Example sentences of "[verb] its name [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Society , which later changed its name to the Ecclesiological Society , sought to make churches more worthy settings for worship and for the liturgy of the Church of England . |
| 2 | It was in September 1908 that the club moved to rented premises in Store Street and changed its name to the National Deaf Club and opened its membership to deaf people of whatever school , not just oralist . |
| 3 | In the same year the N A L R W U changed its name to the National Union of Agricultural Workers ( NUAW ) . |
| 4 | The group changed its name to The Beautiful Losers and won Melody Maker 's best newcomers of 1975 award ( but nobody noticed ) . |
| 5 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 6 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 7 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 8 | Each leaf on the Lemande Tree , given its name after the Old English word for shining and glittering , will represent a donation towards the appeal to build a glass-walled community centre for the elderly and mentally ill within an old church in Morningside , Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 10 | The bid , made in partnership with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR ) , the group that made its name in the leveraged buy-out binge of the 1980s , enhances the deal-making reputation of Fleet/Norstar 's chairman , Terrence Murray . |
| 11 | Legend has it that the bridge got its name from the plaintive cries of the prisoners as they were escorted across it . |
| 12 | It is no surprise to learn that this village got its name from the local industries of smelting silver and iron . |
| 13 | From the Mediterranean coastlands , it obtained its name from the Latin ros and maris , dew of the sea , and has had associations with the mind and improving the memory since classical times ; witness the famous quotation in Hamlet , of poor Ophelia : " There 's rosemary , that 's for remembrance " . |
| 14 | The church gets its name from the adjacent hospice where pilgrims on their way to or from Rome once stayed . |
| 15 | This elongated , rocky finger , which gets its name from the ancient word for dragon , is said to resemble the creature at rest . |
| 16 | With this in mind , the Zipper Club , which gets its name from the distinctive scar left after surgery , aims to help people before , as well as during and after treatment . |
| 17 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 18 | It gets its name from the Silurian Epoch — a period around 450 million years ago when the rocks which make up the skeleton and the soil of the Grizedale Forest were formed . |
| 19 | The fish gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 20 | The Vampire Plec gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 21 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 22 | It 's a common condition which gets its name from the carpal bones that form a circle at the wrist . |
| 23 | The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated . |
| 24 | The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . ) |
| 25 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 26 | Butts Lane takes its name from the medieval archers who practised their skills close by . |
| 27 | The Lakeside new station takes its name from the nearby lake , where a by-pass road scheme is under construction . |
| 28 | The Old Forge Mews development in Arundel , Sussex takes its name from the old Grade 11 listed forge building on the original site . |
| 29 | Takes its name from the Persian word for crab , but is probably based on either a floral or animal form . |
| 30 | The Wilder Kaiser is very comfortable gasthof , which takes its name from the magnificent mountain range that rises behind Scheffau . |