Example sentences of "best know for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chillida , from San Sebastian , Spain , is best know for his monumental works in natural materials , such as wood , iron and marble , but he also produces collages and engravings . |
| 2 | Once best known for her bewitching performances in films like Breakfast at Tiffany 's and Roman Holiday , today Audrey Hepburn is renowned for her work with children . |
| 3 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 4 | Leslie , best known for her starring role in the TV series C.A.T.S Eyes , was happy to put her career on hold and move with him . |
| 5 | The company was acquired last year by the regional brewer Riva , best known for its Dentergens wheat beer . |
| 6 | Boursin , best known for its Boursin soft cheese and Boursault brands , made a net profit of £3.4m in 1988 on sales of £30m . |
| 7 | It is best known for its mouth-watering digestive biscuits , but some staggering statistics graphically illustrate the incredible production rate at United Biscuits . |
| 8 | TODAY will see the opening shots in a fierce £130million battle for control of the Norfolk Capital hotels group , best known for its St James Club in London . |
| 9 | Included in the sale is James Burrough , best known for its Beefeater gin , which was bought by Whitbread little more than two years ago ; the Buckingham Wile Company , which distributes Beefeater , Cutty Sark Scotch , and Benedictine in the US ; and the Atlas Peak vinyards in California . |
| 10 | This week he adds yet another job to his blossoming portfolio with the chairmanship of Mishcon de Reya , the solicitor best known for its litigation and entertainment work . |
| 11 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 12 | CHINKS of light are at last starting to shine through the high street gloom , reports Courts , the furniture stores business best known for its irritating TV ads . |
| 13 | LIFE is a group best known for its anti-abortion stance , but its activities as a pressure group and charity extend into other areas . |
| 14 | Although the area is best known for its superb Ordovician basic pillow lavas , the rock sequence also spans a large part of the history of the Lower Palaeozoic Welsh Basin . |
| 15 | And then the Date Line is passed , and we are into a segment of the Pacific best known for its unrivalled prosperity and good fortune : here is the United States , sharing with Japan the suzerain 's role ; and , sandwiched between its two continental divisions , the Dominion of Canada . |
| 16 | WACC has long-standing connections with the Center , which is best known for its quarterly magazine Media&Values . |
| 17 | Originally a manufacturer of board-level products , Tadpole is now best known for its Sparcbook notebook which uses the Sun Microsystems Inc RISC . |
| 18 | The Center for Media and Values is best known for its quarterly magazine Media & Values , which has received support from WACC in past years . |
| 19 | To many people the Salvation Army is best known for its band and this certainly holds an important place in its life and worship . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Lanzarote , the eastern-most of the Canary Islands , is best known for its weird volcanic scenery and laval surface which barely supports a scrubby vegetation . |
| 22 | Birthright is a charity which funds research projects to improve the health of women and their babies , and is best known for its work on pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 23 | Canadian firm Corel Corporation , best known for its Corel Draw package , has reported a 145% increase in turnover to C$29M for its latest quarterly results to the end of August 1992 . |
| 24 | Sage , as a company , is probably best known for its accounting and financial software — there ca n't be many PC users in our readership that have n't heard of the Sterling and Sovereign range of programs — but still manages to produce a workmanlike networking product . |
| 25 | The Priory of Moissac ( further south still ) is likewise best known for its beautiful sculpture in figures and carved decoration , chiefly on the portal . |
| 26 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 27 | Didcot in Oxfordshire is a town best known for its power station , so it probably does n't figure in most people 's top ten tourist destinations . |
| 28 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 29 | Stoke Mandeville Hospital is best known for its spinal injuries unit , and the support of Jimmy Saville . |
| 30 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |