Example sentences of "named after [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ? |
| 3 | Named after a person by the name of Guffbry it is initially used to diagnosed what ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The tournament favourites would appear to be White Hart Marauders — named after a pub in Hampshire — who field among their ranks three of the recently-named British Lions , England 's Jeremy Guscott and Dewi Morris and Wales 's Richard Webster . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was named after a village near Haverhill , Suffolk . |
| 9 | In 1980 the Italian Attiero Spinelli and other parliamentarians founded the ‘ Crocodile Club ’ ( named after a Luxembourg restaurant ) to draw up plans for institutional reform , and in 1981 Parliament established an Institutional Committee with Spinelli as a member . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her husband , the all-wise singer Arveyda ( named after a bar of soap ) has run off with his mother-in-law ( a terrific story , this , and well-told ) . |
| 14 | The " Torogoces " , a music group named after a bird renowned for the beauty of its song , perform in the Morazan controlled zone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The first ship , Murex , was named after a shell , a tradition which has persisted to the present . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One of the earliest Minoan pottery styles , dating to 2700 BC , was a type called Pirgos ware , named after a site on the coast to the north-east of Knossos . |
| 19 | Named after a volcano , Karrimor are clearly confident you should n't freeze while wearing this jacket . |
| 20 | Facing the Red Cross building to your right , is the vinárna or tavern called U Palcátu , named after a form of blunderbuss used by the Hussites . |
| 21 | We saw a lot of the Bakers , and did day trips ; one to the historic railway at Weka Pass ; another to Mt.Herbert , the highest point on Banks Peninsula ( wonderful views over Lyttleton Harbour ) and Pigeon Bay ; and several visits to local beaches at Sumner and Taylor 's Mistake ( a bay named after a captain who thought it was the entrance to Lyttleton Harbour ) . |
| 22 | Every year a Brackley sweetpea is named after a personality . |
| 23 | The route continues for a short way beside the beck , crossing it and turning right to head first slightly north-east and then north-west until a small beck is crossed , and then another by the Cortina Bridge — named after a Ford Cortina crashed here in one of the Lombard RAC rallies . |
| 24 | The path continues for around a mile to the Bloody Bush pillar — named after a dispute over where exactly the border ran . |
| 25 | Moving round the archways of Valencia 's bull-ring where , that night , Nirvana would give Spain its first in-the-flesh taste of what this nonsense was all about , it was almost a relief to greet Kurt Cobain once again , a paler , bleached-haired , bespectacled Kurt Cobain , but recognisably the same lovable scruff who late last year turned rock 'n' roll upside down with a song named after a deodorant . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Györ was a Hunnish settlement , as was Buda , the latter , according to legend , named after a brother of Attila . |
| 28 | light four-wheeled open two-horse carriage , named after a figure in Greek mythology , the son of Helios , the sun , who tried , disastrously , to drive his father 's chariot . |
| 29 | Harvey told me how each part of the computer was named after a section of the human brain : the Medulla , Pons and Midbrain . |
| 30 | And this is A. vulgaris ‘ Nora Barlow ’ , named after a descendant of Charles Darwin . |