Example sentences of "the name " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 2 | for one thing , the group did not choose the name , which came from a reviewer 's description of a painting by Monet . |
| 3 | Further , the name was partly kept alive by dealing , primarily by the man most heavily committed , Durand-Ruel . |
| 4 | It may also give a misleading impression : for example , the work of German Expressionist painters under the banner of the name Die Brücke , Kirchner , Nolde and Pechstein was affected by their practice as print-makers , where some motifs and treatment originated . |
| 5 | Salim can be designated a Kenya Asian : the name we give to those hard-working aliens who have been driven out of African countries , and who include the shopkeepers and merchants expropriated in Uganda by Amin . |
| 6 | The family slave boy , Metty ( the name means half-caste ) , who had come to live with him , is firmly left behind . |
| 7 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 8 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 9 | In calling his recent book about his own early life by the name of The Facts , Philip Roth is issuing a challenge — expecting his readers to know that there are no bare facts , and obliging them to think hard about what happens in the recounting of the facts of a life . |
| 10 | In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity … |
| 11 | Two years previously , a campaign to write into the Irish constitution the existing legislation criminalizing abortion had got under way under the name of the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign . |
| 12 | Although the invoicing system is long redundant , the use of the shilling in the name of a beer does give a useful indication of its strength . |
| 13 | From two of its existing operations — Software Sciences , which produces the CHAMPS hotel management system and Datasolve , which manages other companies ' data facilities — the new company has taken the name Data Sciences . |
| 14 | Buckley 's the name . |
| 15 | ‘ She goes by the name of Jilly Jonathan . |
| 16 | ‘ Capri , old girl , ’ Lord Woodleigh said , giving the name its Italian rather than its popular song emphasis . |
| 17 | APPENDIX I — THE NAME ‘ POIROT ’ |
| 18 | The much-bruited suggestion that Agatha Christie selected the name Poirot randomly is patently ridiculous . |
| 19 | Apart from its assonantic association with the heavily symbolic ‘ parrot ’ ( discussed more fully above in reference to Skelton 's Speke , Parot ) , the name also reverberates with nuances from the French language . |
| 20 | Though ‘ poireau ’ , the French word closest in sound to the name Christie chose , with its double meanings of ‘ leek ’ and ‘ wart ’ , appears to have no obvious connection with the detective , the word ‘ poirier ’ , meaning a ‘ pear-tree ’ offers a much more fruitful area for investigation . |
| 21 | APPENDIX II — THE NAME ‘ HASTINGS ’ |
| 22 | The name of Poirot 's occasional assistant is no less carefully chosen than that of Agatha Christie 's main protagonist . |
| 23 | Under ‘ Bernini ’ was the name Professor Charles Howard , who was and still is the school 's Director . |
| 24 | Survival was the name of the game and I was managing to do just that . |
| 25 | The judges sifted through over 8,000 entries and finally picked the name ‘ Spring Ovation ’ as the winner . |
| 26 | Its rough , hairy , much-branched stems rise to 2ft and will reward you in late summer and early autumn with numerous vivid yellow daisies with blackish central cones , well earning this plant the name black-eyed Susan . |
| 27 | Having looked unsuccessfully for such a bird house , I would like to find the name of a stockist . |
| 28 | I would be so grateful if you could tell me the name of it , because it looks so unusual . |
| 29 | Could you tell me the name of the maple that has interesting white-striped branches and trunk , and where I might be able to purchase one ? |
| 30 | To find out how to contact an organisation in your area contact your local health education unit in the phone book under the name of your local health authority . |