Example sentences of "[adv] know for its [noun] " 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 | WENSLEYDALE , better known for its cheese than its housing problems , is facing a serious shortage of houses which is forcing young people to move away from one of the most picturesque parts of the Yorkshire Dales , according to a survey published this week . |
| 3 | Edberg and Sweden did stage a solid comeback — their first from a 0–2 deficit in 46 years — but not before Nestor and the ABB Canadian Davis Cup team had captured the public 's imagination of a northern nation better known for its ice hockey , snow skiing and figure skating , than for its tennis exploits . |
| 4 | Half Moon Putney 93 Lower Richmond Rd , SW15 ( 788 2387 ) Better known for its jazz , but a good , wholesome venue for rock nonetheless . |
| 5 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The company considered a number of products , eventually opting for Commander FDC from Comshare , a company better known for its Commander EIS product . |
| 8 | Canadian firm Corel Corporation , best known for its Corel Draw package , has reported a 145% increase in turnover to C$29M for its latest quarterly results to the end of August 1992 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now , Harwell laboratory is best known for its contribution to nuclear research but the scientist there have revealed a secret life . |
| 11 | This week he adds yet another job to his blossoming portfolio with the chairmanship of Mishcon de Reya , the solicitor best known for its litigation and entertainment work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The company was acquired last year by the regional brewer Riva , best known for its Dentergens wheat beer . |
| 14 | The 1961 Programme , hailed by Khrushchev as a ‘ Communist Manifesto of the modern era ’ , was best known for its assumption that the achievement of a fully communist society had become an ‘ immediate practical task for the Soviet people ’ . |
| 15 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 16 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Originally a manufacturer of board-level products , Tadpole is now best known for its Sparcbook notebook which uses the Sun Microsystems Inc RISC . |
| 22 | Boursin , best known for its Boursin soft cheese and Boursault brands , made a net profit of £3.4m in 1988 on sales of £30m . |
| 23 | To many people the Salvation Army is best known for its band and this certainly holds an important place in its life and worship . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | TODAY will see the opening shots in a fierce £130million battle for control of the Norfolk Capital hotels group , best known for its St James Club in London . |
| 26 | Michael Heseltine has remarked that the BBC was ‘ not known for its independence ’ . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Crediton , 8 miles away , is an ancient town , once known for its wool industry now for its cider making . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One , reported in Flight International , was to find three senior aerospace engineers for Canadair , the leading Canadian aeronautical manufacturer , well known for its Challenger corporate jet , CL-215 water bomber and advanced military surveillance systems . |