Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] famous " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with a good accountant , it could make the difference between you , the pop star , being rich and famous , or just famous . |
| 2 | Fascinating data could be found in yesterday 's reports of showbiz personalities , glitterati , sports stars , writers and miscellaneously famous people lining up and simpering in support of either Mr Kinnock or Mr Major at the weekend . |
| 3 | Since then , after a series of well-publicised operations , to the consternation of her fans among the fundamentalists , she has been a woman - Turkey 's first and most famous transsexual . |
| 4 | ISTANBUL — Turkey 's first , and most famous , transsexual has narrowly escaped the latest attempt to kill her , writes Tim Kelsey . |
| 5 | One of the earliest and most famous of more than one hundred and sixty thrillers and mysteries from the phenomenal and rather strange Mr Edgar Wallace , and certainly one of the most accomplished , readable and ingenious of them all . |
| 6 | Of their long list of successes the most recent and most famous was the arrest , conviction and execution of two thugs , Browne and Kennedy , who had heartlessly blasted to death an Essex police constable named Gutteridge . |
| 7 | Biographical data on Charles Babbage , computer pioneer , and most famous scientists can be obtained from our holdings of biographical reference works and individual biographies . |
| 8 | Leeds Amateurs return to the Grand Theatre in their 102nd year to present a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein 's first and most famous musical , OKLAHOMA , first performance in 1942 . |
| 9 | 'But I want you to know tonight , ’ said Martin Luther King in his final and most famous speech in Memphis in 1968 , ‘ that we , as a people will get to the promised land . ’ |
| 10 | IT IS one of the oldest and most famous hospitals in the world but if the Government follows the recommendations in the Tomlinson report , St Bartholomew 's in London will soon close . |
| 11 | One of the earliest and most famous discussions of this was the anthropologist Margaret Mead 's study Sex and Temperament . |
| 12 | Grand Prix 500cc road racing is the glamour class , the most prestigious and most famous of all forms of motor cycle sport . |
| 13 | Listed as one of the world 's finest hotels , and in a beautiful position overlooking the Chao Phya River , the Oriental is one of the oldest and most famous hotels in the East . |
| 14 | The earliest and most famous of these deified humans was Imhotep , the chief minister of King Djoser of the Third Dynasty ( about 2670 BC ) . |
| 15 | The biggest and most famous of all living marsupials , the wallabies and kangaroo , are of course leapers . |
| 16 | In this Lenten Appeal we would like to share with you some of our feelings about the rebuilding of our original — and most famous — house of hospitality . |
| 17 | Paris was the focal centre of the Île de France region , which produced the early and most famous examples which set the pattern for the whole of northern Europe . |
| 18 | Among its many literary connections , Bath can number such great figures as Henry Fielding , Fanny Burney , Jane Austen , William Wordsworth , Walter Scott , Charles Dickens — and most famous of all , perhaps , Geoffrey Chaucer and The Wife of Bath 's Tale . ’ |
| 19 | Many of Japan 's largest and most famous corporations , including Matsushita Electric , Hitachi and Nippon Steel , have reported major drops in profits while nearly a third of the country 's medium-sized companies are thought to be losing money . |
| 20 | The huge and justifiably famous Belshazzar 's Feast seen in all its various states from 1821 through 1824 and 1826 and beyond together with Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still ( 1826/7 ) , The Fall of Nineveh ( 1829/30 ) , and The Fall of Babylon ( 1831 ) are powerful enough to take the wind out of anybody 's sails . |
| 21 | It was this fundamentally sound structure which made the game readily accessible to everyone in those unions and led to the South African game being so strong , so great , and so famous . |
| 22 | Tribble , one of the original Mac architects at Apple Computer Inc responsible for its now famous user interface design and less famous operating system , is one of the few real experts around on object-oriented programming . |
| 23 | So for example if I was doing Saint Paul 's I 'd say right erm erm I 'm a building in the City of London , very old , very big and extremely famous on of the most obvious things that really stand out about me is my very large domed roof with a little cross on top of it . |
| 24 | ‘ Measure for Measure ’ was written when Shakespeare was about 40 , and already famous and prosperous . |
| 25 | In the early days , when we had some money to spare , we would contribute to the village festivals and later , when we fell on harder times , and they had become richer and more famous for their art amongst international collectors , they would support us . |
| 26 | To the north of Heilen is Loch St John 's , one of the best-known trout lochs in Scotland , famous for the size and quality of its trout ; and also famous for its ability to cure depression . |
| 27 | Then turn to the guides for information about atmosphere , pressure of work , facilities , and even famous alumni , of the possible places of study . |
| 28 | It led Churchill , twelve years later , when Baldwin had just died , to publish , in the first volume of his Second World War , one of the most polemical and therefore famous of all footnote references . |
| 29 | ‘ So she chose Gleneagles , in Scotland , which was very new then , but already famous for golf . |
| 30 | Textiles was one , but more famous was engineering . |