Example sentences of "best know for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The TV crews are today scheduled to move into the town more famous for fish than football , and begin the invasion of a club arguably best known for achieving the record Scottish Cup result , the 36-0 defeat of Bon Accord in 1885 . |
| 4 | Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election . |
| 5 | It was Thomas Paine who is said to have suggested United States of America as the name for the new country but he is perhaps best known for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania 1780 and for his important written works including ‘ The Rights of Man ’ . |
| 6 | Researcher Alison Inman says female viewers were incensed by the bimbo behaviour of scantily clad female assistants best known for screaming and cowering in terror . |
| 7 | But the bird that is best known for extracting insects from wood by means of a tool is the woodpecker finch of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 8 | The 64-year-old actor is probably best known for playing larger than life council labourer Selwyn Froggit on TV in the 1970s . |
| 9 | He was best known for rebuilding the Milagres Chapel in Machico . |
| 10 | Miss Hepburn , best known for starring roles in such 1960s ' classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's , recently toured refugee camps in famine-ravaged Somalia as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation 's children 's fund . |
| 11 | But Arudy has little to be said for it ; it is a small , mildly industrial town , best known for marking the spot where the glacier that once ground its way down the Ossau valley built a wall of debris , so causing the present-day Gave to make an abrupt swerve to westward . |
| 12 | The Swedish-born businessman and philanthropist is perhaps best known for having established in 1977 the annual Mitchell Prize for distinguished English-language books in art history . |
| 13 | May we have a debate on junk mail as soon as possible , to discuss a mailshot sent to many of my constituents by an organisation that is partly funded by Maxwell money which is so full of falsehoods that it would make the average time-share salesman blush ; which redefines the term ’ junk mail ’ and peddles dodgy , old-fashioned and out-of-date remedies which have been banned in most countries and which have passed their sell-by date ; and which bears the signature of an obscure Welsh politician , best known for losing his rag with Zimbabwean soldiers and for nutting people in public lavatories ? |
| 14 | 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 ) . |