Example sentences of "[verb] know for " in BNC.
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| 31 | One year after Brooklands opened , A V Roe , one of Britain 's aviation pioneers arrived on site , other aviators followed , flying schools were set up and Brooklands soon became known for the ‘ art of aviating ’ . |
| 32 | Because the market women became known for their opposition to the regime , the larger markets were heavily infiltrated by members of the security forces . |
| 33 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 34 | Pan Am , the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991 , was founded in 1927 and became known for expanding air routes to south America and pioneering US air travel to the Far East . |
| 35 | Founded in 1929 by Hinrich Medau , the Medau-Schule soon became known for its own particular form of movement . |
| 36 | Wanting Rudd to apply his mind to motor racing again , Chapman gave him his famous 27-page handwritten list of ‘ things he needed to know for F1 ’ . |
| 37 | No one seems to know for sure . |
| 38 | The content of education must therefore be that which men would wish to know for its own sake . |
| 39 | There are some things which no one would wish to know for their own sake , some subjects which have no possibility of being endowed with general significance . |
| 40 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 41 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 42 | They must have known for weeks . |
| 43 | ‘ I doubt whether you could understand how it feels to know for all eternity that the creations of hell are pursuing you , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 44 | Had not wanted to know for good and certain . |
| 45 | ‘ There 's a real danger in the field of design these days that you become known for a specific style , like a particular type of chair , for instance , and that is all that people will ever want you to do . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ The calibre of Highways ’ staff is high and the Department has quite rightly become known for its imaginative initiatives including CLARENCE and the many road and traffic improvement schemes throughout the Region ’ said Graham Bowie . |
| 47 | ‘ I do n't think you will , ’ said the Brownie Guider , ‘ but I do know for certain that you faced what to you was great danger with wonderful bravery . ’ |
| 48 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |
| 49 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 50 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 51 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 52 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 53 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 54 | People I 've known for years . |
| 55 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 56 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 57 | On this first video , Mr Colbeck guides you gently through the workings of an array of popular home studio gear ( including the Fostex X28 four-track cassette recorder and the Alesis Quadraverb ) with the friendly manner of a family doctor you 've known for years . |
| 58 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 59 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 60 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |