Example sentences of "[be] best know for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are best known for their pantomimes and comedy and felt the need for a change . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | She is best known for her rings with tall bezels towering above slender hoops . |
| 7 | The Belgian-born Hepburn is best known for her roles in such classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's . |
| 8 | Now , Harwell laboratory is best known for its contribution to nuclear research but the scientist there have revealed a secret life . |
| 9 | Birthright is a charity which funds research projects to improve the health of women and their babies , and is best known for its work on pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 10 | To many people the Salvation Army is best known for its band and this certainly holds an important place in its life and worship . |
| 11 | Lemon is best known for his involvement with Sunderland ; he made over 100 appearances for the Roker men . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Lombroso is best known for his theory , derived from Charles Darwin , that criminals were atavistic throwbacks to an earlier stage of evolution . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lautner is best known for his pioneering of biomorphic styles , either in roadside , fast-food structures or on hillsides in the western United States . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The 1961 Programme , hailed by Khrushchev as a ‘ Communist Manifesto of the modern era ’ , was best known for its assumption that the achievement of a fully communist society had become an ‘ immediate practical task for the Soviet people ’ . |
| 26 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sir Geraint was best known for his portrayal of Falstaff . |
| 30 | Warner was best known for his work on optics and mathematics . |