Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is also known for being frugal and will often only serve visiting supporters after running a used teabag three or four times through a mangle . |
| 2 | She is well known in this area . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 4 | She is best known for her rings with tall bezels towering above slender hoops . |
| 5 | She is best known for her probable authorship of the anonymous pamphlet An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex ( 1696 ) , frequently ascribed to Mary Astell [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Kanga , as she is better known , was an ex-girlfriend and has remained a trusted friend . |
| 7 | She is better known to us of course as Diana Clunt . ’ |
| 8 | Among those present either lunching , or braving the elements to watch the match , or both , were the new Argentine Ambassador Señor Mario Campora , , she is better known as TV sports presenter Sally Jones ; Mr and Mrs Brian Jenks , whom I had enjoyed meeting at Royal Ascot earlier in the week ; , Mr Brian Morrison , he owns the Royal Berkshire Polo ground ; Major Ronald Ferguson , who runs the polo here very efficiently ; . |
| 9 | She is now known as the more successful sister of Margaret Drabble . |
| 10 | It is otherwise known as delegated legislation . |
| 11 | ‘ It is otherwise known as the Feast of St Peter and St Paul . ’ |
| 12 | Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS . |
| 13 | Sasse , as it is generally known , is the oldest secondary school in the Cameroon Republic by a good ten years . |
| 14 | ‘ Once it is generally known , ’ said Roland , ‘ that these letters exist , everyone will be at your door . |
| 15 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 16 | It is generally known , of course , that standard English enshrines sporadic residues of approximations between these vowels , for example in doublets of the type strop/strap , catch/ketch , but there has been a good deal of dispute about EModE evidence for overlap and merger in this part of the vowel-system . |
| 17 | " Many property groups have recently been in difficulties , and it is generally known in the City that the Ingard group has not been doing well . |
| 18 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 19 | It is best known for its mouth-watering digestive biscuits , but some staggering statistics graphically illustrate the incredible production rate at United Biscuits . |
| 20 | It is best known for persecuting Indian peasants , especially the lower castes or ‘ Untouchables ’ , who may have stolen from a neighbour or have demonstrated dirty habits . |
| 21 | Its hillside position is exceptional and its views of the surrounding countryside entrancing , but it is best known among Italians as the place gentle Saint Francis is said to have tamed a mean , ferocious wolf which had been terrorising locals . |
| 22 | It is best known from the presbytery garden at Chatillon-en-Diois in the French Alps , but has also been found in a single block in Poland , as a single specimen in Czechoslovakia , at a single locality in California and at not more than two or three other places in the world . |
| 23 | The town also boasts , in its main street , a remarkable seventeenth-century mansion , the Freuler Mansion or Palace as it is locally known , built for a local man who acquired riches in the service of the French crown as a colonel of mercenaries ( a not uncommon employment for the Swiss in those days ) . |
| 24 | Classes at the ‘ City Lit ’ , as it is affectionately known , are handled by a highly competent team of tutors , many of whom teach at the drama schools too . |
| 25 | Officially named The Making Of Me , it is affectionately known as ‘ Shorty The Sperm Meets Ovette The Egg . ’ |
| 26 | Only one horse , Mandarin , has won both the Gold Cup and the ‘ Grand Steep ’ as it is affectionately known . |
| 27 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 28 | It is emphasising these offerings rather than the connectivity software products for which it is traditionally known — what it now calls a secondary stream . |
| 29 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 30 | It is widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions . |