Example sentences of "name give " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . ’ |
| 32 | This time , and during subsequent visits , she stayed at ‘ Greek House ’ ( as its English proprietress called it ) or ‘ Greek Home ’ ( the name given to it by her American partner ) . |
| 33 | Dance of the Romarias : Romaria is the name given to people travelling to church festivals , often many miles across the island . |
| 34 | Spooky Cott was the name given to a deserted cottage . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The name given to a demonic or maniacal GHOST of someone who had been evil during his lifetime . |
| 37 | The name given to a plaintive GHOST of a young man who haunts European rivers , playing his flute and desultorily throwing pebbles into still water . |
| 38 | The name given to an Icelandic shepherd who worked for a farmer named Thorwall . |
| 39 | Though most usually the name given to kindly domestic spirits , there are a few exceptions . |
| 40 | The name given by Kane O'Hara in his poem Midas , to a tiny little boy thought to have pixy blood : |
| 41 | The country name given to a large , sad-faced GHOST who haunts the Touraine area in France . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | BODICE : Name given to spare ribs when they were really spare and much cheaper . |
| 44 | IKE : Name given to General Eisenhower , husband of Tina Turner , the famous black female singer who was also a pigeon fancier at weekends . |
| 45 | THE JIVE : Name given to the mating habits of the family butcher at the ice rink . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | He then became a leader of the thakin group — thakin was the name given to a European , equivalent to sahib in India — and in 1940 fled from the country and was later joined by about thirty others . |
| 48 | What is the name given to ‘ orange-peel ’ skin ? |
| 49 | The modern mass media fit very well into communist notions of society as a collectivity , the name given to the ‘ masses ’ of workers and peasants whose interests are best served by a vanguard political party . |
| 50 | It was the name given to the rumoured private army which was reputed to have run dirty tricks campaigns for successive Interior ministers . |
| 51 | The parable may refer to the fact that in Jesus ' time the Zealots ( this was a name given to nationalists ) were stirring up the peasants to revolt against such landlords . |
| 52 | Aergo : The name given to Karrimor 's moulded backsystem designed to give good ventilation to the back area and distribute the load between the hips and shoulders , as in an adjustable system . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ Kalliste was the name given to this little lady before it became either Thera or Santorini , and a more singularly inapt name I can not imagine . |
| 55 | This was a two-seat reconnaissance fighter which adopted the name given to an earlier Fairey fighter , the single-seat Firefly biplane of the mid-1920s . |
| 56 | This is the name given to the logic of the research method that natural science is thought to employ . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | According to a CCETSW report , Sexuality , Young People and Care , the need for SSDs to develop ‘ positive contexts for training , policy and development ’ is essential in the light of HIV and heterosexism — the name given to oppressive attitudes which see heterosexuality as the most valid form of sexual expression . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | ‘ 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 . |