Example sentences of "be well know " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's amazing how many people are prepared to meet you if you 're well known . |
| 2 | Er reading old books there the they talk about the and er around and the beds and all that you know and the jollity people they 're well known about it . |
| 3 | Women wear saris and I 'm well known for my spicy food . |
| 4 | ‘ Like all Sards , I 'm well known for my gallantry . ’ |
| 5 | St Colum seems to have attracted legends around himself wherever he went , for as Columba he used to be well known to every Scottish schoolboy for converting the King of the Picts , banishing water horses and other praiseworthy acts . |
| 6 | The overall standard of authors and papers is high and contributors such as L. Bretherick V.C. Marshall and T. Kletz will be well known to readers . |
| 7 | It will be difficult to avoid noticing the work of primary schools that are effectively marketing themselves , their reputation will be well known and their efforts highly publicised . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no particular guidance on this problem because it should be well known by the industries that use [ the gas ] , ’ said a spokesman last week . |
| 9 | The ideas of problem solving appear to be well known or obvious , but most of us will be able to recall situations where we spent hours or days on a problem whose solution was ‘ obvious ’ once we found it . |
| 10 | As he calls every week — and is likely to be well known to the neighbours too — he will get his money even if the local authority and fuel boards do n't get theirs . |
| 11 | Nina Miklin will be well known to many club members but anyone who has not been able to attend one of her talks will be pleased to hear they now have a chance to go to a choice of two workshops . |
| 12 | The hospital appears to be well known and popular with local residents and therefore a vast amount of acute work … is undertaken . ’ |
| 13 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 14 | Although Stevenson 's main work , Ethics and Language , is supposed to be well known , it is an under-rated and often misrepresented work , accounts of which in books on moral philosophy are often little more than parodies . |
| 15 | THE ballad of Idwal Slabs may be well known in literary circles . |
| 16 | John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions . |
| 17 | Mothers of young babies want the products they use in babycare to be absolutely " right " ; either ( i ) the product should be well known , widely recognised and easy to understand or ( ii ) it must have the endorsement of authoritative sources . |
| 18 | It is instructive that this literature appears not to be well known within UK child care services . |
| 19 | The personnel responsible for manufacturing will have no previous experience of the new problems : the problems of the previous product would be well known . |
| 20 | The factory will already be well known to Kirstie , as her father , John Armstrong , has worked at Stoddard for many years , and her sister Karen , works in Management Accounts . |
| 21 | The plaintiffs made a liqueur called advocaat which came to be well known . |
| 22 | We are beginning to be well known , Willi ! ’ |
| 23 | The genus Pentstemon is only found in the USA and will be well known to alpine gardeners who grow the sub-shrubby species in troughs , screes or rock gardens . |
| 24 | Frank Tate will be well known to you all , not only as a fine bass player , but as the architect of many special groups that have appeared in the Guinness Spot . |
| 25 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 26 | Yet the different types found on Jersey and Guernsey had long been well known in England , which had imported Jerseys ( under the Alderney name ) since at least 1789 . |
| 27 | ‘ He has always been well known for having a good and natural relationship with young people . |
| 28 | Miss Asshe had been well known . |
| 29 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 30 | Susan 's activities must have been well known to the police . ’ |