Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALANNAH MYLES : ‘ A Song Instead Of A Kiss ’ AOR , Grammy-winner best known for her ‘ Black Velvet ’ hit , issues a taster from her forthcoming second LP |
| 2 | He asked a lawyer well known for his work in medical affairs to protect his freedom but the lawyer refused to take on mental-health cases . |
| 3 | After due consideration , the Committee thought this remark ‘ was not out of context in a programme well known for its fictional exposure of the more dubious side of the antiques trade . ’ |
| 4 | The NME succumbed to The Smiths success by parading a lengthy Smiths interview by Biba Kopf , a writer not known for his enthusiasm for the Smiths . |
| 5 | Tough it may be , but Washington is one who defied the odds to achieve world status in a sport not known for its liberal representation of blacks . |
| 6 | The idea was originated by Guinness and produced by a team of technical experts led by Anthony Daniels , an actor best known for his role as the golden robot C3PO in the Star Wars series of films . |
| 7 | In the revival he 's acting alongside a previous Charley 's Aunt Patrick Cargill , the veteran actor best known for the ITV comedy series Father Dear Father . |
| 8 | FISONS , the ailing drugs group best known for asthma and hayfever products Intal and Opticrom , has sold its UK consumer health arm . |
| 9 | LIFE is a group best known for its anti-abortion stance , but its activities as a pressure group and charity extend into other areas . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Soon Richard Darman , the budget director not known for his light touch , will resume his attack . |
| 16 | scholastic author well known for his ‘ Catechisms ’ on a variety of subjects . |
| 17 | Information Resources , another organisation better known for its EIS-type products , has similarly developed FCRS , another system devoted to consolidation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Not only are the men and women involved people of remarkable courage and strength , but unlike Imperial Typewriters or Spiralynx it is a strike of black workers in an area well known for its tradition of left wing trade union organisation . |
| 21 | Hamnett 's defection comes at a time of high anxiety in the British fashion industry — but then she 's a woman well known for choosing her moments . |
| 22 | Three million unemployed , homelessness and poverty on a scale not known for a generation . |
| 23 | The system outlined by Lord Donaldson , a man not known for his left tendencies , bears marked similarities to those operated in a number of eastern bloc countries . |
| 24 | Edberg and Sweden did stage a solid comeback — their first from a 0–2 deficit in 46 years — but not before Nestor and the ABB Canadian Davis Cup team had captured the public 's imagination of a northern nation better known for its ice hockey , snow skiing and figure skating , than for its tennis exploits . |
| 25 | Bath is a beautiful city well known for its spa , its Roman baths and the excellence of its Georgian architecture , an example of which is the supremely elegant Crescent . |
| 26 | The company considered a number of products , eventually opting for Commander FDC from Comshare , a company better known for its Commander EIS product . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 30 | 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 . |