Example sentences of "best know [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horacio Bento Gouveia 's writings include romantic novels set in Madeira and , although he died a few years ago now , he remains the best known of Madeiran writers . |
| 2 | The island is best known of course , for its traditional Fair Isle knitting patterns . |
| 3 | One of the best known of Lindsay 's pieces of ‘ Higher Vaudeville ’ was ‘ The Congo ’ , which linked savage chants and jazz rhythms in a rather bathetically facile way that just misses being electrifying . |
| 4 | SIR , — Among the best known of Aesop 's fables is the story of the tortoise and the hare . |
| 5 | Just before La Barre , the road for Biarritz bends to the left and you can drive peaceably into that still glamorous resort , with the racecourse , the pine trees and beyond them the sands on one side , and more pine trees , the little Lac de Chiberta and the best known of Biarritz 's golf-courses on the other — the Basque Coast is very good for golf , with four courses all quite close to one another ; this is the English influence once again , creating links out of some auspicious dunes . |
| 6 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 7 | A rather less celebrated thespian , Miss Liz Lynne , 43 , best known for voice-overs and her work as Mr Ashdown 's voice trainer , follows Sir Cyril Smith into Parliament for Rochdale . |
| 8 | Six years ago he met his wife , English actress Victoria Tennant , best known for Winds of War with Robert Mitchum , when they co-starred in the film All Of Me . |
| 9 | The action , brought by Australia 's third largest bank , comes at the end of a year during which Mr Bond — best known for brewing Castlemaine XXXX lager and his 1985 triumph in the America 's Cup yacht challenge — has fought a desperate battle to keep his creditors at bay . |
| 10 | Outside Italy he was best known for La Maniera italiana ( 1962 ) and I Bamboccianti ( 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Best known for motor insurance , a field in which many — probably most — competitors are losing money , Direct Line has seen improved profits in each of the past four years . |
| 12 | Although best known for motor insurance , Direct Line writes two other classes of insurance : household and creditor . |
| 13 | Associate producer and star Denis Lawson — best known for Local Hero — said that filming of The Dead of Winter had been postponed and might even be switched from Mull to Denmark , even though the story is set on Mull . |
| 14 | FISONS , the ailing drugs group best known for asthma and hayfever products Intal and Opticrom , has sold its UK consumer health arm . |
| 15 | He said his company did not plan to raise its £790m hostile bid for RHM , effectively leaving the way clear for industrial conglomerate Tomkins , best known for Smith & Wesson guns . |
| 16 | The most recent is from a translation of Between Blue and Blue , a French novel by Raymond Queneau , best known for Zazie in the Metro , ‘ Well , Lamelie ’ , said Cidrolin , ‘ while you 're waiting to get married , do you want to be entertained or educated ? ’ ’ |
| 17 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 18 | Sucralose , developed over 20 years by T&L and its US partner Johnson & Johnson — the pharmaceuticals company best known for Band Aid and baby powder — is expected to be cleared for use by the US Food & Drug Administration this autumn . |
| 19 | His is a fury fanned by insensitive press coverage of homosexuality and the Aids epidemic ; the director best known for films like Caravaggio has leapt at the opportunity of reacting against ‘ licensed queer bashing ’ . |
| 20 | The Bernese Oberland is perhaps the Swiss region best known to English speaking tourists because of the dramatic massif of mountains , high valleys and ridges that lies south-east of Lakes Brienz and Thun , and between these the popular centre of tourist traffic , Interlaken . |
| 21 | CLIFF Burgess of Portchester is best known to Mid-Hants Railway members through his association with the Working Omnibus Museum Project which is creating a vintage bus collection in the former coal yard of Medstead and Four Marks Station . |
| 22 | Jenni Murray will be interviewing the excellent American actor Ed Asner ( above ) who , although best known to Brits as Lou Grant , has been involved in numerous political movements . |
| 23 | The best known to fishkeepers are the Cichlids — Mbuna , Egyptian Mouthbrooders , and others . |
| 24 | — It was Whatham who had the idea of casting Crawford , but the star best known to television audiences as a loveable idiot was not sure whether his presence would be beneficial to the plays . |
| 25 | Mr Wilczek was best known as minister of industry under Poland 's last Communist government . |
| 26 | The Portuguese mission had barely left when Ahmad Ibrahim , the Adal leader , best known as Ahmad Granj or " the left-handed " , invaded the country . |
| 27 | Jane Rossington , best known as Jill in Crossroads is appearing at the Redgrave Theatre , Farnham , from April 1st in Do n't Rock the Boat . |
| 28 | Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket . |
| 29 | These are best known as eye pigments and comprise two groups of substances , the sulphur.free ommatins of low molecular weight and , the sulphur-containing ommins of high molecular weight . |
| 30 | John Sillett who returned to manage Hereford United for one season only last year , and best known as Coventry City 's F A cupwinning manager — is Central 's new signing for the new season . |