviously used not a swepe or balista as the charge , but an almost identical engine of war known as a mangonel , in witty and canting allusion to the family name as used by them . |
| 27 | It is the sort of thing known by its fruit ; and by the second half of the nineteenth century conservation of matter and of energy were such effective assumptions that they were generally taken for established truths . |
| 28 | The Temple of Luxor , with its distinctive columns shaped like bundles of papyrus , overlooks the tree-lined waterfront of the Nile ; close by is the massive complex of Karnak , the largest place of worship known to man , an intricate combination of ram-headed sphinxes , labyrinth passageways and chambers , whose detail has hardly been affected by the elements over thousands of years . |
| 29 | If the motor is operating at a stepping rate f then the excitation cycle repeats at a frequency 1/4 and therefore the angular frequency of the excitation cycle is : During each excitation cycle the rotor moves one tooth pitch ( =2/p ) in a time 2/w , so the average rotor velocity is given by : Integrating this equation with respect to time : where 6 is a constant of integration known as the load angle . |
| 30 | On the slopes of the Songshan mountains , in the northern Chinese province of Honan , lies the legendary Shaolin temple , where the sect of Buddhism known as Zen in Japan and Cha'n in China began . |