Example sentences of "be the name given " in BNC.

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1 What are the names given to the following wheel configurations ?
2 At the highest level of society there were the names given to the great tenants-in-chief who held their estates directly of the Conqueror , and it must be remembered that if these magnates were already powerful in their own country they may even have brought locative bynames with them , as was the case of William de Moyon already mentioned .
3 Secret Agents is the name given to a Christ centred , bible based holiday club resource material from Scripture Union .
4 Ethiopian Mocha is the name given to the cultivated Harar coffees , which are gamey and ideal for drinking black after a meal .
5 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 .
6 This is the name given to rapid loss of the TL signal from that part of the glow curve normally thought to be stable .
7 Stigmaria is the name given to roots of the giant lycopod Lepidodendron ( this page ) .
8 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 .
9 The flare gybe is the name given to a faster version of the basic gybe .
10 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 ) .
11 A filename is the name given to such text to identify it to you and to Word .
12 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 .
13 ‘ Munchausen 's syndrome ’ is the name given to attention-seeking patients who feign illness or deliberately fabricate symptoms .
14 ‘ Nasals ’ , for example , is the name given to sounds which are made when the breath escapes through the nose .
15 He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’
16 Dance of the Romarias : Romaria is the name given to people travelling to church festivals , often many miles across the island .
17 In Wales , the ‘ derwyn corp ’ , is the name given to a large , ghostly bird which flies around a house where there is sickness , stopping only to tap loudly at a window if the patient is to die .
18 From the Latin limbus ( the edge ) , it is the name given to the region inhabited by those spirits who can go neither to Heaven because they are not baptised , nor to Hell because they have committed no great sin .
19 Descriptivism is the name given to the view that the way people actually use language should be accurately described , without prescription of how they ought to use it .
20 What is the name given to ‘ orange-peel ’ skin ?
21 AIDS ( Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ) is the name given to a series of cancers and infections which can occur as a late consequence of HIV ( Human Immunodeficiency Virus ) infection .
22 This is the name given to the logic of the research method that natural science is thought to employ .
23 Node is the name given to the swollen area of the stem at the base of each leaf created by the special cells which store carbohydrate energy elaborated during daylight by the green leaf .
24 It spurns modest restraint : Heisei is the name given to the reign of the current emperor , so Reform of Heisei means the reform of contemporary Japan .
25 ‘ Noddy ’ is the name given to a group of tropical terns whose plumage is like a negative of the more familiar shades of white body with a dark cap to the head .
26 EXPO is the name given to a new non-profit label , set up with the co-operation of Sonic Studios , Apex Duplication , Prontoprint , Virgin and HMV .
27 Communication is the name given to transport and travel facilities which enable people and goods to move from one place to another .
28 This is the name given to integrated computer hardware and software which allows for the easy production in the office of complex and elaborate documents and reports .
29 The ‘ activity ’ is the name given to the longest unit , it relates to the mode in which the teacher and children are working at a particular point in the lesson .
30 An ‘ episode ’ is the name given to the smallest complete unit of teaching — this could be the teacher 's revision of the previous lesson 's work ( revision episode ) or explaining a particular point to the class ( explanation episode ) or coaching an individual child on a problem he is working on ( coaching episode ) , etc .
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