Example sentences of "[noun prp] was know for " in BNC.

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1 St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her .
2 Ambleside was known for its importance in the wool trade before the granting of the Market Charter in 1650 .
3 In his time Richard D'Oyly Carte was known for opulent and daring productions of all kinds .
4 Milner was known for his charm and the ease with which he made friends .
5 Before she died tragically in 1977 , Ree Morton was known for her elaborate decorative tableaux , often involving a kind of stiffened fabric called ‘ celastic ’ .
6 Despite her lauding of other Victorian virtues , Mrs Thatcher was known for her un-Victorian dislike of rail travel and was typical of those of her rising generation in placing a car high on her list of social desiderata and symbols of prosperity .
7 Tabs of Fuggles Fissenden was known for his strange custom of always leaving the Robin Hood public house backwards , this was because on a number of occasions having imbibed too freely , he fell forward on leaving , breaking his clay pipe , so for ever afterwards he removed himself backwards concerned not with his own safety but with that of his clay pipe .
8 Kendal was known for ermines , coatings , duffel , blankets and much more , including a prosperous stocking trade .
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