Example sentences of "know for [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 2 | One trouble is that one would n't know for which integers k , if any , the replacement of x by x + k would change the given polynomial into Eisenstein form . |
| 3 | And were there certain men or women that were known for their stories ? |
| 4 | They are best known for their pantomimes and comedy and felt the need for a change . |
| 5 | To Leibniz he was ‘ The Irishman who attacks the reality of bodies … [ and ] belongs to the class of men who want to be known for their paradoxes ’ . |
| 6 | Singapore has long been known for its campaigns against littering , smoking , spitting and jay-walking , but it may be the only place in the world trying to toilet train an entire nation . |
| 7 | The allegations that Mr Singh , a former Congress ( I ) finance minister , had stashed millions of dollars in a numbered St Kitts account , were made in August in the Arab Times of Kuwait , not previously known for its scoops about India . |
| 8 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 9 | For Swan , the jockey with the choir boy looks , has become the punter 's friend in Irish racing , the rider the small man loves to follow with a confidence which is rare in a sport known for its uncertainties . |
| 10 | In addition to the sheep and wool market , Hawkshead was well known for its cattle market . |
| 11 | In a business known for its egos , Beatty has somehow persuaded major starts to show up almost incognito . |
| 12 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 13 | The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition . |
| 14 | Sheffield was already known for its knives by the fourteenth century — Chaucer refers to the miller in The Canterbury Tales as carrying a ‘ Sheffield thwitel ’ ( a large knife ) . |
| 15 | The company was acquired last year by the regional brewer Riva , best known for its Dentergens wheat beer . |
| 16 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 17 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 18 | Ahead of the rest : A descendant of George II , Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands is known for her hats |
| 19 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 20 | In an attempt to split the NLD , however , the military authorities shortly before the election released Myint Myint Khin , an NLD Executive Committee member known for her disagreements with the current NLD leadership . |
| 21 | She is best known for her rings with tall bezels towering above slender hoops . |
| 22 | The Socialist French Prime Minister , Edith Cresson , whose government is supported in office by one of the few unreformed Communist parties in Europe , is known for her comments about ‘ little yellow men ’ from Japan . |
| 23 | Miss Bond , 30 , known for her roles in ITV 's Rumpole Of The Bailey and the BBC 's The Ginger Tree , starred with Ralph Fiennes in Monday night 's Radio 4 play At Sea On Inya Lake . |
| 24 | The Belgian-born Hepburn is best known for her roles in such classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's . |
| 25 | In 1982 , she joined Guangming Ribao as a reporter , becoming known for her writings on women 's issues and her interviews with leading intellectuals . |
| 26 | The show , in the Gemeentemuseum , The Hague ( 1 February -30 June 1994 ) , will consist of fifty paintings and 150 drawings by this austere theoretician of the Modern movement , best known for his canvases painted with horizontal and vertical lines in primary colours . |
| 27 | The Dawn 's Delay ( 1924 ) and The Fall ( 1940 ) were his best volumes of fiction , but he was to become chiefly known for his essays and biographies . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Over three weeks McKee , well known for his masterclasses on screenplay writing , will aim to debunk horror , comedy and Ingrid Bergman in a new three-part strand in the Without Walls series starting March 31 . |
| 30 | David Mills , the erstwhile head of the Hazardous Chemical wing of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) — and well known for his criticisms of the lack of effective policing of what he defends as largely sound rules — says that placing high-temperature incinerators in some sort of hierarchy of risks is ‘ a terribly subjective business . ’ |