Example sentences of "is [adv] known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Morton became a millionaire , thanks to the runaway success of ‘ that book ’ as his Diana : Her True Story is apparently known in royal circles . |
| 2 | Rudbeckia fulgida deamii is better known as black-eyed Susan |
| 3 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 4 | For example , Academician Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is better known in certain circles as Igor ‘ Obmanilovich ’ Grabar . |
| 5 | Whether we get linguistic ability from our genes , or by imitating others or just from general intelligence is not known for sure . |
| 6 | Exactly what happened is not known for certain , but the most likely scenario is that Crabb was intercepted by Russian frogmen and taken on board the Ordzhonikidze through a ‘ wet chamber ’ . |
| 7 | Even if the exact number of rounds in the game is not known for certain , in real life it is often possible to make a statistical guess as to how much longer the game is likely to last . |
| 8 | It is not known for certain at what moment of time afterwards she looked at her fingers , in order to gaze admiringly at the ring . |
| 9 | It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond . |
| 10 | The exact date is not known for certain , but is either July 12th or 19th 1958 . |
| 11 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |
| 12 | Meetings of these Anonymous Fellowships can be described but precisely why the process works is not known in scientific terms . |
| 13 | Hollein is best known to New Yorkers for the townhouse on East 79th Street he renovated in the late Sixties to house Richard Feigen 's gallery ( it 's now the Hanae Mori shop ) . |
| 14 | Val Taylor is best known in equestrian circles as the person every horse with a toothache wants to know . |
| 15 | Gilford is best known in European golf for being the ‘ name ’ in the envelope at the 1991 Ryder Cup match . |
| 16 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 17 | Leaving these ( and other ) theoretical generalizations aside for the moment , we turn first to the history of what is usually known as short /a/ in English , and to possible historical patterns of overlap and merger with /Ε/; and /α/.; |
| 18 | One of the main reasons is that the connections between terminals and host computers are telecommunication links , usually simple coaxial cables , with what is technically known as low band width . |
| 19 | Cardinal Hume has not only the cross of being a fervent Newcastle United supporter to bear ; he is also known to irreverent members of Mayfair 's Jesuit Farm Street Church by his initials , George Basil Hume . |
| 20 | This is also known as negative carry or negative funding . |
| 21 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 22 | The former means that the machine recognises the writing while the user writes , and is also known as dynamic or real-time recognition , although the recognition will lag behind the writer to a certain extent . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ? |
| 24 | Typologies such as traditionalism , rationalism , affectivity , industrialism , and many , many more , all reflect what is now known as variable analytic thinking . |
| 25 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 26 | Later , what is now known as National music was composed by such musicians as the Czechs Smetana and Dvorak , the Hungarian Liszt , the Norwegian Grieg , the Spanish Granados , Albeniz and De Falla , the Polish Chopin and , finally , the English Elgar and Vaughan-Williams . |
| 27 | The main kinds of setae and their modifications are listed below ; the structure of some is now known in great detail through the use of specialized optical techniques and of the scanning and transmission electron microscopes ( e.g. Baker and McCrae , 1966–67 ; Evans , 1967 ; Hale and Smith , 1966 ; Lippert and Gentil , 1959 ; Lukoschus , 1962 ; Picken , 1949 ) . |
| 28 | It is often known as ideal or agathistic utilitarianism . |
| 29 | This type of warning signal is today known as Batesian Mimicry . |
| 30 | In the eighteenth century , British teachers such as Henry Baker and Thomas Braidwood used oralism as part of a combined system which is nowadays known as Total Communication . |