Example sentences of "its name " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brewed by Courage , its name stems from the fact that it was once exported to Russia where it was so popular with the Czarist court that it was brewed under licence in Estonia until the 1917 revolution . |
| 2 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 3 | Lobster thermidor does not take its name from the hotness of the sauce , but from a month of the French revolutionary calendar . |
| 4 | The plants you spotted are Cleome spinosa , the spider flower , and you 're quite right , there are thorns under the leaves , as its name implies . |
| 5 | But Leonard himself was smitten , he says , by his family 's past , by its name and meaning . |
| 6 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 7 | The university authorities liked it , and readily consented to the use of its name . |
| 8 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 9 | At this point the difficulties gradually increase , culminating on the upper wall above the giant , whale-shaped niche which gives the route its name . |
| 10 | THE FERRANTI family has demanded senior management changes at the troubled electronics company bearing its name . |
| 11 | Mr Howell said : ‘ The council has accepted the deals carried out in its name were unlawful . ’ |
| 12 | THIS is the architecture that dare not speak its name . |
| 13 | In a shining example , the rugby union club at the Coningsby base in Lincolnshire agreed to accept league devotees and change its name to Coningsby rugby club . |
| 14 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 15 | This desire that can not find its name ( though it would dare speak it , if it could ) is pleasurable . |
| 16 | Its name comes from the cormorants ' nests which in the past were ranged in rows along shelves in the wet black rock , like jars in a chemist 's shop . |
| 17 | But Rock Santeiro , which takes its name from a steamy Brazilian TV soap opera that delighted viewers throughout Portugal 's former African colonies , sits on a rubbish dump on the northern edge of Luanda , the capital of Angola . |
| 18 | With its 14,000 workers , Dagenham may still be the company 's biggest centre of employment in the UK , it may have produced more than 10 million vehicles in the last 60 years and its name may be inseparable from Ford of Britain . |
| 19 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 20 | The original Know Nothing party arose in the 1860s ( its name refers to the fact that it was a secret party and its members , if interrogated , said they knew nothing about it ) . |
| 21 | Its name come from a Gaelic word Lagh which meant Law — Mountain of Lawgiving . |
| 22 | Of course there was still love , there was healthy , growing love and its name was called Work . |
| 23 | This is the daddy of all geysirs , the one that gave its name to the ( now better-known ) hot-water spouts elsewhere in the world . |
| 24 | It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard . |
| 25 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 26 | The house took its name — The Kilns — from the two old brick kilns which stood by its side . |
| 27 | Erinaceus europaeus — the common hedgehog to you and me — is , as its name suggests , both common and hog-like in its habits ; although in some areas its numbers have been drastically reduced by road accidents and agricultural practices . |
| 28 | In possibly its shortest annual general meeting on record — a mere 26 minutes — the British Hotels , Restaurants & Caterers Association ( BHRCA ) last week voted to change its name to the British Hospitality Association ( BHA ) . |
| 29 | Tricon believes the restaurant suffers from its name , Chez Maw . |
| 30 | As I am sure you have heard , Ruanda Mission has changed its name to Mid-Africa Ministry ( CMS ) and is entering a new phase of development . |