Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] know for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masri , 49 , the country 's first Palestinian-born Prime Minister since 1972 , who had held the post of Foreign Minister intermittently for five years , most recently in the previous government [ see p. 37976 ] , was widely known for his liberal , pro-Western views . |
| 2 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sir Geraint was best known for his portrayal of Falstaff . |
| 6 | Peach was best known for his geological fieldwork in Scotland with John Horne [ q.v. ] , |
| 7 | Warner was best known for his work on optics and mathematics . |
| 8 | However , Davison was best known for his work as a writer on the history of British earthquakes and seismology in general . |
| 9 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 10 | Before today farmer Richard Cheshire was best known for his prize-winning sheep . |
| 11 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 12 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 13 | Thomas Fairchild ( 1667–1729 ) was already known for his City Gardener , with its advice on flowers , evergreens and shrubs suitable for London gardens and another member , Robert Furber , who experimented with many new trees and plants in his Kensington nursery numbered a horse chestnut with a scarlet flower amongst his novelties . |
| 14 | Brozie Herrington was always known for his homemade sweets , and among the older generation " Brozies Homemade " were well known . |
| 15 | But Mills was also known for his resilient and bubbly personality and he had even been a Samaritan . |
| 16 | Varley was also known for his ‘ purity lectures ’ , which sought to make men serious , sober , and sexually abstemious . |
| 17 | He was also known for his interest in ecological and environmental issues and , although located on the centre-right of the Democratic Party , shared Clinton 's belief in the right of women to choose to have an abortion . |
| 18 | Later still he was well known for his work in education . |
| 19 | Duke Berthold of Zähringen was now put up as the candidate of the Welfs because he appeared a man of means and was well known for his hostility to the Staufer . |
| 20 | The old general was a traditionalist who believed in the rule of authority , and was well known for his right-wing views . |