Example sentences of "[is] name after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , although this train is named after a bard who loved the towns and villages of East Anglia , a thorough search of his complete oeuvre fails to come up with a single reference to Lowestoft . |
| 2 | The island is named after a daughter of King Bela IV who pledged to build a Dominican convent for her on the island if the Mongols could be defeated . |
| 3 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 4 | It is likely , though , that few Ayrshire folk will know that a prominent part of the city 's waterfront is named after a native of the county . |
| 5 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 6 | Each grade is named after a town , river or mountain ( which has no connection with where the rug was actually made ) , but all grades are produced in traditional Persian and Caucasian designs . |
| 7 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 8 | The Madeleine Newton Fund for Alternative Cancer Research and Treatment is named after a primary school teacher who died of breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 32 . |
| 9 | Accents are not permitted , so that , if an organism is named after a person , amendment may be necessary ; the name of Muller , for example , has been altered in the genus Muellerius . |
| 10 | Every year a Brackley sweetpea is named after a personality . |
| 11 | No prizes either for guessing his four-legged friend is named after a famous Liverpool manager . |
| 12 | The condom is a name the condom is named after A , single people living in condominium , B , the man who invented it Doctor Condom or C the Egyptian word for |
| 13 | It is named after the book by Stoppani , whose portrait is imposed over a map of Italy on the foil packaging . |
| 14 | It is named after the Tabasco region of Mexico where the peppers used in its production are grown . |
| 15 | The genus is named after the famous Greek philosopher , and inventor of the ‘ Archimedes screw ’ . |
| 16 | The Piazza is named after the Piermarini fountain that stands at its centre . |
| 17 | The palazzo is named after the rich merchant , Giova Battista Durini , for whom it was built . |
| 18 | The medal is named after the late Dr Eliot P. Joslin , who wrote the standard textbook on the treatment of diabetes . |
| 19 | The district of Haltemprice is named after the no longer evident Haltemprice Priory . |
| 20 | The radio-friendly ‘ Talk Much ’ features a couple of serious John DaSilva mixes , one of which is named after the Hacienda Shiva nights . |
| 21 | Chicago is named after the Indian word for the wild onions that flourish on the banks of Lake Michigan — Checagou . |
| 22 | Titled the Leopoldo Cicognara Conference , it is named after the eary nineteenth-century Venetian ( d. 1834 ) who compiled the first bibliography of art-historical literature . |
| 23 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 24 | Sheffield Polytechnic 's student union is named after the South African black revolutionary Nelson Mandela , but still the streets and civic buildings are n't named after strikes , or tenants . |
| 25 | Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love . |
| 26 | This is the Poynting-Robertson effect , and is named after the British physicist John Henry Poynting ( 1852–1914 ) and the American physicist Howard Percy Robertson ( 1903–1961 ) . |
| 27 | The Curie temperature is simply the temperature above which a substance can not retain a magnetic field in the absence of a generating process , and is named after the French physicist Pierre Curie ( 1859–1906 ) . |
| 28 | The grid scheme of city layout with streets crossing one another at right angles and with a uniformity of street width and building design , which became the pattern for the classical world of Greece and Rome and was later adopted in Europe and modern America , was developed in Ionian Greece from the seventh century B.C. ; this street pattern is often referred to as Milesian because it is named after the city of Miletos on the coast of Asia Minor . |
| 29 | The new day ward is named after the late Doris Field , whose money helped get it going . |
| 30 | MEMORIES of the Flying Scotsman are likely to be evoked at Waverley Station today when one of InterCity 's most powerful locomotives , the Class 91 , is named after The Scotsman . |