Example sentences of "best know [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 Best known was International Champion and Bundessieger and Worldsieger , Erno v Wellesweiler , an American champion .
2 The best known was Whittingham House , twenty miles from Edinburgh , described by an admiring nonresident as ‘ a little Jerusalem in Britain 's green and pleasant land ’ .
3 Among the representatives of the paramilitary organisations , the best known was Lieut.-Colonel E. H. Brush , CB , DSO , OBE , the commander of the Down Orange Welfare Volunteers .
4 Of Korean communists associated with Russia , the best known was Kim Il Sung but he had also been involved with the CCP .
5 Aranda and Olavide entertained ambitious schemes of state colonization , of which the best known was their partially successful attempt to settle German immigrants in a model colony of symmetrical plots along the brigand-infested road over the Sierra Morena .
6 There were several known cheesemakers in Cotherstone and the best known was a former Miss Chipchase , who married into the Birkett family at West park Farm , which is situated along the top road into Baldersdale .
7 Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain .
8 The best known was that which followed the Devonshire prophetess Joanna Southcott .
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