Example sentences of "[adv] know for its [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am delighted to hear that St Nicholas ' Church , long known for its association with sailors and the sea , is launching an appeal to create a special maritime chapel , something the city has lacked for a very long time . |
| 2 | The tsarist threat receded in 1867 , when Russia sold Alaska to the United States , and the doctrine subsequently became better known for its challenge to the perceived intention of the European Holy Alliance to help Spain reconquer its former colonies . |
| 3 | Birthright is a charity which funds research projects to improve the health of women and their babies , and is best known for its work on pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 4 | Now , Harwell laboratory is best known for its contribution to nuclear research but the scientist there have revealed a secret life . |
| 5 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 6 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 7 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 8 | Somewhere in the middle is the approach — typified by the TSB Environmental Investor Fund , best known for its association with television personality Dr David Bellamy — which avoids investing in companies if they are substantially involved in , or have a material interest in polluting ( or military ) activities , but may invest in those which are , trying to avoid pollution . |
| 9 | Sheffield was already known for its knives by the fourteenth century — Chaucer refers to the miller in The Canterbury Tales as carrying a ‘ Sheffield thwitel ’ ( a large knife ) . |
| 10 | Not only are the men and women involved people of remarkable courage and strength , but unlike Imperial Typewriters or Spiralynx it is a strike of black workers in an area well known for its tradition of left wing trade union organisation . |
| 11 | Well known for its preservation of textiles , leather and tablets . |
| 12 | The village will be a huddle of 100 American-style houses designed by Wigfall Group Practice , a firm already well known for its addiction to timber-frame construction . |
| 13 | The allegations that Mr Singh , a former Congress ( I ) finance minister , had stashed millions of dollars in a numbered St Kitts account , were made in August in the Arab Times of Kuwait , not previously known for its scoops about India . |