Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] know for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will note that Mr. A. N. Other is a material holder in the company ; he is perhaps better known for his holding in Major Plc . |
| 2 | She is perhaps best known for her book South Riding which was based locally . |
| 3 | ‘ Dr Lambert is perhaps best known for his initiative in the First World War towards the production of respirators . |
| 4 | Perhaps best known for his feud with the Al-Fayed brothers over Harrods and the House of Fraser , Tiny Rowland built up his mining and trading company , Lonrho , in the '50s and '60s . |
| 5 | He 's perhaps best known for his love of livebearers — but the fishhouse holds a great many other species — some breeding projects , some pets , including a superb ‘ pair ’ of snakeheads , Derek 's new pride and joy . |
| 6 | Playwright John McKay , perhaps best known for his Channel 4 sitcom My Dead Dad , has written a neat , pacy story that combines humour and suspense with concise and colourful dialogue . |
| 7 | John Voight , the American film star , perhaps best known for his Oscar winning performance in Midnight Cowboy , is in Oxford for a couple of days . |
| 8 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 9 | And finally — Editor Steve Windsor is not widely known for his psychic powers , but it does seem some of his predictions come true . |
| 10 | While at this end of the neck the Grover adjustable machineheads are smooth , and although budget guitars are not exactly known for their tuning stability , this guitar is reassuringly accurate . |
| 11 | Geophysicists are perhaps not best known for their romantic souls , and when they invented the dire appellation subduction zone , they probably overlooked the fact that precisely because of all this subterranean frenzy , each one is an area of quite extraordinary beauty . |
| 12 | ‘ Not best known for their reliability , mind , travelling about the country , never being in one place for more than a few weeks , got to be careful there . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | VICE-CHANCELLORS are not normally known for their speed of action and this is how it should be : universities are reflective , discursive communities . |
| 15 | Christians today are not normally known for their candour about doubt or for their confident ability to resolve it . |
| 16 | He has been savaged throughout his visit to Rome by an unusual alliance of fundamentalist Protestants and Tory MPs not usually known for their theological knowledge or zeal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In 1963 , Lord Hodson , already well known for his judicial views on matrimonial matters , strongly opposed provisions in Mr Leo Abse 's Matrimonial Causes and Reconciliation Bill . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although his contribution to photography is grounded in his 60 years of documentary work , Doisneau is still best known for his shot of two young lovers kissing in front of the Hotel de Ville in Paris . |
| 21 | Designer John Byrne is probably better known for his stage plays and quirky graphics than for his stage sets , and his work generally has a sardonic and ironic quality eminently suited to Figaro . |
| 22 | Fleeces are probably best known for their ability to protect plants from quite severe frost . |
| 23 | Sage , as a company , is probably best known for its accounting and financial software — there ca n't be many PC users in our readership that have n't heard of the Sterling and Sovereign range of programs — but still manages to produce a workmanlike networking product . |
| 24 | Probably best known for his classic suits , his entire collection exudes a cool elegance . |
| 25 | RONALD EYRE , who has died aged 62 , was an accomplished stage , television and opera director , though he was probably best known for his investigation of religious themes . |
| 26 | S&S are also well known for their Anti-Virus Toolkit , the industry standard package for dealing with this new threat . |
| 27 | Professor Laurence Learner is an English scholar at the university , but he 's also well known for his verse , and it 's about his verse I want to talk to him today . |
| 28 | Originally a manufacturer of board-level products , Tadpole is now best known for its Sparcbook notebook which uses the Sun Microsystems Inc RISC . |
| 29 | Ellie , a silent watcher , and still hurting from all the accusations being hurled around upstairs , and who was n't exactly known for her commanding presence , took one look at Terry 's tear-stained face , and offered quietly , ‘ Will you let me have a look ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Your sister is n't best known for her tact ; she had just informed one of the other models that she was too fat to wear shorts . |