Example sentences of "of [noun sg] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 2 | Its face has a strange convoluted patch of skin known as a nose-leaf , which contains heat-sensitive areas . |
| 3 | The viticultural zone occupies that part of Champagne known as the falaises or Champagne cliffs . |
| 4 | As for the Jews of the biblical period , they of course knew of Yavan , which designated all the Greeks rather than specifically the Ionians . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unlike HARPY , all the strategies fall into the category of algorithm known as best-first . |
| 7 | However , detinue was open to the very serious objection from the plaintiff 's point of view that the defendant could insist on the method of trial known as wager of law , i.e . |
| 8 | And the calm Sargasso Sea to the north of the Caribbean harbours huge floating mats of weed known as Sargassum . |
| 9 | Behind me , in the dark , was the similarly undisturbed sheet of crust known as the South American Plate . |
| 10 | These two states of the inner activity of integration giving way to the gift of contemplation are related to a complex of ideas inherited by the mystics about two modes of living known as " active " and " contemplative " . |
| 11 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 12 | Recent developments in a field of study known as Chaos Theory has focused attention on elements in natural shapes called ‘ fractals ’ . |
| 13 | The only other source of jadeite known from Asia was a relatively insignificant one in Japan . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | What nobody seemed to notice was that the text of Article 23 , by referring to ‘ pre-trial discovery of documents as known in Common Law countries ’ , and especially in omitting the earlier reference to discovery between the parties , covered some types of the form of discovery known in the United States , which is far wider in its scope than that known in other Common Law countries . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As for the different ‘ sort ’ of girl known to the loser : |
| 19 | After a Bible reading , usually by the headmaster , Mr Herbert Dennis , mornings consisted of six lesson periods , interrupted by a break during which the students queued up for two half slices of bread known as ‘ geordie . ’ |
| 20 | It has the loveliest of gardens and is situated in the residential area of Sorrento known as Sant' Agnello . |
| 21 | There is an official form of transfer known as Form 19(JP) , and this caters for a joint purchase . |
| 22 | Previously you had to be part of a quarrelsome , uneconomic unit of orthodoxy known as a church . |
| 23 | Negligence is part of an area of law known as tort . |
| 24 | In particular , a variant form of oxygen known as ozone , which exists mainly in the upper atmosphere of Earth , filters out most of the potentially dangerous W light ( see p. 89 ) . |
| 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 | Two of the employer 's staff were able to develop an improved form of circuitry known as the ‘ R ’ model , which became the subject of a patent application by the employer in 1981 . |
| 27 | The form of farming known as shifting cultivation has gone hand-in-hand with the clearances in New Guinea over , at least , the last 5000 years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , this solution does not address the problem of costs of delay known as demurrage which can be very substantial . |