Example sentences of "with name like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny American villages might by now have read about Black October and stockbrokers jumping from windows , fortunes utterly lost , but the crash might n't mean all that much to them either , in northern American towns with names like Chateaugay , Champlain , Swanton , and Saddleback . |
| 2 | In recent years this older element seems to have become more prominent ; they are often smartly dressed and travel to games by car or on scheduled train services away from police surveillance , organized in gangs with names like the Inter-City Firm , the Main Line Service Crew , or the Anti-Personnel Firm . |
| 3 | There , with names like Reichensteiner , Huxelrube , Faber and Bacchus , we find grapes better suited to our growing conditions . |
| 4 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 5 | Did people with names like that automatically become solicitors ? |
| 6 | But you do n't feel as insulated from Egyptian life as were those within the plate glass of the big cruisers with names like Nile Smile , Flash and Lady Diana . |
| 7 | Even now his face lights up when he talks about minders with names like ‘ The Sulphate Strangler ’ . |
| 8 | Here Boyd promoted ‘ free-form art groups ’ with names like David Medella and the Exploding Galaxy . |
| 9 | Playa Del Ingles is also popular with the Irish , and not surprisingly there are a whole host of bars with names like The Shamrock , Molly Malones , and the Old Shilelagh . |
| 10 | The earliest video installations — associated with names like Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman — made extensive use of time-delay mechanisms , exploiting and altering the instant playback facility of the electronic medium . |
| 11 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 12 | Tarot is even more complex with 78 cards , 22 of which are decorated with highly-symbolic pictures with names like The Hanging Man , the Pope , the Devil , the Lovers , Judgement , and an untitled image of death . |
| 13 | It is a slightly adolescent , indulgent account of a love affair — adolescent because it is redolent of a wide-eyed naivety out of place in a middle-aged man : indulgent because at times he hints that the eagles , with names like Atalanta and Melanion , may be reciprocating his feelings . |
| 14 | Unlike the budget ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ series this is exclusively devoted to French repertoire and artists with names like d'Indy , Gounod , Fauré , Henry Rabaud , Debussy , Poulenc , Gabriel Pierné , Koechlin , and nearer our own time , Boulez and Messiaen . |
| 15 | They are often cheap-looking paperback books , usually in series with names like Sweet dreams , Teens , Couples , and Plus . |
| 16 | With names like Joe Satriani , Steve Vai , Paul Gilbert and jazzers Joe Pass and George Benson using your product , how can you go wrong ? |
| 17 | In the USA Will Yolen coined the term ‘ Dropniks ’ for paras with names like ‘ Fearless Fosdick ’ and ‘ One-jump Waldo ’ as made by AKA Executive Secretary and ‘ Kite Tales ’ founder , Bob Ingraham . |
| 18 | With names like ‘ Moon dance ’ , ‘ Black dragon ’ , ‘ Plain white delight ’ and ‘ Grand butterfly ’ , they provided a boisterous outlet for the conventioneers . |
| 19 | I am using a range of paints produced in Australia by Art Spectrum which includes colours with names like Tasman blue , Flinders blue violet , Australian leaf green and Pilbora red , designed for use in the southern hemisphere . |
| 20 | Belgo styles itself as a brewery eating hall , serving an extraordinary range of potent Belgian brews with names like Kwak and Delerium Tremens . |
| 21 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 22 | Now , 17 years later , the huge black men with names like Fatback are all on the dole while the rich white nightclubbers call it pop music and make fortunes with it . |
| 23 | Our road ended abruptly at a cluster of cottages with names like Moor Head and Little Gill . |
| 24 | Be sure , young , nimble competitors are even now planning to steal Microsoft 's thunder in one or more of them , just as upstart firms with names like Microsoft stole the thunder of the mighty IBM . |
| 25 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 26 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 27 | Eastbourne is filled with nursing homes in Victorian mansions with names like ‘ The Gables ’ . ’ |
| 28 | In her imagination , the little flat was suddenly peopled with the ghosts of tall , glamorous London women , with names like Wanda and Melissa , who knew when to tip porters and chambermaids and would n't have dreamt of unpacking their own shopping . |
| 29 | Many of them are held through trusts with names like Jupiter , Venus , and Mars , registered here at Morgan-Grenfell . |