Example sentences of "give [pron] name [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station has given its name to an anxiety state , defined by Cyril Connolly as angoisse des gares : |
| 2 | Apart from this dubious distinction , Vulcano has also given its name to a type of eruption , the Vulcanian , very different from the Strombolian . |
| 3 | A Sir John Mohun fought in the Black Prince 's wing at Creçy and was a knight of the Garter , and the fourth Baron Mohun was killed in a duel in Hyde Park in 1712 , the family having in the meantime given its name to Hammoon in Dorset , Mohuns Ottery and Tormoham in Devon , and Grange Mohun in County Kildare . |
| 4 | The American opossum has given its name to death-feigning . |
| 5 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 6 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 7 | The wolf and even the skull ( reminding ing one of the skull which was said to have given its name to the Capitol ) are good Roman elements . |
| 8 | They comprised the Bullhouse corn mill , a fulling mill ( later a wire mill ) which had given its name to a new settlement at Millhouse Green , the Ecklands bridge paper mill ( later an umbrella works ) , the Plumpton cloth mill , the Thurlstone corn mill and another cloth mill which had been erected in 1740 as an oil mill for crushing rape and linseed . |
| 9 | Each leaf on the Lemande Tree , given its name after the Old English word for shining and glittering , will represent a donation towards the appeal to build a glass-walled community centre for the elderly and mentally ill within an old church in Morningside , Edinburgh . |
| 10 | However , it was given its name before many of today 's really aggressive species were introduced to the hobby , and it is not that violent a fish ! |
| 11 | Some have even given their name to conditions , such as ‘ Tennis ’ elbow and ‘ Golfers ’ elbow , both being pains on different sides of the elbow joint . |
| 12 | Dannii has already given her name to a range of clothes . |
| 13 | In one picture the 18-year-old , who has given her name as Danielle Sanchez , shows her mother and a group of hooded , witch-like women about to sacrifice animals . |
| 14 | In one picture the 18-year-old , who has given her name as Danielle Sanchez , shows her mother and a group of hooded , witch-like women about to sacrifice animals . |
| 15 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 16 | Henry Huntington , who would give his name to Huntington Beach , had built a railway from Los Angeles to Redondo . |
| 17 | Unless there is a real threat to personal safety , all those who deal directly with the public should wear a name badge and give their name on the telephone and in letters . |
| 18 | None of the foregoing says anything about the ‘ Silmarils ’ themselves , the jewels which give their name to The Silmarillion , and whose fate determines its plot . |
| 19 | THE story of St Winifred , who give her name to the holy well of Holywell , is given a new twist in the first programme in a new television series , Home Ground , to be screened by HTV weekly from next Tuesday . |
| 20 | Anyone in S5 or S6 interested in an ISCO Careers Course at Christmas should consult the booklet in the Library or the Careers Office and give his/her name to if interested in attending a course . |
| 21 | And would you also please make sure you give your name at the time you speak and who you represent because the the the matter is being recorded and we want to make sure we know who has said what at what time . |
| 22 | Erm if I just give your name to Liz she 'll , she 'll probably get in touch with your mum . |
| 23 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
| 24 | The Philistines , who via the Greek came to give their name to the land of Palestine , settled in the southern part of the coastal plain from , in contemporary terms , the Gaza Strip to Tel Aviv . |
| 25 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |
| 26 | They remained long enough to give their name to the region of Italy where they settled , and to create the marcher duchy of Friuli as a buffer zone against attacks on their kingdom by the occupiers of the Sava-Danube lowlands — the Slavs and their overlords , the Avars . |
| 27 | But the wounded party refused to give his name to police , ambulance and hospital authorities . |
| 28 | Thus he met Tally Jackson , who was to give his name to the book that Liebow finally wrote , Tally 's Corner : |
| 29 | One of the patients named in charge 3 , Ian Royan , said he had never authorised Dr Mumby to give his name to any journalist but was telephoned by Archie Mackay of the Sunday Mail and agreed to rendezvous with him at Dr Mumby 's next clinic . |
| 30 | In the western gable north Greek and Athenian heroes are guided in the fight against barbarism by another child of Zeus , god of light and healing and lord of the two other greatest inter-state sanctuaries , Delphi north of the gulf and the Ionian island Delos ; while on the east front Zeus himself supports the fortunes of Pelops who came from beyond the Aegean to give his name to the Peloponnese . |