Example sentences of "named after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Named after a famous comic superhero , the band were threatened with legal action by Marvel Comics , who owned the copyright . |
| 2 | Named after a famous place that burned down . ’ |
| 3 | No prizes either for guessing his four-legged friend is named after a famous Liverpool manager . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | After Big Black parted company because they could do no more , Albini formed the evocatively-monikered Rapeman , named after a Japanese cartoon character . |
| 6 | Well , sort of , considering that it 's co-produced by a man named after a Blue Peter dog , Shep Pettibone . |
| 7 | Latest offering to appear from the rapidly expanding Camden ‘ lurch ’ subculture , so named after a divvy dance , although it does n't quite live up the press release 's boast of being ‘ the last noise that will cause heavens to crack and earth to rip asunder ’ ( ! ) . |
| 8 | Latest offering to appear from the rapidly expanding Camden ‘ lurch ’ subculture , so named after a divvy dance , although it does n't quite live up the press release 's boast of being ‘ the last noise that will cause heavens to crack and earth to rip asunder ’ ( ! ) . |
| 9 | Frankie had nothing much more to offer till they signed to Zang Tumb Tuum ( ZTT ) the label ( named after a First World War futurist magazine ) formed by New Musical Express ( NME ) theorist , Paul Morley , and Dollar/ABC/Malcolm McLaren producer , Trevor Horn . |
| 10 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The village is thought to have been named after a Roman officer , Amboniacus , at the time when the Emperor Probus ordered the replanting of vineyards throughout Gaul . |
| 13 | The Wright amendment , named after a former speaker of the House , Jim Wright , permits flights leaving Dallas 's Love Field to fly only to cities in Texas and four neighbouring states . |
| 14 | The repository will be located at Sighthill and named after a former 19th century deputy clerk register Thomas Thomson . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Madeleine Newton Fund for Alternative Cancer Research and Treatment is named after a primary school teacher who died of breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 32 . |
| 17 | Five-track EP from unknown quantity , named after a radioactive isotope found in your dinner and extra-thick industrial milkshake thanks to the wonders of nuclear power , the government 's equivalent of a big hard-on . |
| 18 | By international agreement , all pieces of a given shower are catalogued as a single meteorite and named after a nearby geographical feature ( it can be a town , a post office or prominent natural feature ) . |
| 19 | Discussions are ongoing with a famous commercial radio station ( named after a nearby river ) whose identify I am not at liberty to reveal at present . |
| 20 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 21 | In their latest letters , the group , named after a 14th century rebel prince , threaten : ‘ We must cut the cancer of the Englishmen out . ’ |
| 22 | LEFT : The barge Apperley , named after a local village , with its novel loading/unloading system in action . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We used to joke that she was named after a local cinema . |
| 25 | Chelsea , named after a Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning , will now become one of the most photographed children in the world . |
| 26 | Slightly more explosive are Strombolian eruptions , named after the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli , between Sicily and Italy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was a founding member of the John Birch Society , an ultra-right group named after the first US soldier to be killed in the Korean War . |
| 29 | Where , I have often wondered since , are South Atlantic ships or hills or plains named after the other three Punjab rivers — the Indus , the Chenab and the Ravi ? ) |
| 30 | Much later in European history that day was named after the Scandinavian goddess Freya . |