Example sentences of "[is] well [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister David Lange may be know internationally as the David who slew the nuclear giant , but locally he 's better known as the man whose monetarist Minister of Finance , Roger Douglas , has led a successful crusade to corporatise government and unshackle the economuy . |
| 2 | They 'd gathered for the launch of the Celebrities Cookbook by Richard Wilson , who 's better known as the crusty and cantankerous Victor Meldrew . |
| 3 | The music 's better known as The Entertainer by Scott Joplin . |
| 4 | Thus it follows that skill training is more generalised and generalisable and is better fitted to the overall role of human operators . |
| 5 | To take a rather obvious example , women 's liberation today is better understood in the light of its ambient social and economic circumstances than as the inevitable culmination of the nineteenth-century suffragette movement . |
| 6 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 7 | But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school . |
| 8 | This is a task that is better done by the human eye , together with — and this is more to the point — the 10-giganeurone computer inside the skull . |
| 9 | Iron from non meat sources is better absorbed by the body if it is eaten with a source of vitamin C , so try to have your cereal with a glass of fresh orange or your lentils with a tomato based sauce and so on . |
| 10 | While there are some aspects of general SVQs that will require further consideration , such as articulation with Standard Grade , accreditation of prior learning , and flexibility in the vocational options , we do feel that the curriculum now on offer in the upper school is better geared to the needs of the students . ’ |
| 11 | That is , in effect , to argue that the market , left alone , has determined that the application of resources to the creation of wealth is better undertaken by the conventional form . |
| 12 | The explanation is better sought in the specific social and material circumstances and their articulation with political and ideological structures . |
| 13 | Les never made it , but he 's no stranger to the wearing of shorts : the sub is better known as the FRUITBAT , third from the left in the front row of the pic . |
| 14 | The first of these , from Beeches Road , Cirencester , is better known as the " Hare mosaic " . |
| 15 | Mr Faulds is better known for the way he says things ( ie very loudly indeed ) than for what he says . |
| 16 | Did you know that almost all modern dentures are made by polymerising methyl methacrylate ? the name is a bit of a mouthful ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) , and is better known by the acronym MMA . |
| 17 | Mr Shrager is better known in the City . |
| 18 | We owe a lot to Tom who still has a fondness for his kites , although he is better known in the 1990s as the creator of the GeoSphere Project , a spectacular image of the Earth produced from over 2000 satellite images . |
| 19 | We now have the opportunity to demonstrate in practice that our more hybrid approach is better suited to the needs of the next decade . |
| 20 | If this interpretation is correct , curriculum managers who wish to manage the curriculum in the sense of modifying it so that it is better adapted to the needs of real children and a real society , will be best advised not simply to resist and criticise , but rather to use the power that many people at all levels of the system actually have . |
| 21 | Group income is better measured by the inclusion of dividend and interest income . |
| 22 | Even now his contemporaries raise their eyes and murmur ‘ Ssshh ’ because there are still alive those whose feelings might be hurt and the extent of it all is better buried under the marriages and the more undeniable liaisons . |
| 23 | The RSC is keen that as many chemists as possible are familiar with communication techniques and that the profession is well represented in the ranks of the media . |
| 24 | The range of craft skills in use during the early Anglo-Saxon period is well represented in the archaeological record , although unevenly studied . |
| 25 | The general dictionary works well in this case because the ’ concreteness ’ and generality of Estate Agents ' literature is well represented in the LOB corpus . |
| 26 | ULSTER is well represented in the semi-finals of the Dun Laoghaire 31st annual tournament . |
| 27 | This aspect of lost practical and discursive consciousness is well recognised in the literature on dementia , although it is usually described in the language of psychogeriatrics . |
| 28 | And a little later Havelock Ellis noted ( also citing Booth ) that : ‘ The advantage for women of free sexual unions over compulsory marriage is well recognised in the case of the working classes in London , amongst whom sexual relationships before marriage are not unusual and are indulgently regarded . ’ |
| 29 | The danger of attempting to categorise the situations in which equitable relief will be afforded is well recognised in the authorities and , if I may say so , rightly . |
| 30 | Touting for criminal business was and is well recognised within the profession , and those in close contact with it . |