Example sentences of "[noun] named after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a well-known aperient named after the town in Czechoslovakia . |
| 2 | I slept in the suite named after the 13th Baron Willloughby who lived here in the 1770s . |
| 3 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 4 | old English country dance named after the character in Addison 's The Spectator ( 1711 ) ; often performed as the concluding theme of a ball . |
| 5 | The front door of the hotel looked out on John F. Kennedy Square , a wide-open space of seats and gardens named after the American President who had visited Galway in 1963 . |
| 6 | He was a practitioner of the old school who was intrigued to be asked to treat a child named after the mother of Oedipus , but unimpressed with anything she had to say . |
| 7 | The Ironbridge Gorge Museum is an extensive open-air museum embracing the buildings and industrial remains of the former cradle of the Industrial Revolution , centred on Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) , now part of the new town named after the great civil engineer Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) who was once Shropshire 's Surveyor of Public Works . |
| 8 | Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ? |
| 9 | In Imperial times , however , the custom became popular , under astrological influence , to use the seven-day week with the different days named after the respective ‘ planets ’ . |
| 10 | Indeed the telegraph was the sole reason for the existence of this huddle of buildings named after the wife of the cable station 's chief engineer . |
| 11 | The " Torogoces " , a music group named after a bird renowned for the beauty of its song , perform in the Morazan controlled zone . |
| 12 | He was a founding member of the John Birch Society , an ultra-right group named after the first US soldier to be killed in the Korean War . |
| 13 | In an effort to separate as far as possible the discussion of equity from the discussion of efficiency , modern welfare economics uses the idea of Pareto-efficiency named after the economist Vilfredo Pareto whose Manuel D'Economie Politique was published as long ago as 1909 . |
| 14 | She had n't seen Wenceslas Square yet , she itemised , and to see the square named after the patron saint of the Bohemian kingdom was surely a must for any visitor to Prague ! |
| 15 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 16 | When the Wallabies arrived at the ‘ Dan Qeqe ’ ground named after the inspired player , administrator and community leader who convinced Ford-USA to put money up front to finance it , and inspired the township youngsters to build it , they were met by an expectant crown of youngsters . |
| 17 | The international prize named after the Italian publisher Max Bretschneider is presented every five years to a work on pre-historic to Medieval art history . |
| 18 | We saw a lot of the Bakers , and did day trips ; one to the historic railway at Weka Pass ; another to Mt.Herbert , the highest point on Banks Peninsula ( wonderful views over Lyttleton Harbour ) and Pigeon Bay ; and several visits to local beaches at Sumner and Taylor 's Mistake ( a bay named after a captain who thought it was the entrance to Lyttleton Harbour ) . |
| 19 | Well , sort of , considering that it 's co-produced by a man named after a Blue Peter dog , Shep Pettibone . |
| 20 | Moving round the archways of Valencia 's bull-ring where , that night , Nirvana would give Spain its first in-the-flesh taste of what this nonsense was all about , it was almost a relief to greet Kurt Cobain once again , a paler , bleached-haired , bespectacled Kurt Cobain , but recognisably the same lovable scruff who late last year turned rock 'n' roll upside down with a song named after a deodorant . |
| 21 | The winners of the Sid Chaplin short story competition named after the Shildon-born writer were announced at the town 's civic centre . |
| 22 | WINNERS of the Sid Chaplin short story competition named after the Shildon-born writer were announced at the town 's civic centre . |
| 23 | Their firm , Wild Thing named after The Troggs ' hit officially starts next week , making large papier mache models and sculptures . |
| 24 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 25 | Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens . |
| 26 | The flower named after the explorer was unveiled at the British Rose Festival at Hampton Court where the Queen was among the visitors … the striped bloom is n't unique … but it is unusual … but how they get it remains a well kept secret . |
| 27 | The basilica stands in a piazza named after the church , where there are also three small granite columns marking the entrance to the Vicolo Santa Caterina . |
| 28 | dried root strongly violet-scented increasing with age ; used as fixative in potpourri , in perfumery manufacture , as part of " frangipani " , the Italian perfume named after the tropical tree whose flowers have the same fragrance |
| 29 | A difficult manoeuvre named after the pilot who had invented it . |
| 30 | The tigers had to go , too — although not before one had terrified drinkers by leaping into the bar of the famous hotel named after the city 's founder . |