Example sentences of "best know for his " 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 | Best known for his portrayal of Major Upshot-Bagley in the television series The Army Game . |
| 3 | Next week sees the release of Melancholia , a directorial debut by Andi Engel , who has until now been best known for his work as a film distributor . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
| 5 | The latest of SAVE 's publications is Bright Future : The Re-Use of Industrial Buildings , written with the architect Francis Machin , who is best known for his futuristic conservatories , but whose conversions include the transformation of my own barn into a library and office . |
| 6 | Probably best known for his classic suits , his entire collection exudes a cool elegance . |
| 7 | Mr Chandler is best known for his book ‘ The Visible Hand ’ , published in 1977 , which chronicled the rise of managerial capitalism in America and won him a Pulitzer prize . |
| 8 | To most people , Turing is best known for his work on the theory of computing machines , but in time his work on the theory of morphogenesis may be seen as equally important . |
| 9 | Best known for his column , in which he was an early champion of green politics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | RONALD EYRE , who has died aged 62 , was an accomplished stage , television and opera director , though he was probably best known for his investigation of religious themes . |
| 12 | Although his contribution to photography is grounded in his 60 years of documentary work , Doisneau is still best known for his shot of two young lovers kissing in front of the Hotel de Ville in Paris . |
| 13 | Kramolín was a pupil of Andrea del Pozzo , best known for his work in Il Gesù in Rome and his speciality of sotto in sù painting . |
| 14 | ‘ Dr Lambert is perhaps best known for his initiative in the First World War towards the production of respirators . |
| 15 | Dutch painter , best known for his genre scenes ; his early paintings depict lively scenes of peasants carousing in crowded taverns and barns . |
| 16 | MR CHRISTIAN SLATER is a 22-year old Hollywood thespian best known for his performances in Heathers , Young Guns II and Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves . |
| 17 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 18 | Among fellow Americans , Joel Scholz is another outstanding artist/designer best known for his long train of delicately coloured birds , and his flying ‘ Geisha Girl ’ . |
| 19 | The former Maesteg coach is best known for his work at what was once known as Cardiff College of Education whose former student include Lyn ‘ the Leap ’ Davies , Gareth Edwards and John Bevan and more recently , John Devereux and Tony Copsey . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Welsh-born Sir Anthony , best known for his Oscar-winning role as cannibal Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs added : ‘ I am quite low-key . |
| 22 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 23 | Sir Geraint was best known for his portrayal of Falstaff . |
| 24 | Westerberg 's solo debut is to be produced by Matt Wallace , best known for his work with Faith No More and The Replacements . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They have tended to conclude that the most effective method of increasing the risks is by increasing the certainty of detection rather than by increasing the severity of the penalty ( but not always ; Ehrlich , 1975 , is best known for his advocacy of stiffer penalties , especially the use of capital punishment ) . |
| 27 | Lyotard , for example , is best known for his scepticism towards historicist universal narratives , advocating instead the possibility of a multiplicity of heterogeneous , conflicting and incommensurable histories . |
| 28 | Lautner is best known for his pioneering of biomorphic styles , either in roadside , fast-food structures or on hillsides in the western United States . |
| 29 | The show , in the Gemeentemuseum , The Hague ( 1 February -30 June 1994 ) , will consist of fifty paintings and 150 drawings by this austere theoretician of the Modern movement , best known for his canvases painted with horizontal and vertical lines in primary colours . |
| 30 | At Louis Carré & Cie curves of white-painted knotted gauze reveal another side to the artist Christian Jaccard , best known for his mainly oval ‘ ignigraphs ’ . |