Example sentences of "name from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated . |
| 2 | The barbel takes his name from the four long whisker-like barbules that hang from his snout . |
| 3 | Derives its name from the central Persian village where it evolved over 200 years ago , and is a more delicate and sensuous variation of the mina-khani composition . |
| 4 | It voted by 137 votes to two , with 14 abstentions , to change the republic 's name from the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ) to The Russian Federation ( Russia ) . |
| 5 | This line reached a crossing of the Mid Wales Line , of the Cambrian Railway , at Builth Road in April 1867 , then known as Llechryd but taking its name from the high level station which still survives . |
| 6 | At the first national delegate conference of the Social Democratic Party on Jan. 12-14 delegates agreed to change the party 's name from the Social Democratic Party of the GDR ( Sozialdemokratische Partei der DDR — SDP ) to the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands — SPD ) . |
| 7 | Now er we we already had a license for an earlier version of EARS which in er in fact was in Aled 's name from the last general election but one . |
| 8 | The village had been recorded in Domesday Book and had taken its name from the Old Danish personal name Thurulf and the earlier Anglo-Saxon suffix tun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was reported controversy at a meeting of the SI council on Nov. 23-24 in Geneva , Switzerland , over proposals , principally from the West German and Austrian socialist parties , that the SI establish formal links with ruling " ex-communist parties " in Eastern Europe , especially with the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP — which had changed its name from the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) in October — see p. 36960 ) . |