Example sentences of "change [pron] name [prep] 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 | This Society , which later changed its name to the Ecclesiological Society , sought to make churches more worthy settings for worship and for the liturgy of the Church of England . |
| 3 | It was in September 1908 that the club moved to rented premises in Store Street and changed its name to the National Deaf Club and opened its membership to deaf people of whatever school , not just oralist . |
| 4 | The move brought the Midland to the capital for the first time , and the bank changed its name to the London and Midland Bank . |
| 5 | The companies involved are all foreign : at Ballymoney the Australian Meekatharra Minerals Ltd ; at Loughbeg , Anglo United Development Corporation , an associate of Northgate of Canada and Grenmore Holdings Ltd ( a British company which later changed its name to the more local-sounding Tyrone Lignite Ltd ) ; in the Coagh and Washing bay areas BP Coal Ltd , a subsidiary of the giant BP oil company . |
| 6 | In 1910 it moved from Mombasa to Nairobi , changed its name to the East African Standard and became a daily . |
| 7 | The first European Formula 3000 Championship was staged in 1985 and changed its name to the F.I.A . |
| 8 | In the same year the N A L R W U changed its name to the National Union of Agricultural Workers ( NUAW ) . |
| 9 | It drifted the globe for just over two years looking for a port to discharge the ash , and even changed its name to the Pelicano in an attempt to escape detection . |
| 10 | The ZSL — challenged by the emergence of the PSL and the PSL-S , and faced with the expression of mass support by its membership for the PSL — had brought forward its 11th extraordinary congress to Nov. 26-27 , 1989 , when it changed its name to the PSL-Rebirth ( PSL — Odrodzenie ) . |
| 11 | The Workers ' Party conference had also confirmed the continued existence of the Official Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , which ceased its campaign in Northern Ireland in 1972 , at which time its political wing , Official Sinn Féin , changed its name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 12 | The group changed its name to The Beautiful Losers and won Melody Maker 's best newcomers of 1975 award ( but nobody noticed ) . |
| 13 | The week Miles reviewed them for EVO they changed their name to the Pink Floyd . |
| 14 | Next year the Nabisco Masters doubles changes its name to the ATP doubles finals . |
| 15 | Next year the Nabisco Masters doubles changes its name to the ATP doubles finals . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the final phase of our advanced courses development programme , the Diploma in Public Administration will change its name to the Diploma in Public Services Management . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance ( DTA , Dirk Mudge , pres. ; Mishake Muyongo , vice-pres. ; the majority political formation in the previous South African-appointed transitional government , and since independence the main opposition party , with 21 Assembly seats ) ; the United Democratic Front ( UDF , Justus Garoeb , l. ) ; the right-wing Action Christian National ( ACN , led until Janni de Wet until May 1990 , and since then by Kosie Pretorius , whose National Party of South West Africa , part of the ACN , decided in August to change its name to the National Party , NP , and to admit non-whites into its ranks ) ; the Namibia Patriotic Front ( NPF Moses Katjiuongua , l. ) ; the Federal Convention of Namibia ( FCN , J.G.A. Diergaardt , l. ) ; the Namibia National Front ( NNF , V. Rukoro , l . ) . |
| 21 | The Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , founded in 1922 , decided to change its name to the Popular Socialist Party ( PSP ) at its 10th congress held in January . |
| 22 | Keith Joseph , for example , will be remembered at least partly for his violent hostility to the social sciences , even causing the then Social Science Research Council to change its name in the early l950s to the misleading Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 23 | On March 1 the Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , after 23 years of clandestine struggle , became the second major guerrilla group to lay down arms and enter political life as a party , formally changing its name to the Hope , Peace and Liberty party ( with the same Spanish acronym , EPL ) . |
| 24 | The following tale was recalled by a retired plate-layer ganger who , as expected , has asked me to change his name for the purpose of this story . |
| 25 | Apart from incurring onerous legal fees , we may wish to change our name with the resultant costs of redesigning and reprinting stationery followed by the marketing of our new title . |
| 26 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 27 | As a result , rebel sources said that RAM had changed its name to the Nationalist Revolutionary Alliance and evolved into a more civilian-military association . |
| 28 | The group had changed its name to the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Movement ( MPMR ) on May 31 in order to facilitate a transition to mainstream politics . |
| 29 | During the course of the congress it became evident that the KPRP had changed its name to the Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 30 | The Bulgarian Green Party , which played a major role in the movement leading to the overthrow of communism , has changed its name to the Conservative Environmental Party . |