Example sentences of "after [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |
| 2 | Playing in goal that day was the legendary Sam Bartram , after whom a road beside the ground has been named . |
| 3 | After whom a huge block of flats in Liverpool is named after , yeah ? |
| 4 | For instance , John Flaxman , after whom a gallery is named at Staffordshire University , became famous for his portrait medallions and classical reliefs and George Stubbs was keen to work with Wedgwood in order to experiment with enamel colours on ceramic plaques . |
| 5 | Henrietta Louisa , Countess of Pomfret , after whom the house is named , was so utterly besotted with the Gothic taste that she even thought of encasing Hawksmoor 's classical Easton Neston in the style . |
| 6 | Indeed , full recovery might never have occurred had it not been for the invasion of the area by the Lombards , the people after whom the plain on which the city is set and the region of which it is the capital are named . |
| 7 | The son of the Marquis after whom the palazzo is named was the founder of the library that bears the family name — the Biblioteca Trivulziana — and is now housed in the Sforza Castle . |
| 8 | This is Lady 's Pillar , erected in 1664 on the instructions of Lady Anne Clifford as a memorial to a friend , Sir Hugh Morville , after whom the fell is named . |
| 9 | According to an English dictionary of fables , ‘ King Cole was a legendary British king of the 4th century after whom the River Colne and town of Colchester in Essex are named . ’ |
| 10 | Warwickshire , the county of Percy Jeeves , killed in the First World War , and after whom the resourceful butler was named ; Warwickshire whose tie P.G . |
| 11 | FANS of the NFL associate the Green Bay Packers with legendary coach Vince Lombardi — after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named . |
| 12 | The third Duke of Roxburghe ( 1704–1804 ) , a collector on the grand scale after whom the exclusive bibliophilic Roxburghe Club was named , had a number of tracts concerning Mary Tofts , who perturbed the gynaecologists of her day by claiming to have given birth to a litter of rabbits . |
| 13 | Play Elvis Presley 's ‘ Teddy Bear ’ and you 're paying an oblique tribute to the memory of the 26th President , Theodore ‘ Teddy ’ Roosevelt , after whom the Teddy Bear was named . |
| 14 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 15 | LONDON TOWN 's biggest maverick , Cari , the man after whom the band is modestly named , seems to have finally found his pointy toed feet . |
| 16 | The fate of the grandmother after whom the baby was named confirms the ex officio importance of the queen . |
| 17 | Investigations in the temple of Aphrodite , after whom the city was named , have revealed evidence ofa long history for the cult of the goddess going back to the sixth century ac . |
| 18 | LONDON TOWN 's biggest maverick , Cari , the man after whom the band is modestly named , seems to have finally found his pointy toed feet . |
| 19 | Cycle races followed , and after them no one wanted ti disperse . |
| 20 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |
| 21 | He ca n't afford to look after them a bit better . |
| 22 | So many conductors — and I must say Furtwängler was sometimes one of these — create enormous crescendi ; and after them the music collapses . |
| 23 | And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance . |
| 24 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 25 | MARK Thatcher was facing a big tax increase last night after his the Swiss-based bosses reportedly ended his £80,000 contract six months early . |
| 26 | In fact , Soviet production did rise until 1978 , after which a run of six bad harvests and the inconsistencies of the Soviet economy produced stagnation . |
| 27 | However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect . |
| 28 | A period of a week will usually suffice for this purpose after which a stock-take is conducted and the level taken as the opening stock . |
| 29 | It is the Select Committee system , which can report to the House , after which a full debate can take place . |
| 30 | Starting from Birkdale Summit , an initial detour may be made to look into the open shaft of Jingling Pot nearby , after which a pathless course must be steered south-west across tedious grass to reach and climb the rough slopes building up to the Edge . |