Example sentences of "[pos pn] name to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | May if I changed my name to The Pierce Turner or Pierce And The Turners I might get played . |
| 2 | However , someone in Wilson 's office proceeded to leak my name to the press , which used it as an opportunity for jibes at him , particularly as he had contrived an impression that the negotiations had succeeded because of him . |
| 3 | ‘ But on the other hand I have no intention of letting you add my name to the list , just because you 've lent me this flat , ’ she lashed back . |
| 4 | The Philistines , who via the Greek came to give their name to the land of Palestine , settled in the southern part of the coastal plain from , in contemporary terms , the Gaza Strip to Tel Aviv . |
| 5 | Owen wondered whether the contras should change their name to the Revolutionary Contras or the New Revolutionaries ; perhaps they could change the name of the cause , too , to ‘ Revolutionary Counter-Communism ’ , and the leaders of it ( same old leaders ) could give a press conference in Philadelphia , in front of the Liberty Bell . |
| 6 | Although the Society of Gardeners gave their name to the Catalogus Plantarum ( Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs both Exotick and Domestic that are Hardy enough to Bear the Cold of our Climate in the Open Air and are Propagated for Sale in the Gardens near London ) 1730 , Philip Miller and Thomas Fairchild are thought to have been its chief promoters . |
| 7 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |
| 8 | Before long the Parachute Regiment had added their name to the backers . |
| 9 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |
| 10 | His attendants , the mythological fauns , were the patrons of wild animals and gave their name to the animal kingdoms in different countries — the fauna . |
| 11 | Pride Of The Cross , a band featuring ex-Pogue bassist Caitlin O'Riordain ( and her replacement Darryl ) , once performed The Clash 's ‘ Complete Control ’ as a protest against Pogue Mahone changing their name to The Pogues . |
| 12 | Also , there 's been Strawberry Switchblade , Strawberry Park , and The Strawberry Hill Boys , who eventually shortened their name to The Strawbs in order to become famous and sign Rick Wakeman . |
| 13 | Seven Sisters , artist Hans Unger : seven trees , which game their name to the locality |
| 14 | None of the foregoing says anything about the ‘ Silmarils ’ themselves , the jewels which give their name to The Silmarillion , and whose fate determines its plot . |
| 15 | There is even a fanciful tale that the young couple , Prince Gaythelus and Princess Scota , gave their name to the Gaels and Scots as they progressed through Europe to an eventual home in Ireland , taking the Stone of Destiny with them . |
| 16 | If , let us suppose , you were driving south from Mâcon or Bourg-en-Bresse ( I would stay chez La Mere Blanc at Vonnas ) you could drive through La-Tour-du-Pin , Saint-Rambert d'Albon , Beaurepaire d'Isère , Beaumont-les-Valence , La Garde-Adhémar , St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux — the three castles which gave their name to the Tricastin district — then down to Suze-La-Rousse and the tiny village of Donzère and its great nearby dam which is as wondrous and absorbing a spectacle in its way as any of the great Roman glories of this province through which , they claim , Hannibal marched with his Carthaginians — and presumably his elephants — two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years ago . |
| 17 | They remained long enough to give their name to the region of Italy where they settled , and to create the marcher duchy of Friuli as a buffer zone against attacks on their kingdom by the occupiers of the Sava-Danube lowlands — the Slavs and their overlords , the Avars . |
| 18 | The week Miles reviewed them for EVO they changed their name to the Pink Floyd . |
| 19 | The Liverpool SC team have now changed their name to the Likely Lads . |
| 20 | The calling continued for a few moments and then , with a cry of ‘ bitch ’ , to her horror , Nicky Scott Wilson began to make the most blood-curdling noise as he bayed her name to the night sky , like a wolf . |
| 21 | In 1988 Virginia Beardshaw of the Kings Fund , a charity promoting innovation in the NHS , and Edith Morgan , who had lent her name to the general hospital unit at Torquay , carried out a survey of the Torbay mental health services . |
| 22 | Sometimes it is worth thinking about getting a well known person in the field to write features for you or at least to suggest his or her name to the publication . |
| 23 | Did Johnson know Anaitis , sometimes called Anahita , to be the name of a Persian and pan-European goddess associated with water , in the way that Sequanna gave her name to the river Seine ? |
| 24 | ‘ The same gentleman ’ persuaded her not to put her name to the pamphlet for fear of the ‘ Malice ’ of men who ‘ greedily … suck in anything to the prejudice of A Woman ’ . |
| 25 | She gave her name to the elderly man on duty there , and he nodded . |
| 26 | THE story of St Winifred , who give her name to the holy well of Holywell , is given a new twist in the first programme in a new television series , Home Ground , to be screened by HTV weekly from next Tuesday . |
| 27 | A Tory headquarters spokesman denied they disclosed her name to the press , claiming they did not know it until they saw the Independent newspaper on Wednesday . |
| 28 | Veteran Chris Evert , who gave her name to the tournament , watched the first set of Austin 's match from the stands . |
| 29 | This is the daddy of all geysirs , the one that gave its name to the ( now better-known ) hot-water spouts elsewhere in the world . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |