Example sentences of "know for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You know for people on low incomes , how can they cope with |
| 32 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 33 | Such autoregulatory pathways are known for Drosophila segmentation genes . |
| 34 | The Shaw neighbourhood is known for drug-trafficking and prostitution . |
| 35 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 36 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 37 | This is well known for metabisulphites and sulphur dioxide ( see p 291 ) . |
| 38 | The federal government on Sept. 9 dismissed Peter Uhl , director-general of the Czechoslovak press agency CSTK and known for leftist views ; his replacement , Tomas Kopriva , was a deputy in Klaus 's Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) . |
| 39 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 40 | Both of them were already known for silences . |
| 41 | A rather less celebrated thespian , Miss Liz Lynne , 43 , best known for voice-overs and her work as Mr Ashdown 's voice trainer , follows Sir Cyril Smith into Parliament for Rochdale . |
| 42 | Klein ( 1975a ) has described fossilized carnivore burrows from South Africa , and fossilized rodent burrows are known for hamsters ( Szafer , 1957 ) and pocket mice ( Voorhies , 1974 ) , but in general such discoveries are rare . |
| 43 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 44 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 45 | Straight humeral shaft and convex deltoid plane : not known for Graecopithecus but present in Dryopithecus . |
| 46 | Six years ago he met his wife , English actress Victoria Tennant , best known for Winds of War with Robert Mitchum , when they co-starred in the film All Of Me . |
| 47 | Outside Italy he was best known for La Maniera italiana ( 1962 ) and I Bamboccianti ( 1983 ) . |
| 48 | The action , brought by Australia 's third largest bank , comes at the end of a year during which Mr Bond — best known for brewing Castlemaine XXXX lager and his 1985 triumph in the America 's Cup yacht challenge — has fought a desperate battle to keep his creditors at bay . |
| 49 | ‘ I 've known for ages there was something going on . |
| 50 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 51 | This is well known for predators ( especially birds ) which form a searching image ; see , for example , Cooper ( 1984 ) . |
| 52 | He was America 's most prominent conductor and known for compositions from symphonies to musicals ; his most famous was West Side Story . |
| 53 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 54 | Geologists have known for decades about ‘ natural fission reactors ’ in very ancient rocks at Oklo in Gabon , West Africa . |
| 55 | This is well known for oxygen , and can be due to a specific cellular orientation , and a spatial orientation of connective tissue of glycoproteins , collagen and other biopolymers . |
| 56 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 57 | It has been known for developers to move in virtually overnight to demolish a building once they find out attempts are being made to list it . |
| 58 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 59 | They 'd known for weeks and stayed by me , anxious when I was out of sight , whining in the daytime when they never used to . |
| 60 | They must have known for weeks . |