Example sentences of "not [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally — Editor Steve Windsor is not widely known for his psychic powers , but it does seem some of his predictions come true . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | VICE-CHANCELLORS are not normally known for their speed of action and this is how it should be : universities are reflective , discursive communities . |
| 7 | Christians today are not normally known for their candour about doubt or for their confident ability to resolve it . |
| 8 | Afterwards , the New Zealand captain , speaking softly , confessed he was ‘ devastated ’ , while Gooch , not normally known for emotion , seemed more than a little chuffed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This particular film has quite a strong political statement to make , which is something that I 'm not really known for . |
| 11 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | String theories also lead to infinities , but it is thought they will all cancel out in versions like the heterotic string ( though this is not yet known for certain ) . |
| 14 | How long he survived his restoration is not certainly known for Northumbrian regnal tradition retained no memory of Eardwulf 's second reign , but there is a possibility that it lasted some three or four years ( see below , p. 196 ) . |