Example sentences of "[is] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His name may not be familiar , but he 's known for playing cruel , heartless men . |
| 2 | One of the country 's leading experts on the secret services says the evidence confirms what he 's known for some time . |
| 3 | ‘ Nicholson 's is known for its high standards . |
| 4 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 5 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 6 | Ben Elton , 32 , star of the BBC series The Man from Auntie , is known for his angry humour . |
| 7 | South Korea is known for its ship building . |
| 8 | Khan Abdul Wali Khan , the most prominent Pashtun political leader , is known for his close ties with the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan . |
| 9 | Berge is known for his fierce defence of Saint Laurent . |
| 10 | He is believed to be honest and is known for his involvement in the army-backed project for ‘ Green Esarn ’ . |
| 11 | He is known for his dull , green eucalyptus and bushland colour creations and finely structured suits . |
| 12 | The Socialist French Prime Minister , Edith Cresson , whose government is supported in office by one of the few unreformed Communist parties in Europe , is known for her comments about ‘ little yellow men ’ from Japan . |
| 13 | At the mouth of the Patuxent River on the bay 's western shore , there is a dollop of land called Solomons that is known for its commercial fishing community — the bay 's watermen ’ . |
| 14 | Some other marines are reputed to be mouthbrooders , including Grammas and Jawfish , although little is known for certain about the breeding of many marine fish . |
| 15 | Mike Rutherford is known for dropping his top E string to D for a lot of his playing . |
| 16 | The government is trying to improve fruit and vegetable production , and recently the kiwi fruit , which is known for its prolific yield and good export price , has been introduced . |
| 17 | Stern , who is known for his sometimes brash self-promotion , anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980s , in which he attempted in a Bronowski-like way to explain the ascent of architecture in America . |
| 18 | ‘ I DID N'T think that Chester would have a homeless problem ’ , is a comment we hear quite often , says Father Tim Dowling , Father Guardian of St Francis 's Church and Honorary Secretary of Chester Aid to the Homeless , CATH , as it is known for short , is a registered charity , which this year notches up 20 years of working with homeless people . |
| 19 | And he is known for his after-match tantrums , which include an incident when he kicked down an advertising board . |
| 20 | Chuck Berry and Dustin Hoffman were feathers in our cap , and so was Harrison Ford , who is known for being ‘ a very private person ’ as they say in Los Angeles . |
| 21 | The climate is particularly favourable and the area is known for its cider-making and vineyards . |
| 22 | Easily Accessible : The island is known for its largely unspoilt countryside which ranges from chalk downlands to green fields and from sandy beaches to ancient forest . |
| 23 | At Connaught Brown there are fourteen new abstract paintings by William MacIlraith ( 24 March-20 April ) who is known for the picture surfaces which he achieves with a special wax and pigment technique . |
| 24 | Alan Wofsy Fine Arts in San Francisco is known for such reprints and is offering an impressive range in 1993 . |
| 25 | This is a period about which little is known for few records survive of those days . |
| 26 | All that is known for certain is that Sigmar eventually put aside his crown and journeyed eastwards , supposedly to Karaz a Karak to meet his old friend Kurgan Ironbeard . |
| 27 | Little is known for certain about his early upbringing or education although we do know that John Howard was criticized for both neglecting him ( because of his many absences ) and for imposing an unduly repressive regime when he was at home . |
| 28 | Ready Systems is known for its VRTX operating system for real-time embedded applications . |
| 29 | Kyffin Williams is known for his strongly held views on the current state of much art . |
| 30 | Rice is known for his collaboration on the structure of some of the most important buildings world-wide , including the Centre Pompidou , Paris , the Sydney Opera House , the new Lloyd 's building , London , and the Menil Museum , Houston . |