Example sentences of "[was/were] best know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISAAC ASIMOV , who has died in New York aged 72 , was best known for his works of science fiction , a genre in which he reigned supreme , but he could also claim to have written more books about more subjects than any other author . |
| 2 | He was best known for rebuilding the Milagres Chapel in Machico . |
| 3 | Cardew was best known for his portrayal of the comic character Cardew the Cad , a tall overgrown schoolboy who wore short trousers , cap and scarf and recalled school pranks while on stage . |
| 4 | Sir Geraint was best known for his portrayal of Falstaff . |
| 5 | Huckerby , a worried-looking , balding man , had a responsible position which basically involved overseeing editorial expenditure and running the paper day to day , but was best known for fussing round the office collecting old coffee cups and switching off the lights last thing at night . |
| 6 | Outside Italy he was best known for La Maniera italiana ( 1962 ) and I Bamboccianti ( 1983 ) . |
| 7 | In the pre-Gockley era , the HGO never attained the glamour of its sister companies in Dallas and San Antonio ; it was best known for presenting young stars on the rise ( Plácido Domingo was a regular in the 1960s ) and legendary performers at the end of their careers ( Inge Borkh and Richard Tucker , among others ) , in very traditional productions of the core repertory ) . |
| 8 | The 1961 Programme , hailed by Khrushchev as a ‘ Communist Manifesto of the modern era ’ , was best known for its assumption that the achievement of a fully communist society had become an ‘ immediate practical task for the Soviet people ’ . |
| 9 | Peach was best known for his geological fieldwork in Scotland with John Horne [ q.v. ] , |
| 10 | Warner was best known for his work on optics and mathematics . |
| 11 | However , Davison was best known for his work as a writer on the history of British earthquakes and seismology in general . |
| 12 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 13 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 14 | Before today farmer Richard Cheshire was best known for his prize-winning sheep . |
| 15 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 16 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |