Example sentences of "[was/were] named after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famous University of Nalanda — ‘ the place that confers the lotus ’ ( or spiritual knowledge ) — which flourished near Patna in the State of Bihar between the fifth and twelfth centuries , was named after a Naga King . |
| 2 | Historians say that Anerley Station was named after a villa owned by a Scots merchant and meaning ‘ Lonely ’ and the area is said to have been developed between 1853 and 1858 . |
| 3 | The small town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch was named after a Breton nobleman and has a castle where in 1569 Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned . |
| 4 | After the first loch the track rises sharply over the shoulder of the Carn Bad nah-Achlaise before running along the side of Loch Mhic'ille Riabhaich which was named after a local 16th century outlaw . |
| 5 | This was named after a village near Haverhill , Suffolk . |
| 6 | Bull Pot of the Witches , by the way , may mean just that , that it was named after a witch or witches that lived in the area . |
| 7 | This was named after a 19th century frontier poet who , according to the organiser of the competition , Don Nilsen , was a ‘ cross between Alfred , Lord Tennyson and Chief Sitting Bull ’ , and was ‘ so outstandingly bad that somehow she was good ’ . |
| 8 | We used to joke that she was named after a local cinema . |
| 9 | Harvey told me how each part of the computer was named after a section of the human brain : the Medulla , Pons and Midbrain . |
| 10 | The Heys who were born , married and died in Thurlstone township within Penistone parish , were indexed under Wortley registration district , which was named after a small village 6 miles away . |
| 11 | The first ship , Murex , was named after a shell , a tradition which has persisted to the present . |
| 12 | Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who , we agreed , must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities . |
| 13 | ‘ Inanna ’ was such a beautiful horse that she was named after the Sumerian Queen of Heaven . |
| 14 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 15 | He was instrumental in developing Oxford and Cambridge Roads — both named after the Universities that held their annual river boat race on the River Thames into the Chiswick area — also Harvard Road , which was named after the American University who rowed against Oxford and Cambridge , at about that time , He extended his development to the other side of Chiswick High Road , including Thorney Hedge Road and Silver Crescent , Mr Tomlinson built houses in other areas close by , including Clarence Road , off Wellesley Road , and his son , Richard , became an architect and was involved in the building of the Gunnersbury Baptist Church in Wellesley Road . |
| 16 | It was named after the nearby Inn , the ‘ Star and Garter Home ’ , and it still provides for the needs of such servicemen , the newer inmates generally rendered handicapped as a result of their tours or duty in Northern Ireland , also some from the Falkland conflict . |
| 17 | The hamlet of Darby Green was named after the notorious parson . |
| 18 | It was said that the Kahanamokus were the descendants of Kamehameha the Great , but Duke inherited his name from his father , a Honolulu police captain who was named after the then Duke of Edinburgh following his visit to the Islands in 1869 . |
| 19 | Much later in European history that day was named after the Scandinavian goddess Freya . |
| 20 | Originally called Takshasila , the city was named after the great Naga Chief , Takshaka , referred to as a ‘ carpenter ’ and a great healer in Vedic literature , possessing the power to cure diseases as well as snakebite . |
| 21 | Pik Pobeda , which means ‘ victory peak ’ and was named after the Soviet victory in World War Two , is a sterner proposition altogether . |
| 22 | The BF on the other hand was named after the new Italian experiment in 1923 , even though it had little direct knowledge of the aims and ideas of Mussolini . |
| 23 | The vessel , which was named after the statue erected by students in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square during the 1989 protests [ see pp. 36640-42 ; 36720-22 ] , left France on March 17 and was due to dock in Taiwan to take on supplies before beginning anti-communist broadcasts from international waters off the coast of China . |
| 24 | Eldorado shutdown proves all that glitters is n't golden Eldorado was named after the legendary land where wealth was easily made . |
| 25 | Based on a London Mild recipe from 175O , the latter was originally drunk by London fish and market porters and was named after the brewer 's dog ! |
| 26 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 27 | But he was n't the sort to have actually read The Alchemist and probably thought his street was named after an American President . |