Example sentences of "[noun] know for " in BNC.

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1 Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's achievements in the four years since they had joined forces were — even in an industry known for its hyperbole — sensational .
2 The opera is newly translated by Jeremy Sams whose recent translation of L'Etoile had audiences rocking with laughter , and designed by Sue Blane known for her outrageous costumes in the wacky cult opera The Love For Three Oranges .
3 This is that area of physical life which is associated with sickness and health ; an area wherein the interplay between the subconscious healing operations of the bodily functions , on the one hand , and the power of the human mind or will to help those functions on the other , would offer immense possibilities for medical practice if the practitioner knew for sure that in the mind of the patient there was the certain knowledge that successful self-help generated from faith in a fully believed-in ‘ god ’ could be achieved .
4 He is unsure of the ‘ philosophical ’ position that Novell will take and figures it could be a year before the industry knows for sure .
5 I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something .
6 For Swan , the jockey with the choir boy looks , has become the punter 's friend in Irish racing , the rider the small man loves to follow with a confidence which is rare in a sport known for its uncertainties .
7 Incubation time and concentration of cytokines were chosen according to optimal responses known for the ICAM-1 upregulation on other tumour cell lines .
8 The forbidding-looking castle , Claughton Hall , belonged to Owen Oyston , a flamboyant fifty-one-year-old self-made multi-millionaire known for his good local Labour Party connections .
9 In a Mercedes , a marque known for providing an almost absurd amount of legroom for its drivers , this is a bad fault .
10 Over the past two decades a possible increase in the incidence of anal cancer has been noted , especially in American communities known for their high representation of homosexual men .
11 Was this what Lucenzo knew for a fact , or was he trying to put her off — on the instructions of his client ?
12 Is it the right of individuals to know for what they are responsible and for whom and to whom they are accountable ?
13 In a business known for its egos , Beatty has somehow persuaded major starts to show up almost incognito .
14 For example , the presence of sticklebacks ( fish known for their tolerance of dirty water ) in a previously fishless stream is taken as an unambiguous sign of an improvement in water quality .
15 AGRICULTURE ministry and Milk Marketing Board officials knew for weeks that milk contaminated with lead was on sale , Whitehall sources indicated yesterday .
16 Health Virgo is a sign known for its interest in health and dietary matters .
17 Velocities up to are well out of the range of the rotation velocity ( 250kms -1 ) of the galaxy NGC4258 7 and are much higher than any velocities known for molecular gas in our Galaxy or other galaxies ( for example for H 2 O maser in for CO in the galaxy for OH in the galaxy NGC253 13 ) .
18 The father is known only to myself and the computer , and none of the young men who cooperated in giving us specimens of their sperm knew for what purpose it was given .
19 Well I think the er right honourable gentleman knows for both I and my right honourable friend the chancellor have made the position quite clear , that the extra value added tax is a vital part of our policies to get public borrowing down but that we will be offering help to people who are vulnerable .
20 ANTONY di Gesu , a photographer known for his portraits of celebrated people from Truman Capote to Irving Berlin , has died at La Jolla , California , aged 79 .
21 Such dedication manifested itself not only among professional religious like the Dominican nuns in the Rhineland known for their mystical experience , or Franciscan tertiaries like Angela of Foligno , who was converted after her marriage and , once a widow , devoted her life to God , but among lay women in the Low Countries and Germany known as Beguines .
22 Annina Nosei is not a galerist known for specialising in photography but she has arranged , this summer , a largish show of those whose work especially interests her .
23 Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug .
24 How could Jaq know for sure ?
25 Our one chance of sorting this out is to get to her before the Provos know for sure she 's in Ireland .
26 A change of greenbelt status , and changes to a proposed greenbelt boundary variously affecting the combined area known for the purposes of this enquiry as D thirty nine and D forty , north of Skelton Village , have been proposed in the deposit copies , and in the desire to change proposed by the county and local planning authorities , and sundry valid representations have been lodged relating to the exclusion of all or parts of the area of the greenbelt .
27 The explosion destroyed a bar in an area known for its strong support for the Sacred Union .
28 Alexander , God knows for what reason , always spurned them ; now he is gone , Philip can weave fresh webs , gain an ally with a knife at England 's back .
29 God knows for what reason — he did n't lack courage .
30 Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms .
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