Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] named " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Collins was born at Chopwell in County Durham but came south to find coalmining work in the small Kent coalfield and began playing football for the attractively named Canterbury Waverley , and it was from there that the Palace signed him , in spite of opposition from Arsenal , in late August 1934 . |
| 2 | A big coloured image , such as the aptly named Le Samourai , will now cost £25,000 . |
| 3 | At first the press were inclined to brand anything as the newly named ‘ Hooliganism ’ . |
| 4 | And living organisms themselves constantly change their environment , altering its chemical composition by eating , breathing , excreting ; altering its geography by building and destroying ( this relatively obvious concept has been raised to almost metaphysical status by James Lovelock and his devotees as the grandiosely named Gaia hypothesis ) . |
| 5 | There are sections on vegetarian and bean curd dishes , plus ways with poultry , pork , beef and lamb and sweets such as the intriguingly named ‘ lamb 's tail ’ . |
| 6 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 7 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 8 | A lesser rival is the Portlandian ( cum " Purbeckian " ) of England , to say nothing of the quaintly named Bononian and Bolonian of France . |
| 9 | There is the ‘ Crook Town Affair ’ of 1928 , when 350 amateurs were suspended for accepting excessive ‘ tea money ’ ; West Auckland 's ‘ World Cup ’ triumphs in Italy in 1909 and 1911 ; the origins of Brian Clough 's first club , Billingham Synthonia ( named after an agricultural fertiliser ! ) ; and the brief flowering of the wonderfully named Thornaby Utopians . |
| 10 | The cold-bloodedness of the quirkily named and unforgettable Pinkie remains chilling , and the ending is both climactic and everlastingly poignant : this one is a work of art . |
| 11 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |
| 12 | With a minimum of equipment the beginner can soon produce clouds of two of the aptly named Aristocrats class of butterflies : the small tortoiseshell and the peacock . |
| 13 | Even the proprietor of the aptly named Walworth Castle hotel in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency near Darlington has said : ’ Labour 's plan would be nothing short of disastrous . ’ |
| 14 | Delegates blocked the election of former ZSL Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Kazimierz Olesiak , as chairman of the newly named party , feeling he would have hindered the broader moves towards the reunification of the peasant movement , electing instead Jozef Zych . |
| 15 | One of the sites chosen was a particularly spectacular peak called Mullwharchar in the Galloway Hills of South Ayrshire , whose barren , windswept slopes rose to the south of the bleakly named Loch Doon . |
| 16 | Western scientists have no qualms about testing drugs on women of the so named ‘ third world ’ before they are deemed safe to use on their own women . |
| 17 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 18 | They are at their clearest in the teachings of the appropriately named free presbyterians : |
| 19 | Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took and taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully named Woolloomooloo Bay . |
| 20 | Directly opposite the evocatively named Santa Fe Railroad Depot , the Museum of Contemporary Art , San Diego , opens its new building on 2 February . |
| 21 | There are a similar number of natural products known today , most of which are called by trivial names , or as derivatives of a trivially named substance . |
| 22 | ( Yan Jiaqi and student dissident leader Wuer Kaixi had in early July released a videotaped statement in France announcing the formation of a differently named organization — see p. 36815 . ) |
| 23 | If Chris had n't been clutching a piece of leaf , would I have noticed a torn house plant ? some plants , like the aptly named deadly nightshade , do not reveal their effect until hours after ingestion , by which time it may be too late for effective treatment . |
| 24 | … and finally , we are again grateful to the Whitby Gazette , this time for an account of Whitby Nomads rugby match with the formidably named Red Rebel Rossendale . |
| 25 | The wars of the Fronde broke out and the Barberini went back to Rome where their theatre reopened with the significantly named Dal Male il Bene . |
| 26 | We wanted to cross the range between Lake Rotoiti and Lake Rotoroa , via the poetically named peaks Mount Robert and Mount Cedric . |
| 27 | There 's a great wooded area fairly close to the town — including the wonderfully named Tolpuddle Hollow and Puddletown Heath . |
| 28 | The ingredients are all there : an in-house bank ; a string of obscure firms ( including the appropriately named Croesus International ) based in loosely-regulated offshore financial centres ; and blocks of money winging electronically around the world . |
| 29 | We would stress that the Association exists for staff in Grades 7–10 , and has retained the title , Assistant Managers ‘ Association to differentiate from the similarly named Managers ‘ Association which covers staff in Grades 11 and above . |
| 30 | ‘ Thus we wind up this wonderful year , ’ wrote Horace Walpole on 30 November as the news of Quiberon arrived , the phrase heard on all lips and picked up that Christmas by David Garrick in the aptly named pantomime , Harlequin 's Invasion : |