Example sentences of "be best know [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are best known for their pantomimes and comedy and felt the need for a change . |
| 2 | These are called " optimising models " and are best known from their application to queuing , scheduling and routing problems . |
| 3 | The following definitions are best known from his Dictionnaire de musique ( 1768 ) , but date essentially from the early 1750s . |
| 4 | Next week sees the release of Melancholia , a directorial debut by Andi Engel , who has until now been best known for his work as a film distributor . |
| 5 | There was also a bespectacled Cambridge undergraduate , aged twenty-two called Bamber Gascoigne — later to be best known for his TV quiz show success University Challenge . |
| 6 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 7 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 8 | Chillida , from San Sebastian , Spain , is best know for his monumental works in natural materials , such as wood , iron and marble , but he also produces collages and engravings . |
| 9 | Goldin is best known for her 1986 book , The Ballad of Sexual Dependency , an account of her intimates in the seamy Seventies nightlife of New York and Provincetown . |
| 10 | She is best known for her rings with tall bezels towering above slender hoops . |
| 11 | She is best known for her probable authorship of the anonymous pamphlet An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex ( 1696 ) , frequently ascribed to Mary Astell [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | The Belgian-born Hepburn is best known for her roles in such classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's . |
| 13 | It is best known for its mouth-watering digestive biscuits , but some staggering statistics graphically illustrate the incredible production rate at United Biscuits . |
| 14 | Although the area is best known for its superb Ordovician basic pillow lavas , the rock sequence also spans a large part of the history of the Lower Palaeozoic Welsh Basin . |
| 15 | WACC has long-standing connections with the Center , which is best known for its quarterly magazine Media&Values . |
| 16 | The Center for Media and Values is best known for its quarterly magazine Media & Values , which has received support from WACC in past years . |
| 17 | To many people the Salvation Army is best known for its band and this certainly holds an important place in its life and worship . |
| 18 | Lanzarote , the eastern-most of the Canary Islands , is best known for its weird volcanic scenery and laval surface which barely supports a scrubby vegetation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Stoke Mandeville Hospital is best known for its spinal injuries unit , and the support of Jimmy Saville . |
| 21 | Now , Harwell laboratory is best known for its contribution to nuclear research but the scientist there have revealed a secret life . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Chandler is best known for his book ‘ The Visible Hand ’ , published in 1977 , which chronicled the rise of managerial capitalism in America and won him a Pulitzer prize . |
| 24 | To most people , Turing is best known for his work on the theory of computing machines , but in time his work on the theory of morphogenesis may be seen as equally important . |
| 25 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 26 | The former Maesteg coach is best known for his work at what was once known as Cardiff College of Education whose former student include Lyn ‘ the Leap ’ Davies , Gareth Edwards and John Bevan and more recently , John Devereux and Tony Copsey . |
| 27 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 28 | He is best known for his series of paintings , begun in 1946 , which celebrated the life of the outlaw Ned Kelly , who appears with a huge square helmet on his head in the burning wastes of the outback ; ‘ Rousseau and sunlight ’ was how Nolan characterised his own intentionally naive style . |
| 29 | They have tended to conclude that the most effective method of increasing the risks is by increasing the certainty of detection rather than by increasing the severity of the penalty ( but not always ; Ehrlich , 1975 , is best known for his advocacy of stiffer penalties , especially the use of capital punishment ) . |
| 30 | Lyotard , for example , is best known for his scepticism towards historicist universal narratives , advocating instead the possibility of a multiplicity of heterogeneous , conflicting and incommensurable histories . |