Example sentences of "he is [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanbrugh was appointed as designer but at that time he is not known to have had any architectural experience ; his career had until then been a military one . |
| 2 | He is not known to have a wide circle of friends , in fact people tend to steer clear of him . |
| 3 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 4 | He is probably known as Champagne Tom in the office , always breaking open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate handing over a fortune to another punter . |
| 5 | Life without ‘ Geech ’ , as he is affectionately known , is incomprehensible to many of a squad who have risen to world prominence as a direct result of his guidance . |
| 6 | Jed 's puzzling ploy of playing wing-forward Kevin Liddle in the three-quarters was vindicated as ‘ Lids ’ , as he is affectionately known at Riverside Park , contributed greatly to an entertaining and enthralling 80 minutes of open rugby from both sides . |
| 7 | He is well known for his theoretical considerations of the ‘ habitus ’ and ‘ cultural capital ’ . |
| 8 | He is well known for his interest in teaching and learning in higher education , especially through the possibilities offered by what used to be known as ‘ new ’ technologies . |
| 9 | Of course , he is well known to everyone in the House and to many people outside . |
| 10 | He is well known as the man who revamped Labour 's image with the Red Rose campaign in the 1987 General Election . |
| 11 | Brian Sommerville , defending , said : ‘ He is well known in the area for this sort of thing because of the last occasion . |
| 12 | Cardinal Hume has not only the cross of being a fervent Newcastle United supporter to bear ; he is also known to irreverent members of Mayfair 's Jesuit Farm Street Church by his initials , George Basil Hume . |
| 13 | He is also known as an amateur painter . |
| 14 | Ira ( as he is universally known in Washington ) inspires limitless loyalty among his subordinates . |
| 15 | In Britain he is best known for the remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 16 | On the eve of his sentencing , Mr Nathan spoke to The Independent in the Tel Aviv office of the institution for which he is best known , his popular offshore radio station . |
| 17 | He is best known now for his Objections ( 1644 ) to Descartes 's Meditations , which are remarkable for the vituperative annoyance which runs through them . |
| 18 | Mr Furbank is well-suited to the task , for he is best known as the biographer of E. M. Forster , and there was some similarity between the luminaries of Bloomsbury and the philosophes of the Enlightenment Salons . |
| 19 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 20 | There , between 1647 and 1655 Taylor wrote the books for which he is best known and kept the flame of his proscribed Church alive under the rule of parliament and Cromwell . |
| 21 | He is best known for his series of paintings , begun in 1946 , which celebrated the life of the outlaw Ned Kelly , who appears with a huge square helmet on his head in the burning wastes of the outback ; ‘ Rousseau and sunlight ’ was how Nolan characterised his own intentionally naive style . |
| 22 | Mark di Suvero , over the years , has often worked in bronze — but it is his steelworks for which he is best known . |
| 23 | His field work has been in the Cycladic and Orkney Islands , and he is best known to the public through appearances on BBC TV 's ‘ Chronicle ’ programme , and for his book Before civilisation ( 1973 ) , which transformed prehistoric chronology by applying the results of Carbon 14 dating . |
| 24 | He is best known today for his early friendships with the Impressionist elite of Renoir , Fantin-Latour , Manet , Cézanne and Monet ( with whom he shared a studio for a time and discussed the possibility of organising an exhibition of their friends ' works by the official salon ) . |
| 25 | He is best known for his epic poem Osman , which , although running to 11,000 lines , was unfinished at his death . |
| 26 | Although he is little known in Britain , Mr Ryder appears to be developing into an influential international figure in the regulation of nuclear safety . |
| 27 | He is little known as a teacher , or as a local preacher , but in fact his first choice of occupation upon leaving school , in Holland , was — to use his own words — ‘ School-mastering and the Church ’ , which occupations he thought were the only professions worthy of consideration . |
| 28 | Mr Barre 's writ is so limited that he is disparagingly known as the mayor of Mogadishu . |
| 29 | This ‘ methodical teacher ’ was blessed with two musically gifted children — Maria Anna , named after her mother but known as ‘ Nannerl ’ ( born 30/31 July 1751 ) — and Wolfgang Amadeus , as he is now known , ( born 27 January 1756 ) . |
| 30 | Erm Colonel has supported very actively the current Three-Ninetieth Missile Wing like he supported us and he is respectfully known to them as Uncle Joe . |