Example sentences of "[prep] [be] named [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John Fisher , the First Sea Lord , was determined to maintain Great Britain 's supremacy and quickly grasped the potential of the design of a new warship , to be named Dreadnought . |
| 2 | Not to be named sub , to sit and give tea to people . |
| 3 | Houses to be built on the site of the former Cameron maternity hospital in Hartlepool are to be named Greenbank Court . |
| 4 | Ray Kipling voiced the Institution 's appreciation of the train 's name , saying : ‘ The RNLI is delighted that an InterCity 125 is to be named Storm Force after its junior club . |
| 5 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |
| 6 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |