Example sentences of "the [adv] known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Doisneau : A Retrospective , over 350 of the photographer 's images , the little known alongside the familiar . |
| 2 | The windows of the van were wide open and they had the radio on , not playing rock , which they both hated , but Mozart , one of the better known of the piano concertos . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most ‘ modern ’ of the Restoration writers is George Farquhar ; period artifice is not so obtrusive in his plays , the best known of which are The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux Stratagem . |
| 4 | Karpov is the best known of the contestants . |
| 5 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 6 | Possibly the best known of these is the Mass of Reconciliation written for Coventry 25 years after the bombing ( a service which appeared on disc ) , and his association with the Three Choirs Festival which included his Te Deum in 1962 , his setting of ‘ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ’ at the opening service in 1977 , and the Benedicite ( in memory of Cecil Adams ) in 1986 . |
| 7 | One of the best known of Lindsay 's pieces of ‘ Higher Vaudeville ’ was ‘ The Congo ’ , which linked savage chants and jazz rhythms in a rather bathetically facile way that just misses being electrifying . |
| 8 | The best known of them was Dornford Yates , author of the now unreadable but once hugely read Berry and Co stories . |
| 9 | Cottage , cream and curd cheeses are probably the best known of the fresh cheeses of Britain . |
| 10 | Crowdie is the best known of the Scottish fresh cheeses . |
| 11 | Many of its contemporaries , such as Coverdale and Swaledale , which never transferred to large-scale factory production , have recently been revived , but Wensleydale is the best known of this group . |
| 12 | Pecorino , Feta and Manchego are the best known of the remaining ewes ' milk cheeses . |
| 13 | Chèvre is the best known of all the goats ' milk cheeses , possibly because the name is actually a generic term for all goats ' milk cheese . |
| 14 | Danish Blue is one of the best known of the blue cheeses , but it is very sharp and unrefined . |
| 15 | The unlovely Fannie and her duopolistic cousin , the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ( Freddie Mac ) , are the best known of that obscure underbelly of the American political system known as government-sponsored enterprises . |
| 16 | The best known of the Power surveys is the Customer Satisfaction Index , which asks 30,000 drivers to rate the quality of their vehicles and the standard of service provided by dealers a year after their purchase . |
| 17 | Probably the best known of these is the drug atropine ( hyoscyamine ) which is one of the alkaloids found in Atropia belladonna ( deadly nightshade ) . |
| 18 | Blake and Mouton 's analysis is effectively complemented by the best known of the contingency models — Adair 's ( 1983 ) model of action-centred leadership . |
| 19 | Foreign aid has received a number of critical analyses , the best known of which is by Lappé et al. |
| 20 | The best known of this nationalist group , finished in 1914 but not put into use until after the war , is Eliel Saarinen 's Helsinki . |
| 21 | The best known of these was Jane Bloom 's Ch. |
| 22 | A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it . |
| 23 | Perhaps the best known of all recent antimalarial drugs is chloroquine . |
| 24 | The first ocean-going ship with a steam engine — Henry Bell 's Comet — was launched from Port Glasgow in 1812 , and the best known of the Clyde 's ships were always the ocean liners , though the yards built merchant ships , warships for the Royal Navy and many other types of vessel . |
| 25 | Heroin and cocaine These are the best known of the hard drugs . |
| 26 | At the outbreak of war , forty-five of these children were evacuated to the best known of all the agricultural training camps , Gwrych Castle in North Wales . |
| 27 | The best known of these is probably Yeldall Manor in Berkshire . |
| 28 | Although , today , justices of the peace are thought of primarily as being judicial bodies , they nevertheless retain certain administrative functions ( the best known of which is the issuing of liquor licences ) which , however , are a pale shadow of their former role . |
| 29 | The best known of these are zeolite , which takes up ammonia ; and charcoal , which will not remove any part of the nitrogen cycle chemicals but will purify the water of many of the unpleasant things that arrive unwanted through the tap including chlorine , and remove tinges of colour from the water . |
| 30 | Horacio Bento Gouveia 's writings include romantic novels set in Madeira and , although he died a few years ago now , he remains the best known of Madeiran writers . |