Example sentences of "[am/are] known [prep] " in BNC.

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2 Many video programmes will include such shots — they 're known as establishing shots .
3 On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September .
4 They 're known as Mal and Dan , which is probably as well .
5 They 're known as McCoys , they 're Branagan crisp , or K P ones .
6 We 're , we 're known as upper class teenagers .
7 I , I think we 'd have more effect if , if we 'd erm gave them in at the shop where we 're known by sight .
8 Cloudberries , or knoutberries as they 're known in the Dales , studded the moor , set amongst the dark fleshy green leaves like clusters of red beads .
9 I am known as Sideways Reynolds and I might have to cut back on the speed on the corners .
10 Low gravity beers are called ‘ light ’ — even when they are black or walnut brown in colour — medium gravity beers are called ‘ heavy ’ and strong beers are known as ‘ export ’ , recalling the heyday of Scottish brewing when companies such as Younger sold their beers extensively to North America , India and Australasia .
11 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 .
12 The structure of the igfet leads to what are known as surface states .
13 In the early days of cable , manual signalling was employed , using what are known as cable code signalling ( Fig. 3 . ) .
14 That their duvet cover is made of the Russian flag and the Union Jack can be passed by ; better are such details as the fact that Russians call spam ‘ Roosevelt smile ’ ; the question of whether Down 's syndrome chidren are known as Mongols in the USSR , and a dispute over private medicine : ‘ You think I 've fled 1,000 miles from scientific communism just to live with Mrs Engels ? ’ asks Slava .
15 Members of the Institute are known as ACIS ( associate ) and can ultimately become an FCIS ( fellow ) .
16 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 .
17 These are known as waiting days .
18 These days are known as waiting days .
19 Because there are no constraints placed upon the timing of the volunteer 's activities in such a time-free environment , these are called free-running experiments and the rhythms measured during them are known as free-running rhythms .
20 Infantry battalions equipped with Warrior are known as armoured infantry .
21 These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens .
22 Nasturtium seeds are edible and are known as ‘ poor man 's capers ’ .
23 Democrats tend to be free-marketeers ( known , confusingly , as the left ) , authoritarians tend to be central planners ( who are known as the right ) .
24 Ranitidine binds to H2-receptors in the gut wall , preventing a natural body-chemical , histamine , from binding to them ( such drugs are known as H2-antagonists ) .
25 These courts continued to exist till 1875 , and are known as the Common Law Courts .
26 Such bodies are known as corporations , or ( to distinguish them from the corporations sole , to be mentioned later ) corporations aggregate .
27 Besides the interests in land which are known as estates , and which , when they are present estates , give a right to possession of the land , English law , like other systems , recognizes rights of a more restricted kind .
28 Estates tail , which formerly could only be created out of freeholds , can now , as equitable interests , be created out of any kind of property ; they are known as ‘ entailed interests ’ , and can be barred not only inter vivos by a deed , but also by a will , provided that the tenant in tail 's interest is in possession , and provided that he specifically refers in his will to the entailed property or the instrument creating it .
29 These religious rites , performed only by women , are known as vratas .
30 The flowers of these can not be fertilised with their own pollen and are known as self-incompatible or self-sterile , whereas self-fertile ( self-compatible ) varieties set fruit without needing pollen from another tree .
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