Example sentences of "by the name " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ She goes by the name of Jilly Jonathan . |
| 3 | His secular school-work proceeded as well as that in Hebrew school ; particularly well in English literature where Leonard had an excellent and sympathetic teacher by the name of Waring , ‘ A fond , kindly man , ’ in Leonard 's phrase . |
| 4 | One in particular caught his attention : a blonde couple by the name of Jensen , Norwegians , who had sailed to the island on their 16 — foot boat along with their young son , Axel . |
| 5 | Up above Loch Morar is the craggy hill top by the name of Sgurr Bhuide . |
| 6 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 7 | On Sunday night at London 's Red Rose Cabaret , run by Ivor Dembina ( erstwhile member of Comic Abuse ) , a benefit going by the name of F**k was held for cabaret performance poet Joolz . |
| 8 | For most listeners today , it is true , concerts are attended , records purchased , orchestras identified by the name of the conductor . |
| 9 | In 1990 the Sunday Mirror and Sporting Life ran a competition to win a racehorse for a year ; the horse was a two-year-old colt by the name of ‘ Battle of Britain ’ . |
| 10 | In the words of one contemporary observer : ‘ these cheaters turned the cat in the pan , giving to diverse vile patching shift s an honest and godly title , calling it by the name of law … to the destruction of the good labouring people ’ ( Salgá0do , Cony-Catchers , 15 ) . |
| 11 | In order to ensure that the succession passed to the right Kikuyu clan , an organization by the name of GEMA ( Gikuyu , Embu and Meru Association ) was formed under the leadership of Njenga Karume : |
| 12 | This was a small operating system patch by the name of MacPuke , which made the innocuous little beige box belch in a particularly corpulent , beer-sodden way when the operating system decided to eject a floppy disc from the drive . |
| 13 | The only hint of rebellion seems to have been sparked by her first crush on a classmate known only by the name of Grant . |
| 14 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 15 | Apart from a particularly vicious-looking nose-job and alarming turquoise-coloured contact lenses , Rytasha is rather beautiful , and in the 1970s , when she went by the name of Ricki , she was a successful model ( she began life as Maxine Shenkman ) . |
| 16 | The first candidate was a well known preacher by the name of Mr. Lapthorn . |
| 17 | It was certainly he who employed , as a garden boy , one by the name of Joseph Paxton , and in clue course , they erected the three hundred feet long conservatory in the garden , and created the facing formal Italianate gardens . |
| 18 | The matron of Sick Bay , a formidable lady by the name of Mrs de Courcey-Meade , painted my wound ( unwashed ) with gentian violet , and I had to suffer the embarrassment of meeting my colleagues with a tattered and fluorescent leg . |
| 19 | Together with the main exporting company of Danish meat products , ESS-FOOD , DFDS TRANSPORT have established an international transport company by the name of DANISH FOOD TRANSPORT I/S , specializing in temperature controlled transport . |
| 20 | Considerable controversy was provoked by the government 's measure , still known by the name of its previous incarnation as ‘ Clause 28 ’ , in which it sought to ban the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities . |
| 21 | When Mack got that Livesey case , I was struck by the name of the cabby . |
| 22 | Occasionally such a massive infestation occurs in man , when it goes by the name of crusted or Norwegian scabies . |
| 23 | They had an English drummer by the name of Mike Joyce . |
| 24 | To cite a small example from my own research , anyone wishing to examine , say , the strange attempt at a revolution in Britain in January 1941 that went by the name of ‘ The People 's Convention ’ will have difficulty in the British Library . |
| 25 | In his time the year was usually indicated by the name of an official , for example at Athens the first archon and at Sparta the first ephor . |
| 26 | It 's a man by the name of Simon McAndrew , Elsie 's husband . ’ |
| 27 | He reportedly would sit for hours in a depressive silence , to be broken by a harangue on his pet hates , which included sherry drinkers and those by the name of Hambly . |
| 28 | So , an enterprising chap by the name of Len Middleton came up with an idea that would present the bait on fine , supple line ( the hair ) , and yet still have a strong hook attached to a strong , somewhat rigid line . |
| 29 | The name of the Birmingham Six may haunt the British legal system , but it can always gloat about one of its greatest triumphs , the case of a notorious bunch of Scottish footballers who go by the name of The Copenhagen Five . |
| 30 | In the creep-show of English international football the man most Scots loved to hate was a perm-headed striker who went by the name of Kevin Keegan . |