Example sentences of "not [adv] know for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at this end of the neck the Grover adjustable machineheads are smooth , and although budget guitars are not exactly known for their tuning stability , this guitar is reassuringly accurate . |
| 2 | Geophysicists are perhaps not best known for their romantic souls , and when they invented the dire appellation subduction zone , they probably overlooked the fact that precisely because of all this subterranean frenzy , each one is an area of quite extraordinary beauty . |
| 3 | ‘ Not best known for their reliability , mind , travelling about the country , never being in one place for more than a few weeks , got to be careful there . ’ |
| 4 | VICE-CHANCELLORS are not normally known for their speed of action and this is how it should be : universities are reflective , discursive communities . |
| 5 | Christians today are not normally known for their candour about doubt or for their confident ability to resolve it . |
| 6 | 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 . |