Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 2 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 3 | One who had arrived there as the convulsions started was Charlton Heston who achieved almost instant stardom and became especially known for his appearances in the biblical epics . |
| 4 | Unfortunately there have been presenters who became better known for hitting the headlines than their ability to turn washing up bottles into handy household objects . |
| 5 | The tsarist threat receded in 1867 , when Russia sold Alaska to the United States , and the doctrine subsequently became better known for its challenge to the perceived intention of the European Holy Alliance to help Spain reconquer its former colonies . |
| 6 | But , like the others , she 's been corralled here by one slightly harassed-looking comedienne rapidly becoming better known for her serious stance on food safety . |
| 7 | But he 'd never known for certain and still did n't know now . |
| 8 | In recent years , Hunt had become better known for his highly successful double-act with commentator Murray Walker for the BBC coverage of Grand Prix . |
| 9 | PAUL Newman is getting better known for his recipes than his acting . |
| 10 | It has , overall , captured less big-name , big-salary work than Russell Reynolds , but it has become well known for the efficient and speedy handling of a wide range of assignments within its pioneering structure of speciality divisions . |
| 11 | It has become well known for its close working relationships with industry , commerce and the public sector . |
| 12 | It has become well known for its close working relationships with industry , commerce and the public services . |
| 13 | Morley became well known for its music ( Sir Michael Tippett ) , its theatre and ballet ( Rupert Doone ) , and its art ( Eric Ravilious , q.v. , and Edward Bawden ) . |
| 14 | The latter had grown rapidly and become well known for its imaginative if sometimes desperate tactics . |
| 15 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 16 | What the precise purpose was of installing complex electronics in an old sailing vessel he did not know for sure , and Iain did not press him . |
| 17 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 18 | Ages recorded on death certificates ( and to a lesser extent on marriage certificates ) were not always accurate because the informant did not know for sure . |
| 19 | Left staring at him while waiting for her full wits to return , Leith did not know for the moment what on earth was going on . |
| 20 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 21 | And though we do not know for certain , it does seem doubtful that the only sins against EPA science are those that have been revealed . |
| 22 | The Trinidad crashed near Madrid , and to this day we still do not know for sure what happened . |
| 23 | But even if we discover that vineyards vanished from south east England at a time when the climate was getting colder , we still do not know for sure why they disappeared . |
| 24 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 25 | We do not know for certain what the total membership of any such set is , how many items belong to it , or the extent to which speakers vary in assigning items to the set . |
| 26 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 27 | A senior officer said : ‘ We have not exhausted all our enquiries yet and we do not know for certain if those ransom calls were the work of cranks . |
| 28 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 29 | O stared , he did n't know for how long , at him and his outstretched hand , wondering whether to gasp it , fill it with change , or knock it away ; and then he looked up , because he heard his train coming and also because he felt the hot wind on his face . |
| 30 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |