Example sentences of "[adv] the [adv] known [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.14 Lord Wright in Davies v Power Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 provided perhaps the best known expression of this fact . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best known play , and eventual film , about mental handicap was ‘ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg ’ based on the true-life story of Abigail , born to the playwright Peter Nichols , and born a spastic due to a difficult birth . |
| 3 | Daniel Lehrman is perhaps the best known critic , but there were ( and are ) many more . |
| 4 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 5 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 7 | The statutory undertakings discussed above are perhaps the best known examples of the implied terms recognised in the common law and have been codified as such . |
| 8 | Trading in the shares of a target company on the basis of inside information is perhaps the best known form of insider dealing . |
| 9 | Despite this problem we found only the well known associations between endometriosis and age and parity . |
| 10 | THE Rev Robert Schuller is possibly the best known television minister in America . |
| 11 | The Battle of Hastings , 1066 — probably the best known date in English History — was fought in the grounds of Battle Abbey . |
| 12 | Magdalen Tower is probably the best known symbol of Oxford . |
| 13 | This is the best known part of Lochaber and indeed probably the best known part of the Highlands , familiar to most visitors to Scotland , featured in ballads and too often in newspaper headlines , a Mecca for adventurers and everywhere displaying spectacular scenery on a grand scale . |
| 14 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 15 | Zero-based budgeting is probably the best known aspect of this rationalist approach . |
| 16 | Moore 's ( 1936 ) work on Nucella lapillus is probably the best known example . |
| 17 | Probably the best known Madeira folk dance group is that from Camacha , which was founded in 1948 under Dr Alfredo Ferreira de Nóbrega . |
| 18 | When war broke out the best known suffragettes turned overnight from militant confrontation with the male establishment to enthusiastic participation in the crusade against Prussianism . |
| 19 | The form of mental handicap known as ‘ Down 's Syndrome ’ is undoubtedly the best known type of handicap in Britain today . |
| 20 | The early part of the band 's career witnessed incredible international success , making them undoubtedly the best known exponents of rockabilly in the world — no mean feat for three guys just out of their teens . |
| 21 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 22 | MAYBE the region 's first certainly the best known women 's activist was Joan Maynard , born in Thirsk and , aged 71 , happily returned to her roots . |
| 23 | Apart from the Pazyryk carpet ( in the Hermitage , Leningrad ) , probably the most important , and certainly the best known specimen in existence is the Ardebil carpet , which is now housed in London 's Victoria and Albert Museum . |