Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] [adv] known for " in BNC.

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1 There are a number of printers with whom MAS has worked already ( some being clients ) who are well known for security printing .
2 The Democratic Unionist Party is in the curious position of being dominated by evangelicals and hence being more favourable to temperance and sabbatarianism than the Official Unionists and at the same time being better supported than the Officials by working-class loyalists who are not known for their piety and who are prepared to support acts of criminal violence .
3 This approach has been popular with teaching staff who are not known for being slow to complain about their administrative load .
4 Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built .
5 Far from being dead , Detroit is getting a bit too much for flamboyant city police chief Gil Hill , who 's better known for his movie-acting skills — he played the dour Detroit police chief in Beverly Hills Cop I and Il .
6 Dénise René , who is well known for her support of constructivist art during her forty years as a gallery owner in Paris , will be present however as winner of the Preis Art Cologne of DM20,000 ( see Around the Galleries , Cologne , p. 33 ) .
7 I figured a man like Truro Daine , who is well known for being up to his knees in dirt year in year out , would have a lot of use for their product , and decided to call on him to give a heavy pitch for the latest range of fine-bristled superswift specials .
8 Sue , who is well known for her contribution in Fuel Division , particularly in the field of Water Reactor and AGR fuel , and intermediate products such as UO2 powder and pellets , described her new post as a considerable challenge .
9 The latest of SAVE 's publications is Bright Future : The Re-Use of Industrial Buildings , written with the architect Francis Machin , who is best known for his futuristic conservatories , but whose conversions include the transformation of my own barn into a library and office .
10 In one almost comic instance , a man described as a ‘ wooden-legged ruffian ’ who was well known for drunk-and-disorderly offences had kicked a policeman with his wooden leg .
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