Example sentences of "best know " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Staffordshire the jurors said that they knew ‘ by the evidence of old people , and by those who best know the truth of the matter , and by perambulations previously made ’ . |
| 2 | Other Swiss and leading foreign symphony orchestras also appear regularly , while the world 's best know , chamber ensembles and solo recitalists stop at Zurich on their travel as a matter of course . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For some reason best know to those who drafted the Bill , line 23 of clause 60 says that a railway means a system of transport employing parallel rails which ’ ( b ) form a track of a gauge of at least 350 millimetres . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps the most ‘ modern ’ of the Restoration writers is George Farquhar ; period artifice is not so obtrusive in his plays , the best known of which are The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux Stratagem . |
| 6 | Michael Denison 's best known film role was Algie in The Importance of Being Earnest and he appeared with Dulcie in My Brother Jonathan . |
| 7 | In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses . |
| 8 | Bedford Park is regarded as the first Garden Suburb in England , and thus has an international importance , while Shaw is one of the most important architects of the Victorian period , best known as the designer of the old New Scotland Yard building on the London Embankment . |
| 9 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 10 | The company was acquired last year by the regional brewer Riva , best known for its Dentergens wheat beer . |
| 11 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 12 | The country 's best known Mao impersonator , an actor called Gu Yue , has made a startling comeback in a new 90-minute epic portraying the last months of China 's civil war . |
| 13 | Karpov is the best known of the contestants . |
| 14 | Boursin , best known for its Boursin soft cheese and Boursault brands , made a net profit of £3.4m in 1988 on sales of £30m . |
| 15 | MANY OF the 60-odd species of slipper orchid , the best known and most popular orchid in the West , could be extinct within 10 years without tough measures to halt the vast illegal trade in wild varieties . |
| 16 | In Britain he is best known for the remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 17 | On the eve of his sentencing , Mr Nathan spoke to The Independent in the Tel Aviv office of the institution for which he is best known , his popular offshore radio station . |
| 18 | Jenni Murray will be interviewing the excellent American actor Ed Asner ( above ) who , although best known to Brits as Lou Grant , has been involved in numerous political movements . |
| 19 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 20 | Best known for his portrayal of Major Upshot-Bagley in the television series The Army Game . |
| 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 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 23 | Of the eight prisoners , Mr Sisulu is the best known , second only to Mr Mandela in both symbolic and substantial political importance . |
| 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 | Possibly the best known of these is the Mass of Reconciliation written for Coventry 25 years after the bombing ( a service which appeared on disc ) , and his association with the Three Choirs Festival which included his Te Deum in 1962 , his setting of ‘ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ’ at the opening service in 1977 , and the Benedicite ( in memory of Cecil Adams ) in 1986 . |
| 26 | The best known — because of their association with eggs — are Salmonella enteriditis and Salmonella typhimurium , which is alleged to have infected the nun 's flock . |
| 27 | The best known include John Charcol which has Kleinwort Benson , the merchant bank , as its loan provider , and P&G Associates , part of the London & Manchester Group , which offers Ecu loans . |
| 28 | The national trails , including paths like the Pennine Way , the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and the West Highland Way , tend to be the best known routes and deserve a rest after the summer of pounding they had . |
| 29 | The best known walking and skiing area in the country is the High Tatras in Slovakia . |
| 30 | One of the best known of Lindsay 's pieces of ‘ Higher Vaudeville ’ was ‘ The Congo ’ , which linked savage chants and jazz rhythms in a rather bathetically facile way that just misses being electrifying . |