Example sentences of "name after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | And this is A. vulgaris ‘ Nora Barlow ’ , named after a descendant of Charles Darwin . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Significantly , although this train is named after a bard who loved the towns and villages of East Anglia , a thorough search of his complete oeuvre fails to come up with a single reference to Lowestoft . |
| 5 | Györ was a Hunnish settlement , as was Buda , the latter , according to legend , named after a brother of Attila . |
| 6 | The island is named after a daughter of King Bela IV who pledged to build a Dominican convent for her on the island if the Mongols could be defeated . |
| 7 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 8 | LEFT : The barge Apperley , named after a local village , with its novel loading/unloading system in action . |
| 9 | Facing the Red Cross building to your right , is the vinárna or tavern called U Palcátu , named after a form of blunderbuss used by the Hussites . |
| 10 | light four-wheeled open two-horse carriage , named after a figure in Greek mythology , the son of Helios , the sun , who tried , disastrously , to drive his father 's chariot . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | It is likely , though , that few Ayrshire folk will know that a prominent part of the city 's waterfront is named after a native of the county . |
| 13 | Le Ponant , named after a trade wind and a small group of islands off Brittany , is 88 metres of sheer grace and beauty , its three huge sailing masts making it a breathtaking sight . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The famous University of Nalanda — ‘ the place that confers the lotus ’ ( or spiritual knowledge ) — which flourished near Patna in the State of Bihar between the fifth and twelfth centuries , was named after a Naga King . |
| 17 | Historians say that Anerley Station was named after a villa owned by a Scots merchant and meaning ‘ Lonely ’ and the area is said to have been developed between 1853 and 1858 . |
| 18 | Chelsea , named after a Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning , will now become one of the most photographed children in the world . |
| 19 | In their latest letters , the group , named after a 14th century rebel prince , threaten : ‘ We must cut the cancer of the Englishmen out . ’ |
| 20 | Named after a volcano , Karrimor are clearly confident you should n't freeze while wearing this jacket . |
| 21 | Moving round the archways of Valencia 's bull-ring where , that night , Nirvana would give Spain its first in-the-flesh taste of what this nonsense was all about , it was almost a relief to greet Kurt Cobain once again , a paler , bleached-haired , bespectacled Kurt Cobain , but recognisably the same lovable scruff who late last year turned rock 'n' roll upside down with a song named after a deodorant . |
| 22 | Named after a famous comic superhero , the band were threatened with legal action by Marvel Comics , who owned the copyright . |
| 23 | The path continues for around a mile to the Bloody Bush pillar — named after a dispute over where exactly the border ran . |
| 24 | The route continues for a short way beside the beck , crossing it and turning right to head first slightly north-east and then north-west until a small beck is crossed , and then another by the Cortina Bridge — named after a Ford Cortina crashed here in one of the Lombard RAC rallies . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After Big Black parted company because they could do no more , Albini formed the evocatively-monikered Rapeman , named after a Japanese cartoon character . |
| 27 | Who would have thought that a band named after a tennis player would turn out to be one of the best new things of the autumn ? |
| 28 | Well , sort of , considering that it 's co-produced by a man named after a Blue Peter dog , Shep Pettibone . |
| 29 | One of the earliest Minoan pottery styles , dating to 2700 BC , was a type called Pirgos ware , named after a site on the coast to the north-east of Knossos . |
| 30 | 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 . |