Example sentences of "[be] best know for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There was also a bespectacled Cambridge undergraduate , aged twenty-two called Bamber Gascoigne — later to be best known for his TV quiz show success University Challenge . |
| 3 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 4 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lautner is best known for his pioneering of biomorphic styles , either in roadside , fast-food structures or on hillsides in the western United States . |
| 16 | David Emanuel ( above ) is best known for his role in creating Princess Diana 's fairy tale wedding dress , and he is still a high-society favourite for his Ascot suits and Royal haute couture . |
| 17 | Lombroso is best known for his theory , derived from Charles Darwin , that criminals were atavistic throwbacks to an earlier stage of evolution . |
| 18 | He is best known for his epic poem Osman , which , although running to 11,000 lines , was unfinished at his death . |
| 19 | His near contemporary and namesake , Jaketa Palmotić ( Dionović ) , is best known for his long epic poem Ragusa Restored , which describes the tragedy of the 1667 earthquake , in which the author 's wife and children perished , and the efforts of the republic to rebuild the city . |
| 20 | , John ( d. c. 1639 ) , Puritan minister , is best known for his influential millenarian treatise , published posthumously . |
| 21 | Alanson is best known for his improvements in the technique of amputation , and his important suggestions for hospital reform were a vital adjunct to his new surgical methods . |
| 22 | Lemon is best known for his involvement with Sunderland ; he made over 100 appearances for the Roker men . |
| 23 | Bailey , of course , is best known for his many gritty displays as an allround cricketer . |
| 24 | Associated in the past with Welsh National Opera , the conductor Andrew Greenwood proved a card-carrying Donizettian and the director , Patrick Mason , although no newcomer to opera , is best known for his brilliant staging of Dancing at Lughnasa . |
| 25 | Anthony Kerr ( vibraphone ) has worked in Europe with Louis Stewart , Georgie Fame and Kenny Wheeler ; Stan Sulzmann ( tenor sax ) is a featured soloist in Kenny Wheeler 's latest big band and known for his work with Clark Terry , John Taylor , Phil Woods and Gil Evans ; Wayne Bachelor ( bass ) leads his own quartet and has worked abroad with Courtney Pine , Steve Williamson and Jean Toussaint ; Stephen Keogh ( drums ) , now resident in Barcelona , is best known for his work with Louis Stewart , Hal Galper , Charles McPherson and Peter King . |
| 26 | ISAAC ASIMOV , who has died in New York aged 72 , was best known for his works of science fiction , a genre in which he reigned supreme , but he could also claim to have written more books about more subjects than any other author . |
| 27 | Cardew was best known for his portrayal of the comic character Cardew the Cad , a tall overgrown schoolboy who wore short trousers , cap and scarf and recalled school pranks while on stage . |
| 28 | Sir Geraint was best known for his portrayal of Falstaff . |
| 29 | Peach was best known for his geological fieldwork in Scotland with John Horne [ q.v. ] , |
| 30 | Warner was best known for his work on optics and mathematics . |