Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] best know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is best known for her rings with tall bezels towering above slender hoops . |
| 2 | She is best known for her probable authorship of the anonymous pamphlet An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex ( 1696 ) , frequently ascribed to Mary Astell [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | It is best known for its mouth-watering digestive biscuits , but some staggering statistics graphically illustrate the incredible production rate at United Biscuits . |
| 4 | It is best known for persecuting Indian peasants , especially the lower castes or ‘ Untouchables ’ , who may have stolen from a neighbour or have demonstrated dirty habits . |
| 5 | It is best known from the presbytery garden at Chatillon-en-Diois in the French Alps , but has also been found in a single block in Poland , as a single specimen in Czechoslovakia , at a single locality in California and at not more than two or three other places in the world . |
| 6 | Its hillside position is exceptional and its views of the surrounding countryside entrancing , but it is best known among Italians as the place gentle Saint Francis is said to have tamed a mean , ferocious wolf which had been terrorising locals . |
| 7 | His field work has been in the Cycladic and Orkney Islands , and he is best known to the public through appearances on BBC TV 's ‘ Chronicle ’ programme , and for his book Before civilisation ( 1973 ) , which transformed prehistoric chronology by applying the results of Carbon 14 dating . |
| 8 | Mr Furbank is well-suited to the task , for he is best known as the biographer of E. M. Forster , and there was some similarity between the luminaries of Bloomsbury and the philosophes of the Enlightenment Salons . |
| 9 | In Britain he is best known for the remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He is best known for his epic poem Osman , which , although running to 11,000 lines , was unfinished at his death . |
| 12 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |