Example sentences of "named after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 2 | She had played a lot of Shaw including Candida ; and created Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House , named after her by Shaw . |
| 3 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 4 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 5 | It is one of three seedlings of a hybrid raised in Switzerland around 1920 and consequently named after Swiss mountains . |
| 6 | He used all the steps in the classical vocabulary named after Harlequin 's early ability as dancer-acrobat to change himself into an animal . |
| 7 | He was speaking in the Punch Tavern , the only pub to have a national magazine named after it . |
| 8 | When Sinitta was with David Essex , her Mutiny on The Bounty costar , he presented her with Fletch , a Cairn Terrier named after Fletcher Christian , the character he played in the show . |
| 9 | Indeed the telegraph was the sole reason for the existence of this huddle of buildings named after the wife of the cable station 's chief engineer . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Most crucially , it would have the right to issue an Estonian currency , probably named after the kron which served during the 20 years of independence between the wars . |
| 12 | There is the ‘ Crook Town Affair ’ of 1928 , when 350 amateurs were suspended for accepting excessive ‘ tea money ’ ; West Auckland 's ‘ World Cup ’ triumphs in Italy in 1909 and 1911 ; the origins of Brian Clough 's first club , Billingham Synthonia ( named after an agricultural fertiliser ! ) ; and the brief flowering of the wonderfully named Thornaby Utopians . |
| 13 | England won comfortably enough , as indeed they ought to have done against a team containing 10 players whose ages ranged between 16 and 21 , and one - Madan Lal — who lays claim to being 38 , despite the strong suspicion that ( were he as famous as Nehru ) the Centenary Trophy could just as easily have been named after him . |
| 14 | Pembrokeshire — Penfro in Welsh — translates as ‘ Land 's End ’ and today lies within the new county of Dyfed , named after the ancient Welsh kingdom . |
| 15 | Richard Peck House was named after Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck , President of the Association from 1949–1952 . |
| 16 | Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who , we agreed , must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities . |
| 17 | Nicholas Luard of the John Muir Trust ( husband of our cookery writer Elisabeth Luard ) has joined forces with local people to form the Bara Ceirch Conservation Group , named after the farm on which the conifer plantation is sited . |
| 18 | And this is A. vulgaris ‘ Nora Barlow ’ , named after a descendant of Charles Darwin . |
| 19 | Named after the fountain that originally stood in the hospital garden , where children threw coins to wish for good health , the Wishing Well Appeal became one of the most successful fund-raising campaigns ever conducted . |
| 20 | The resulting Palache Report , named after its chairman and published by the CFC in 1944 , articulated Balcon 's concern that the British cinema was becoming a ‘ channel for disseminating the ideas and aspirations , no matter how worthy in themselves , of one or two dominating personalities in this country , ’ and backed his view that the British industry should concentrate on a regular output of low-budget , authentically British films . |
| 21 | As five was also her lucky number , the perfume was named after it . |
| 22 | Over it all , in nine parts named after colours Mikkelborg associates with Davis , the trumpet curls , wriggles , and lashes out . |
| 23 | Streets are being named after it . |
| 24 | Corporal Paul Moreton , 28 , of Nuneaton , and Trooper Denis Brownhill , 20 , of Birmingham were named after relatives had been located . |
| 25 | The three crews , all named after former Grand National winners , made their first attempt at the unsocial hour of eight in the morning . |
| 26 | The freshmen , on Middlesex , were named after Foinavon , the 100-1 outsider that came through to win the National after most of the runners had fallen . |
| 27 | Sofia 's International Peace Foundation , named after Mr Zhivkov 's late daughter , is being investigated following allegations by a central committee member that it was used to send convertible currency abroad for the family 's use . |
| 28 | A number of race horses have been named after dancers . |
| 29 | It is named after the book by Stoppani , whose portrait is imposed over a map of Italy on the foil packaging . |
| 30 | It is named after the Tabasco region of Mexico where the peppers used in its production are grown . |