Example sentences of "[is] the name " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intuition is the name of the game . |
| 2 | At one stage the scorer called out : ‘ What is the name of the grey-haired player ? ’ |
| 3 | What is amusing and significant about this latest reference to ‘ the roads of france ’ is the name of Talleyrand . |
| 4 | In the jargon of the trade , ‘ segmentation ’ is the name of the game . |
| 5 | A day or two later we were enlightened — Dagbladdet is the name of the daily paper . |
| 6 | Secret Agents is the name given to a Christ centred , bible based holiday club resource material from Scripture Union . |
| 7 | Denim is the name of the blue woven cloth first made in the French town of Nimes . |
| 8 | That it is sustained almost to the point of embarrassment is exactly what is so good about it , since discomfort is the name of this film 's particular game . |
| 9 | Ethiopian Mocha is the name given to the cultivated Harar coffees , which are gamey and ideal for drinking black after a meal . |
| 10 | is the name generally applied to rice of varying quality and sold as an all-purpose grain . |
| 11 | A credit crunch is the name economists give to a sudden reluctance among banks to lend money . |
| 12 | In his younger , more confident days he could quip that ‘ formalism is the name given to music not understood on first hearing ’ ; but by 1948 he was less resilient , and the situation more threatening . |
| 13 | This is the name given to rapid loss of the TL signal from that part of the glow curve normally thought to be stable . |
| 14 | Ours is the civilisation of instant gratification ; the word ‘ discipline ’ used to imply a commitment to some future achievement , and the willingness to make sacrifices for it : now , for many , it is the name of a sexual perversion . |
| 15 | SOUNDS LIKE BIRMINGHAM is the name of the year long festival marking the award . |
| 16 | Quality and value for money is the name of the game here ! |
| 17 | Now essentially this also relies on the children 's using their imaginations to find answers — as in the case of the ‘ sewer ’ and the ‘ Lost Valley ’ contexts — but the difference is that ( a ) each ‘ find ’ is given due weight and attention , is publicly shared , evaluated , accepted or rejected , ( b ) the focus within which their imaginations can have free range is defined from the beginning , i.e. the puzzle is clear — ‘ what could be a logical solution ? ’ is the name of the game , and ( c ) the problem-solving does not have to be hurried by action . |
| 18 | Stigmaria is the name given to roots of the giant lycopod Lepidodendron ( this page ) . |
| 19 | The first thing a refugee child learns is the name of his or her home village in Palestine . |
| 20 | After all they are just names in the same way that ‘ gravy ’ is the name for a brown fluid that is poured over meat . |
| 21 | 1 What is the name of the man replacing the maths teacher ? |
| 22 | 2 What is the name of the maths teacher ? |
| 23 | Nine Standards is the name given to a line of ancient piles of stones , nine in all , built into large cairns by forgotten men centuries ago and adding great distinction to a bleak moorland plateau . |
| 24 | The flare gybe is the name given to a faster version of the basic gybe . |
| 25 | What is the name of the canal to Sheffield ? |
| 26 | Combsburgh is the name of an ecclesiastical parish of great antiquity and a civil parish whose latest status was established by the local government legislation of 1972/4 . |
| 27 | When it is sitting in the medicine chest or pharmacy it is not Homoeopathic at all ; it is just a potentised remedy ( potentisation is the name given to the process of preparation of the remedies used ) . |
| 28 | A filename is the name given to such text to identify it to you and to Word . |
| 29 | Transactional analysis ( TA ) is the name given to a number of related concepts that seek to throw light on the way people behave and feel . |
| 30 | It is the name of a new strategy for regional development based on technology . |