Example sentences of "[subord] it [is] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This phenomenon also arises in the field of insurance where it is known as adverse selection . |
| 2 | In southern France , where it is known as pistou , it is often an accompaniment to roast lamb . |
| 3 | This is a game played by most children in West Africa , where it is known as warri or by other local names . |
| 4 | The new product was tested in 1988 and launched in the UK in 1989 and has since been launched in Ireland , Australia and in Canada and the USA , where it is known as Pub Draught Guinness . |
| 5 | The Tate Gallery 's exhibition continues this process of reassessment through a selection of those earlier works dating before 1960 and including a rare coloured canvas , ‘ Untitled ( Orange Painting ) ’ , which was created in 1955–59 and has never been shown , although it is known from illustrations in catalogues . |
| 6 | It should be borne in mind , however , that if repeat sequences are to be probed , or if it is known to which chromosome or approximate chromosome region the repetitive or the unique sequences map , procedures can be simplified . |
| 7 | Dame Gillian Brown thanked the speakers with great enthusiasm , congratulated the Principal on ensuring the succession , and also thanked Patricia Hutchinson and Mary Keen for a successful meeting , and the University Womens ' Club ( worth joining even if it is known as Pussy Cat Hall by my irreverent 88 year old cousin , a St. Hugh 's gal ) gave us rather a good tea . |
| 8 | An order for payment of money or for the transfer of assets can not be an order intended to restore parties to transactions to their former positions unless it is known in relation to each transaction in question ( a ) who were the parties ( b ) what the nature of the transaction was and ( c ) what assets or money each party to the transaction had paid or transferred to the others . |
| 9 | ‘ Purposive sampling ’ occurs when a researcher chooses a particular group or place to study because it is known to be of the type that is wanted . |
| 10 | The project concentrates on the accurate modelling of female labour market behaviour because it is known to be considerably more sensitive to changes in the structure of incentives than is the case for males . |
| 11 | A full survey of the Braer will be needed before it is known for certain no oil remains , but a survey can not be carried out until the weather is suitable , which could take up to three months . |
| 12 | Purely from a financial perspective , have you any idea how much more valuable the cottage will be when it 's known to be one of Piers 's creations ? ’ |
| 13 | Settlement can be downward , or upward ( when it is known as ‘ heave ’ ) . |
| 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 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The art of coastal navigation , or pilotage , as it is known to seamen , can be an interesting but often tricky business . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Terry Roberts , a district public health adviser , started the Aids Truck , as it is known by its clients , two years ago . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Founded in 1980 , the ILD , as it is known by its Spanish acronyms , has proposed better ways for the government and the informals to iron out their problems . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | VHAF , as it is known in the trade , is being given a rigorous fitness test by the Football League Playing Surfaces Committee . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His brief at the new Ministry for National Heritage — of Fun and Tourism ( Fat ) , as it is known in Whitehall — embraces the BBC . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | How can the Secretary of State for the Environment be environmentally benign when he is introducing the Heseltax , as it is known in Wolverhampton , and disastrous standard spending assessment being inflicted on Wolverhampton ? |
| 30 | The tahki , as it is known in Mongolia , is thought to have become extinct in the wild . |