Example sentences of "[is] [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pople is widely known for his contributions to bonding theory and the development of computer programs in quantum mechanics . |
| 2 | Far from being dead , Detroit is getting a bit too much for flamboyant city police chief Gil Hill , who 's better known for his movie-acting skills — he played the dour Detroit police chief in Beverly Hills Cop I and Il . |
| 3 | Mr Faulds is better known for the way he says things ( ie very loudly indeed ) than for what he says . |
| 4 | His first known job was of advising on the course alterations at Pyecombe in Sussex in 1902 , but he is better known for designing from scratch some of the country 's most stunning courses — Carnoustie , Dalmahoy , Blairgowrie and Royal Blackheath , plus many , many more . |
| 5 | Possibly it is better known for inaugurating and managing the Leven Wild Water Test which are the forerunner of all wild water racing in Britain . |
| 6 | Since Comshare is better known for its well-established Commander EIS product , it would be no surprise to find that many of its corporate FDC users began , like British Aerospace , as EIS users . |
| 7 | Thomas Telford is better known for such engineering feats as the Menai Suspension Bridge or the Caledonian Canal , or roads and bridges throughout the Highlands . |
| 8 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In Britain he is best known for the remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 11 | It is best known for its mouth-watering digestive biscuits , but some staggering statistics graphically illustrate the incredible production rate at United Biscuits . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The construction and development industry is best known for this and there were notable scandals in the 1970s which linked architects ( such as John Poulson ) , who were highly dependent on local authority orders , to key local politicians ( such as T. Dan Smith ) , who had some influence over their allocation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is best known for persecuting Indian peasants , especially the lower castes or ‘ Untouchables ’ , who may have stolen from a neighbour or have demonstrated dirty habits . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mlle Adjani , who made her first film , Faustine , at the age of 16 and is best known for The Story of Adele H , is now working on new film projects and promoting Christian Dior . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But the bird that is best known for extracting insects from wood by means of a tool is the woodpecker finch of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 23 | WACC has long-standing connections with the Center , which is best known for its quarterly magazine Media&Values . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Goldin is best known for her 1986 book , The Ballad of Sexual Dependency , an account of her intimates in the seamy Seventies nightlife of New York and Provincetown . |
| 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 | The Center for Media and Values is best known for its quarterly magazine Media & Values , which has received support from WACC in past years . |
| 29 | Lautner is best known for his pioneering of biomorphic styles , either in roadside , fast-food structures or on hillsides in the western United States . |
| 30 | Versace is best known for the razorsharp cut of his lightweight Cool Wool suits and for the baroque exuberance of his printed silk shirts , which combine cubist art with psychedelic putti and the goldwork of Cellini with Pop Art posters . |