Example sentences of "[Wh det] give [pos pn] name " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The name Fleet was an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘ tidal inlet ’ and the principle sources of the water flowing into the River Fleet , were the heights of Hampstead Heath , also the grounds of Kenwood House at Highgate , all joining just north of Camden Town , and flowing south to join the River Thames , close to the Blackfriars monastery which gave its name to the bridge over the Thames at that point . |
| 4 | Eight miles [ 13 km ] short of their destination they had to cross a narrow , single-arch bridge over the River Spean , which gave its name , High Bridge , to the locality . |
| 5 | Nicolas Poussin 's ‘ A dance to the music of time ’ ( 1639–40 ) which gave its name to the famous series of novels by Anthony Powell , was recently returned to its place in the Great Gallery following restoration by Herbert Lank , Simon Bobak and Nonie Tasker . |
| 6 | The unique marble hall , which gave its name to the palace , was screened with boards that served as exhibition stands for the photographs , diagrams and models . |
| 7 | Another , more austerely intellectual , centre was Elea , which gave its name to the Eleatic school whose most famous representatives ( Zeno , who is not the same Zeno as the fourth-century founder of Stoicism ; and Parmenides ) addressed themselves to philosophical problems of being and identity . |
| 8 | From Brunnen it is only 5km ( 3 miles ) distance to Schwyz the cantonal capital which gave its name to the whole country with only a slight change of vowel . |
| 9 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 10 | The drawback to Dreadnought , which gave her name to a whole era of warships , was her cost — I , 783,883 . |
| 11 | It shows the artist as Harlequin , drinking in the Paris bar which gives its name to the picture . |
| 12 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 13 | At the junction of the Pilgrims Road where one way leads to Birling and the other branches off into the woods there stands the remains of the old Free Chapel of St. Lawrence , which gives its name to the lane running by . |
| 14 | Marking European Heritage Days on Saturday and Sunday , the abbey , which gives its name to Grey Abbey , is throwing its doors open to visitors . |