Example sentences of "as it [is] [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS .
2 Sasse , as it is generally known , is the oldest secondary school in the Cameroon Republic by a good ten years .
3 TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties .
4 I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of .
5 In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level .
6 Someone looking after a partner or relative with Alzheimer 's disease — or senile dementia as it is also known — has particular problems .
7 The Chardonnay is particularly prone to ‘ fan-leaf ’ or court-noué , as it is also known .
8 The threat posed by toxocariasis , or visceral larval migrans , as it is also known , is relatively slight with about 10 cases a year being recorded in England and Wales , as an example .
9 In the first , primary visual cortex , V1 or area 17 , as it is also known , there was considered to be a fairly faithful map of the retina with relatively little recoding of information having taken place between the eye and this part of the brain .
10 Pravda , the leading anti-Yeltsin newspaper in Moscow , has printed excerpts of what it claims is a memo from Mr Primakov , dated March 21st 1992 , in which the spook outlined the properties of red mercury , or mercuric salt of antimonous acid as it is also known , in detail .
11 This oracle speaks of a brother as the instrument of death , which fits with the case as it is yet known .
12 Classes at the ‘ City Lit ’ , as it is affectionately known , are handled by a highly competent team of tutors , many of whom teach at the drama schools too .
13 Only one horse , Mandarin , has won both the Gold Cup and the ‘ Grand Steep ’ as it is affectionately known .
14 I suggest that the general public also regard statements about animal tested products with caution , as it is well known that many of these products have had extremely adverse effects on human beings .
15 The last category is anyone under the influence of alcohol , as it is well known that the mental faculties of such people are often impaired , even if only temporarily .
16 This date is too late for the birth of Jesus as it is well known that Jesus was born in the reign of Herod the Great , who died in 4 BC .
17 Based on research done at Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre or , PARC as it is widely known , the Apple Lisa was the first commercial micro to take these concepts to the mass market .
18 The town also boasts , in its main street , a remarkable seventeenth-century mansion , the Freuler Mansion or Palace as it is locally known , built for a local man who acquired riches in the service of the French crown as a colonel of mercenaries ( a not uncommon employment for the Swiss in those days ) .
19 The terms of reference are reproduced here in full because they provide an interesting example where the overall objective behind the policy development is clear — improved financial results or , in other words , reducing the size of the state subsidy or Public Service Obligation as it is correctly known .
20 By this time , Edinburgh had emerged as the recognized centre of " the Female Question " ( as it is always known in the union literature ) .
21 Page , as it is always known , remains enthralled by the country , returning to it frequently to photograph and document the Vietnamese struggle to return to normality .
22 Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year .
23 Solanum tuberosum , or the potato as it is better known , has a history both ancient and glorious .
24 ‘ The step ’ , as it is better known , is one of the most popular and effective fitness crazes to sweep across the Atlantic from the USA .
25 In this latter case it is important to realise that we should expect to get true hyphenated justification or H&J as it is commonly known .
26 The reading lexicon ( or ‘ visual input lexicon ’ as it is sometimes known ) contains our knowledge of written English word forms .
27 This traditional form of taxation remains in an amended form for non-domestic ratepayers but domestic rates have been replaced by the community charge , or poll tax as it is popularly known .
28 To this day , the Royal Association for the Deaf ( R.A.D. — as it is now known ) retains a considerable influence in the affairs of deaf people in London and surrounding counties whilst the B.D.A. has poor support in the region .
29 It may have had a more sinister purpose later , as it is now known as The Whipping Stone .
30 Ronell avoids the trap by proceeding in ever-decreasing circles — or fractal geometry , as it is now known .
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