Example sentences of "be [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolo del'Abbate are better known for their work outside their native city , and an outsider , Dionys Calvaert , adopted Bologna to exert great influence on the next generation of painters . |
| 2 | Microprose are better known for their comprehensive Simulations such as F-15 II Strike Eagle , and Gunship 2000 , their latest release is a strategy type Role Playing Game called Darklands . |
| 3 | The postcrania are only known for ‘ Kenyapithecus ’ from Maboko Island , and they indicate little change from the generalized arboreal quadrupedalism present in the early Miocene hominoids like Proconsul . |
| 4 | They are best known for their pantomimes and comedy and felt the need for a change . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Joanna Lumley may be better known for her recent performance in ‘ Absolutely Fabulous , ’ but she is also president of Farms for City Children . |
| 7 | During its history 19 has achieved many ‘ first ’ , the first British unit to receive the French SPAD , the first to operate the Sopwith Dolphin , the first squadron to be equipped with the supersonic Lightning F.2 , but 19 will probably be best known for being the first RAF Squadron to receive the Spitfire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Women wear saris and I 'm well known for my spicy food . |
| 12 | ‘ Like all Sards , I 'm well known for my gallantry . ’ |
| 13 | The cause of the plane crash in the outer Hebrides yesterday which killed the ten-man crew of and R A F Shackleton aircraft , may never be fully known for the plane is too old to be fitted with a black box flight recorder . |
| 14 | I do n't think we Americans are particularly known for our sense of humility . |
| 15 | ‘ He has always been well known for having a good and natural relationship with young people . |
| 16 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 17 | The great advantage of having a fixed date er for these European elections on the ninth of June , a date that 's been well known for a considerable time now , should be the certainty for the electorate , that they know not only the date of that election but the geographical boundary er of the constituency in which they live er the candidates that they can choose from and of course in relation to European elections , the number of er members of the European parliament that there will be representing the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 19 | In Britain , his followers are well known for their ownership of Mentmore Towers , the palatial former home of the Earls of Rosebery . |
| 20 | Farmers are well known for their conservatism . |
| 21 | When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals . |
| 22 | Cockneys are well known for rhyming slang . |
| 23 | Though cuckoos are well known for laying their eggs in the nests of other species , more species of the cuckoo family build nests and incubate their eggs than do not There are in fact 80 species that act as true parents to their young . |
| 24 | Capricorns are well known for their blunt mannerisms . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the Angolan people are well known for their friendliness to foreigners and for their placid and kind nature . |
| 26 | There are a number of printers with whom MAS has worked already ( some being clients ) who are well known for security printing . |
| 27 | The Cordon Rouge ( dry ) and Cordon Vert ( medium ) are well known for their distinctive striped labels , whilst the Crémant de Cramant is a lighter delicate wine produced only from Chardonnay grapes grown around the village of Cramant . |
| 28 | Tesco are well known for their energy saving initiatives . |
| 29 | They are well known for their methodological rigour , and they study factors relating to depression of clinical significance , that is , their cases have symptoms at least as numerous and severe as those treated by psychiatrists in out-patient settings . |
| 30 | Tylers have never recognized any union and are well known for the low rates and poor conditions that they impose on their workers . |