Example sentences of "known for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm known for a particular dish : snails with nettle sauce . |
| 2 | ‘ Peeping Tom ’ is well known for its cheerful yellow flowers . |
| 3 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 4 | Originally the Pinkertons were detectives but they became known for spying on union organizers and breaking strikes by violent means . |
| 5 | ‘ Nicholson 's is known for its high standards . |
| 6 | The company was acquired last year by the regional brewer Riva , best known for its Dentergens wheat beer . |
| 7 | Florrie , 85 , well known for her rescue work with Greyhounds , lost her many coursing trophies collected over the years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Half Moon Putney 93 Lower Richmond Rd , SW15 ( 788 2387 ) Better known for its jazz , but a good , wholesome venue for rock nonetheless . |
| 10 | Boursin , best known for its Boursin soft cheese and Boursault brands , made a net profit of £3.4m in 1988 on sales of £30m . |
| 11 | He has been savaged throughout his visit to Rome by an unusual alliance of fundamentalist Protestants and Tory MPs not usually known for their theological knowledge or zeal . |
| 12 | David Mills , the erstwhile head of the Hazardous Chemical wing of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) — and well known for his criticisms of the lack of effective policing of what he defends as largely sound rules — says that placing high-temperature incinerators in some sort of hierarchy of risks is ‘ a terribly subjective business . ’ |
| 13 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 14 | In Britain he is best known for the remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 15 | Joe Delaney , the FAI 's security officer , said : ‘ FIFA have known for long enough when and where this match would be played and the background to it . |
| 16 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 17 | Best known for his portrayal of Major Upshot-Bagley in the television series The Army Game . |
| 18 | Results are not known for at least four days , and to prevent the eggs going off the consignments are allowed through . |
| 19 | Designer John Byrne is probably better known for his stage plays and quirky graphics than for his stage sets , and his work generally has a sardonic and ironic quality eminently suited to Figaro . |
| 20 | WENSLEYDALE , better known for its cheese than its housing problems , is facing a serious shortage of houses which is forcing young people to move away from one of the most picturesque parts of the Yorkshire Dales , according to a survey published this week . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | THE TITLE of America 's wealthiest person bestowed each year by Forbes magazine has passed to John Kluge , a media baron from Virginia less known for his billions than his wife 's passion for the British royal family . |
| 23 | In Dresden , long known for a softer line than elsewhere , the Mayor , Wolfgang Berghofer , announced after talks with 20 church and New Forum opposition activists that he was willing to discuss their nine-point proposal , and release anyone arrested who was not accused of violence within 24 hours . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | VICE-CHANCELLORS are not normally known for their speed of action and this is how it should be : universities are reflective , discursive communities . |
| 26 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 27 | John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering . |
| 28 | Soon Richard Darman , the budget director not known for his light touch , will resume his attack . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The allegations that Mr Singh , a former Congress ( I ) finance minister , had stashed millions of dollars in a numbered St Kitts account , were made in August in the Arab Times of Kuwait , not previously known for its scoops about India . |