Example sentences of "it [verb] its name " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 2 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 3 | " I do n't know how it got its name , no , " replied the older boy smiling patiently , " but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me . " |
| 4 | She could see where it got its name . |
| 5 | It changed its name to Green , was taken up by fashionable and powerful people and now everyone claims to be Green . |
| 6 | At the time it changed its name to Bell Lawrie White and McIntosh remained managing director . |
| 7 | The ZSL — challenged by the emergence of the PSL and the PSL-S , and faced with the expression of mass support by its membership for the PSL — had brought forward its 11th extraordinary congress to Nov. 26-27 , 1989 , when it changed its name to the PSL-Rebirth ( PSL — Odrodzenie ) . |
| 8 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 9 | It owes its name to the fact that it was used as the floor covering at the coronation of Frederik IV in 1699 , and that of all subsequent absolute kings . |
| 10 | The Reik is actually the longest single river in the Old World , although only because it bears its name from its source in the Upper Reik to where it joins the sea at Marienburg . |
| 11 | From the Mediterranean coastlands , it obtained its name from the Latin ros and maris , dew of the sea , and has had associations with the mind and improving the memory since classical times ; witness the famous quotation in Hamlet , of poor Ophelia : " There 's rosemary , that 's for remembrance " . |
| 12 | It gets its name from the very large , sail-like , first dorsal fin . |
| 13 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 14 | It gets its name from being slammed against the bar-top and downed in one go . |
| 15 | It gets its name from the Silurian Epoch — a period around 450 million years ago when the rocks which make up the skeleton and the soil of the Grizedale Forest were formed . |
| 16 | It gets its name because of the one-time importance of the weaving industry in the area . |
| 17 | Its mile-long street , continuously built up along the side facing the loch from which it gets its name , has many shops , banks , garages , hotels and guest houses , patronised by customers from a wide area and by the touring motorists who pass through and invariably halt . |
| 18 | It gets its name from what you can see in the far distance , provided the weather is right , which is the first peaks of the real Pyrenees . |
| 19 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 20 | It gets its name from an analogy with a chain of firefighters passing buckets of water . |
| 21 | It gets its name from the letter M which originally was as wide as the type size . |
| 22 | It gets its name from the belief that such a flower could only come from the home of a god — Mt Parnassus . |
| 23 | It gets its name from the fact that it requires a fighter simply to raise his hands in a defensive position and bend his legs slightly , almost as if he were walking down the street . |
| 24 | It displayed its name in large fancy lettering . |
| 25 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 26 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 27 | It takes its name from the Norse word ‘ lax ’ meaning salmon , which once swam in the river . |
| 28 | It takes its name from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights : ‘ Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |