Example sentences of "best know [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magdalen Tower is probably the best known symbol of Oxford . |
| 2 | A Comedie Franaise actor , he joined the Underground and found his way to London and the B.B.C. to become one of the best known announcers on Les Franais Parient aux Franais , banned by the Nazis but heard throughout France . |
| 3 | For those who do n't know it , the Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt in the Alps and is one of the best known routes in Europe . |
| 4 | The form of mental handicap known as ‘ Down 's Syndrome ’ is undoubtedly the best known type of handicap in Britain today . |
| 5 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 6 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 7 | This is the best known part of Lochaber and indeed probably the best known part of the Highlands , familiar to most visitors to Scotland , featured in ballads and too often in newspaper headlines , a Mecca for adventurers and everywhere displaying spectacular scenery on a grand scale . |
| 8 | Peter Joseph Lenne was only one of the landscape planners and artists who left their mark in this biggest and best known park of Berlin . |
| 9 | This phenomenon crossed the Atlantic and reappeared in William Wilson , one of the best known stories of Edgar Allan Poe . |
| 10 | Lenny McLean was the best known bouncer in London . |
| 11 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 12 | It is also an ideal introduction to the scenery of the region , from tufa mounds and hot pools to the Virginia Falls , possibly the second best known falls in Canada , around which is a 2km portage trail , partly on wooden planks . |
| 13 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 14 | Zinc , one of the best known protections against corrosion |
| 15 | Trading in the shares of a target company on the basis of inside information is perhaps the best known form of insider dealing . |
| 16 | Apart from the Pazyryk carpet ( in the Hermitage , Leningrad ) , probably the most important , and certainly the best known specimen in existence is the Ardebil carpet , which is now housed in London 's Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 17 | The architecture in the background shows some of the best known buildings in Frome . |
| 18 | The best known aspect of sexism in English is what some feminists have called ‘ he/man ’ language , that is , the generic use of masculine pronouns and the term man ( kind ) . |
| 19 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |