Example sentences of "well know in the " in BNC.

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1 After all SHE was the newcomer , and HE had starred alongside Michael J Fox in Bright Lights , Big City , and was better known in the movie-world .
2 Mr Shrager is better known in the City .
3 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 .
4 More recently , artists such as Boldini , De Nittis , Segantini , Zandomeneghi and the Macchiaioli have become better known in the States , but Palagi , Favretto , Hayez and Toma are virtually unrecognised , as are many others .
5 In fact they were stereotypes , well known in the popular theatre and instantly recognised as are supercilious members of the upper classes , superior servants and prostitutes .
6 Asked what she thought of Slava Zaitsev , the man who has dressed rich Soviet women and diplomats ' wives since the Brezhnev era and the only Soviet fashion designer well known in the West , she curled up her nose .
7 But North had one up his sleeve already , right there in the next verse of Galatians , soon to become exceedingly well known in the loopy , spidery hand of the President .
8 He was very well known in the area .
9 The PAS is well known in the city and receives the overwhelming majority of the section assessment requests received during normal working hours .
10 They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre .
11 The incident which precipitated the riot began when police-officers stopped a car driven by Floyd Jarrett , a 23-year-old black man well known in the area .
12 These Permian and Triassic salts , well known in the Cheshire Basin and in the Irish Sea Basin ( Colter and Barr 1975 ) , have so far only been identified in Ireland in and around the Larne Basin , though it would be surprising if that was the limit of their former extent .
13 As his reputation for making commemorative seats is well known in the area , it is certain he will quickly find a ready market for his work .
14 Finally , another highly individualistic album : ‘ Metamorphosis ’ by the World Saxophone Quartet ( Elektra-Nonesuch ) ; not so well known in the UK as an ensemble , its members — David Murray ( tenor sax , bass clarinet ) , Oliver Lake ( alto , soprano saxophones and flute ) , Hamiet Bluiett ( baritone sax ) and Arthur Blythe ( alto sax ) — are however individually ( and , as you will find , jointly ) something rather special .
15 The story was well known in the early 1930s , and was retold in 1963 by Szent-Györgyi himself ( Ann .
16 I had progressed to Golas , which were quite well known in the seventies .
17 The commonest evasions , certainly well known in the twelfth century , were the pretence that the original loan was greater than in fact it was , or the securing of a loan by a temporary grant of land ; in the former case the difference between the actual loan and the repayment in fact constituted interest ; and in the latter the rent on the land might do the same .
18 My Tyrrell is well known in the Runcorn area and in Cheshire , being chairman of the Chester County Council .
19 Mistress Oaks was well known in the district for keeping a good table and now the snowy white cloths were spread with an abundance of good things , fulfilling all their expectations .
20 The best child-minders are usually well known in the area and come recommended by friends or colleagues .
21 And he was well known in the City , where there was still respect for a solid Yorkshire businessman .
22 The 48-year-old New Zealander did not apply for the job in so many words , but it was well known in the British territory 's rugby circles that he was available , if asked .
23 It is well known in the executive search world that it is hard to prise really good people out of IBM or indeed attract those out of IBM whom IBM truly wish to keep .
24 Springhill Community House is well known in the area , both for its own work and its connections with the Conway Mill .
25 The arrival of the carrack and the news of her betrothal was now well known in the barony , and the valedictory Mass said for her in the church of St James in Dingle was attended by the town Sovereign and the local dignitaries and as many of the working folk of Dingle and the surrounding villages as could find kneeling space in the church .
26 Wilson had employed a lawyer who , according to Simon Draper , was ‘ well known in the record industry for never being able to conclude an agreement ’ .
27 ‘ My father was well known in the old days .
28 may be delayed when dementia sufferer lives alone , or is not well known in the community ( eg crowded city areas ; living in multi-storey blocks , or has recently moved to a new area ) .
29 Trade Indemnity , owned by 5–7 major shareholders , well known in the insurance and reinsurance market would be good for TI and good for its policyholders .
30 In 1825 he used an artesian tube to sink what was then the largest well known in the country , eighty feet deep and thirty feet wide .
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