Example sentences of "[pers pn] give the name " in BNC.

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1 The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm .
2 She gave the name of her father , who had recently retired with a substantial pension from a very senior appointment with a multi-national corporation .
3 Finally , we give the name abstract algebra to that generalisation of modern algebra in which the main object is the study of algebraic systems defined solely by postulates or axioms ( usually chosen not arbitrarily but with several concrete instances in mind ) , no particular meaning being attributed to the symbols being manipulated .
4 Instead they gave the name of the current dynasty — which at the time was the Ch'in .
5 These points are well illustrated in John Warton 's narration of his talk with a woman in the last stages of consumption , to whom he gives the name ‘ Mary Barton ’ .
6 Gramsci 's most original contribution to Marxism lies in his analysis of the ways in which the state transforms coercive force into a structured more consensual domination to which he gives the name ‘ hegemony ’ .
7 It was within his own mode of religious discourse that he was made aware of the need to travel in a certain spirit and to think and act in accordance with specific religious and ethical criteria to which he gave the name Truth .
8 When he found this was n't good enough for the police , the result of speaking the truth being the lesser of two evils , he gave the name of a woman he had visited .
9 You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly .
10 It gave the name of a contact point to follow up information , although some of us had reservations about whether it should have been the person who was actually quoted in the press release
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