Example sentences of "best [vb pp] for [pron] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |
| 2 | Included in the sale is James Burrough , best known for its Beefeater gin , which was bought by Whitbread little more than two years ago ; the Buckingham Wile Company , which distributes Beefeater , Cutty Sark Scotch , and Benedictine in the US ; and the Atlas Peak vinyards in California . |
| 3 | Originally a manufacturer of board-level products , Tadpole is now best known for its Sparcbook notebook which uses the Sun Microsystems Inc RISC . |
| 4 | Didcot in Oxfordshire is a town best known for its power station , so it probably does n't figure in most people 's top ten tourist destinations . |
| 5 | Also featured in the play , as the bank manager and his wife , were Anthony Valentine and Canadian actress Linda Thorson , best known for her TV role as Tara King in The Avengers . |
| 6 | She is perhaps best known for her book South Riding which was based locally . |
| 7 | There was also a bespectacled Cambridge undergraduate , aged twenty-two called Bamber Gascoigne — later to be best known for his TV quiz show success University Challenge . |
| 8 | Dutch painter , best known for his genre scenes ; his early paintings depict lively scenes of peasants carousing in crowded taverns and barns . |
| 9 | The screenplay for this film was written specially for Sir Alec by Roy Clarke , best known for his comedy series , Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping up Appearances . |
| 10 | Best known for his boxing knowledge , he reported many top-class fights for The Scotsman . |