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 | After Big Black parted company because they could do no more , Albini formed the evocatively-monikered Rapeman , named after a Japanese cartoon character . |
5 | Well , sort of , considering that it 's co-produced by a man named after a Blue Peter dog , Shep Pettibone . |
6 | 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 ’ ( ! ) . |
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 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | LEFT : The barge Apperley , named after a local village , with its novel loading/unloading system in action . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | We used to joke that she was named after a local cinema . |
20 | Chelsea , named after a Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning , will now become one of the most photographed children in the world . |
21 | Slightly more explosive are Strombolian eruptions , named after the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli , between Sicily and Italy . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 ? ) |
24 | Much later in European history that day was named after the Scandinavian goddess Freya . |
25 | Russian Turkomans are normally marketed as either Bokharas or Beshirs , depending on their design , and those made in Afghanistan are generally referred to as Afghans or Bokharas , although they may be named after the specific weaving village or tribe ( Kundous , Beshir , etc ) . |
26 | Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who , we agreed , must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities . |
27 | From the head of Haweswater ascend high Street , named after the Roman road that once ran along the ridge between Blea Water and Riggindale , on a well defined path . |
28 | Construction on Moriconium Quay , named after the Roman settlement of AD45 , will begin early this spring and the first properties will be ready in the summer of 1992 . |
29 | Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love . |
30 | When the Wallabies arrived at the ‘ Dan Qeqe ’ ground named after the inspired player , administrator and community leader who convinced Ford-USA to put money up front to finance it , and inspired the township youngsters to build it , they were met by an expectant crown of youngsters . |