Example sentences of "well known to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 2 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 3 | Had he not been followed as a Surrey opener by Jack Hobbs , then perhaps he would be better known to posterity . |
| 4 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 5 | They need to be ‘ better known to nature ’ too , prior in the order of things to the conclusions established on their basis . |
| 6 | Arthur Wilson was better known to thousands , perhaps millions , of his countrymen in Britain and Ireland as ‘ Faed ’ , the pen-name by which he contributed hundreds of articles on cycling to cycling magazines , including his own , and published books on the sport . |
| 7 | She is better known to us of course as Diana Clunt . ’ |
| 8 | Christianity came to the Franks when , in 496 , Clovis was baptised by Bishop Remigius ( better known to us as Saint-Rémy ) whose name surely is a reminder of the ancient Remi . |
| 9 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 10 | Despite his aspirations to poetry , he became better-known as a prose writer in his minutes and despatches as a statesman , for ‘ Owen Meredith ’ , better known to history as Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton , first Earl of Lytton ( 1831–91 ) , became a distinguished diplomat , the climax of his career coming in 1876–80 when he served as Viceroy of India and in that capacity proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress at Delhi in 1877 . |
| 11 | The stars turned out to pay tribute to Fred Scuttle — better known to us as … ? |
| 12 | BETTER KNOWN to most readers of this paper as the label responsible for Headbutt , Mega City Four , Bizarre Inc and J Saul Kane 's various aliases , Vinyl Solution are the UK 's forgotten rap indie . |
| 13 | The loser in April was a certain Robert Paparemborde , better known to the British public as the prop with sloping shoulders who was very difficult to scrummage against . |
| 14 | And then there was the bitter break up with The Group who shall forever more remain nameless in Ryan-land , better known to us , perhaps , as blood relations of Enya 's . |
| 15 | less reliable supporters give away one or more of these to candidates of other parties who are better known to them . |
| 16 | For longer-distance migration the destinations are likely to be places that are better known to tourists or are considered to be scenically more attractive . |
| 17 | It is the first drop of a deluge of such material , which makes social life in Egypt in the centuries after Alexander better known to us than any other part of the ancient world . |
| 18 | The music publishing company was also showing a healthy profit , particularly with the coming success of a young Newcastle songwriter , contracted to the company under the name of Gordon Sumner , but better known to the record-buying public as Sting . |
| 19 | ‘ Sting ’ , as Sumner was better known to the record-buying public , had been signed to Virgin music publishing as a complete unknown in 1976 . |
| 20 | His name and achievements became better known to the general public , however , in the sphere of lighter music : in operetta rather than in opera , and above all in the stage works of Franz Lehár , in which he charmed thousands by his sympathetic tenor quality and by the grace and variety of his vocal inflections . |
| 21 | She is perhaps better known to the local community for her involvement with two Gaelic choirs . |
| 22 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 23 | It is with regret that we report the death on 30 July 1992 of Margaret Blaikie , better known to her Salas colleagues as Miss Margaret Berry . |
| 24 | Well Lamarckism is named after er , Jean Baptiste Antoine de Monet , better known to us as Lamarck , and the , the prime notion of Lamarckism , according in Darwin , let's try and get that over there a bit more is evolution by will . |
| 25 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 27 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 28 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |
| 29 | The official figures showed the party membership to be around 650,000 ; the real figures were well known to be far below that number , possibly below 300,000 , with an undue proportion being middle-class activists who had taken over old and decaying working-class parties or management committees . |
| 30 | Most of the twenty or so men and women in the Cabinet are well known to one another and have worked together over some years . |