Example sentences of "[verb] its name to [art] [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 | They comprised the Bullhouse corn mill , a fulling mill ( later a wire mill ) which had given its name to a new settlement at Millhouse Green , the Ecklands bridge paper mill ( later an umbrella works ) , the Plumpton cloth mill , the Thurlstone corn mill and another cloth mill which had been erected in 1740 as an oil mill for crushing rape and linseed . |
| 7 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 8 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 9 | Murten has considerable significance in Swiss history , as it gave its name to a critical battle fought close by in 1476 . |
| 10 | Another , more austerely intellectual , centre was Elea , which gave its name to the Eleatic school whose most famous representatives ( Zeno , who is not the same Zeno as the fourth-century founder of Stoicism ; and Parmenides ) addressed themselves to philosophical problems of being and identity . |
| 11 | Nicolas Poussin 's ‘ A dance to the music of time ’ ( 1639–40 ) which gave its name to the famous series of novels by Anthony Powell , was recently returned to its place in the Great Gallery following restoration by Herbert Lank , Simon Bobak and Nonie Tasker . |
| 12 | From Brunnen it is only 5km ( 3 miles ) distance to Schwyz the cantonal capital which gave its name to the whole country with only a slight change of vowel . |
| 13 | Called the Public Expenditure Survey , it gave its name to the whole process PES . |
| 14 | Sand-le-Mere now gives its name to a large caravan site which is nearby . |
| 15 | Fyllo in Greek means ‘ leaf ’ which is why it gives its name to the wafer-thin filo pastry that is used in the preparation of Middle Eastern pastries . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance ( DTA , Dirk Mudge , pres. ; Mishake Muyongo , vice-pres. ; the majority political formation in the previous South African-appointed transitional government , and since independence the main opposition party , with 21 Assembly seats ) ; the United Democratic Front ( UDF , Justus Garoeb , l. ) ; the right-wing Action Christian National ( ACN , led until Janni de Wet until May 1990 , and since then by Kosie Pretorius , whose National Party of South West Africa , part of the ACN , decided in August to change its name to the National Party , NP , and to admit non-whites into its ranks ) ; the Namibia Patriotic Front ( NPF Moses Katjiuongua , l. ) ; the Federal Convention of Namibia ( FCN , J.G.A. Diergaardt , l. ) ; the Namibia National Front ( NNF , V. Rukoro , l . ) . |
| 18 | The Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , founded in 1922 , decided to change its name to the Popular Socialist Party ( PSP ) at its 10th congress held in January . |
| 19 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 20 | The Bulgarian Green Party , which played a major role in the movement leading to the overthrow of communism , has changed its name to the Conservative Environmental Party . |
| 21 | During the course of the congress it became evident that the KPRP had changed its name to the Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |