Example sentences of "what [am/are] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some tile ranges still include what are known as insert tiles — tiles carrying moulded bathroom accessories such as soap dishes and toilet roll holders , though these are not as common or as popular as they once were . |
| 2 | The structure of the igfet leads to what are known as surface states . |
| 3 | In the early days of cable , manual signalling was employed , using what are known as cable code signalling ( Fig. 3 . ) . |
| 4 | The identity of what are known as ‘ human sources ’ within the republican community is among the most closely guarded secrets in the war against terrorism . |
| 5 | What are known as ‘ wet sources ’ are avoided . |
| 6 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 7 | And , of course , talk of cost must never overlook what are known as opportunity costs : time , effort , and money spent on one thing necessarily means a lost opportunity to spend them on something else , which may be of just as much value . |
| 8 | A further area of solar energy research uses the difference in potential are what are known as heat batteries or thermo-ionic cells . |
| 9 | I did understand that we had different levels of consciousness and that we normally run on what are known as beta-waves . |
| 10 | Most memory and logic chips used in industry are what are known as ‘ standards ’ . |
| 11 | Small groups of these cells become surrounded by collagen fibre bundles in what are known as micronodules . |
| 12 | Many of those who were using what are known as curly bows also shoot longbows . |
| 13 | To form the hemispherical shape of the traditional cupped parachute , the surface is divided into what are known as gores . |
| 14 | There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs . |
| 15 | Payments to him for his sick daughter Mary are included first in what are known as ‘ Church Extras ’ , then in the main list of relief to paupers . |
| 16 | Care should be taken in ensuring that any funds not immediately required for either the building of a new church or other charitable purposes are invested in what are known as qualifying investments as prescribed in Sch 20 Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 17 | With sex , or what are known as ‘ the facts of life ’ , it was different . |
| 18 | Making comparisons between species involves identifying what are known as homologous structures . |
| 19 | If you continue deferment , which as a woman you can do until 65 and as a man until 70 , you will earn what are known as ‘ increments ’ and your pension will be bigger when you receive it . |
| 20 | Another very important change concerns what are known as your preserved rights — in other words , your financial rights with regard to your pension . |
| 21 | A basic rule concerns what are known as your protected rights . |
| 22 | Another stratification system based just as exclusively on ascribed status attributes is characteristic of what are known as age-set societies . |
| 23 | This group , which included what are known as rural or quasi-samurai , was particularly numerous in a few important domains , such as Satsuma and Chóshú . |
| 24 | A good example of this arises in the study of children 's reasoning , particularly in their ability to make what are known as transitive inferences . |
| 25 | The 1974 Labour Government insisted that what are known as long-term benefits , such as old-age pensions and invalidity benefit , should increase in line with prices or earnings , whichever was the more advantageous for the claimants . |
| 26 | An important part of this secondary labour market is composed of what are known as flexible workers . |
| 27 | VAT is charged on what are known as taxable supplies . |
| 28 | Downstairs Scarlet put what are known as the ‘ last touches ’ to her dinner table , reflecting that this was a term an undertaker might employ in the course of his duties . |
| 29 | After the beginner has acquired the basic principles of kung fu and enough knowledge to string together simple one- and two-step techniques , he comes into contact with what are known as ‘ forms ’ . |
| 30 | CASHLINE machines are to be installed at several Sainsbury supermarkets as part of a Royal Bank plan to increase the number of ATMs at what are known as third party or remote locations . |