Example sentences of "[art] [adv] named " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its enthusiasm for acronyms , the exchange has taken the ‘ Taurus ’ title for its computerised settlement masterplan from the full title of the scheme , the ponderously named Transfer and Automated Registration of Uncertificated Stock system . |
| 2 | At once Colby makes plans to become an organist in a small church in the strikingly named district of " Joshua Park " outside London . |
| 3 | We visit the timeless villages of Meganisi , stop to picnic on the prosaically named ‘ beach north ’ or ‘ beach south ’ , orbit Skorpios ( gawping at Onassis ' green lawns ) , or anchor off brilliant white beaches on the Greek mainland . |
| 4 | And living organisms themselves constantly change their environment , altering its chemical composition by eating , breathing , excreting ; altering its geography by building and destroying ( this relatively obvious concept has been raised to almost metaphysical status by James Lovelock and his devotees as the grandiosely named Gaia hypothesis ) . |
| 5 | Western scientists have no qualms about testing drugs on women of the so named ‘ third world ’ before they are deemed safe to use on their own women . |
| 6 | Another important title is the prematurely named ‘ Modern Jazz Quartet ’ ( Savoy ) , by the Milt Jackson Quartet : Jackson ( vibraphone ) , John Lewis ( piano ) , Ray Brown or Percy Heath ( alternating on bass ) and Kenny Clarke or Al Johns ( ditto on drums ) . |
| 7 | Moving up to Pikes Crag , another pinnacle , known as Buckbarrow Needle , has a fine E1 5b up its front face — the obviously named Needle Front . |
| 8 | Detailed study of the effects of the use of battlefield nuclear weapons ( notably in the starkly named Nato exercise Carte Blanche of June 1955 which resulted in huge civilian " casualties " ) brought no practical change to allied strategy . |
| 9 | We wanted to cross the range between Lake Rotoiti and Lake Rotoroa , via the poetically named peaks Mount Robert and Mount Cedric . |
| 10 | A big coloured image , such as the aptly named Le Samourai , will now cost £25,000 . |
| 11 | And the divide between the Catholic and Anglican churches was bridged — at least for investment purposes when the insurance arms of the two churches set up a joint venture , Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management , headed by the aptly named Kevin Cannon . |
| 12 | The aptly named Grand Hotel has been completely refurbished , in modern elegant style , and the interior provides spacious , well decorated public rooms . |
| 13 | Then it was being run by the aptly named Thomas Mill . |
| 14 | In 1889 , the miller was the aptly named Mr T. Miller , and between 1897 to the First World War , Frank Parry . |
| 15 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |
| 16 | A close relative of the morgenstern was the aptly named ‘ holy water sprinkler ’ , more prosaically known as the military flail . |
| 17 | ‘ I know you can do it , ’ Biddy said unrelenting , and called for Nails after school every day on her motor-bike to subject him to another two-hour session on the aptly named Switchback . |
| 18 | The aptly named Extraordinary Dancers who were booked to appear in the highly sophisticated Folies-Bergère and then went on to tour the world |
| 19 | There have been persuasive arguments for the building of raised fields by Classic Maya farmers at , among other places , the aptly named Pulltrouser Swamp area in northern Belize . |
| 20 | With a minimum of equipment the beginner can soon produce clouds of two of the aptly named Aristocrats class of butterflies : the small tortoiseshell and the peacock . |
| 21 | If Chris had n't been clutching a piece of leaf , would I have noticed a torn house plant ? some plants , like the aptly named deadly nightshade , do not reveal their effect until hours after ingestion , by which time it may be too late for effective treatment . |
| 22 | ‘ Thus we wind up this wonderful year , ’ wrote Horace Walpole on 30 November as the news of Quiberon arrived , the phrase heard on all lips and picked up that Christmas by David Garrick in the aptly named pantomime , Harlequin 's Invasion : |
| 23 | In the nineteenth century black and white grape varieties were cultivated in adjacent square plots at the aptly named Château Marqueterie in Pierry . |
| 24 | Above : You can almost hear the roar of the sea in the aptly named Shell bathroom suite from Texas Homecare 's imaginative range |
| 25 | After two years spent coaching his home village club , the aptly named Furnace , Jenkins was back at Stradey Park in 1982 for a five-year apprenticeship as assistant coach to Alun Lewis . |
| 26 | An underwater view of a jellyfish — this is the aptly named sea nettle . |
| 27 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 28 | ‘ The Americans asked us if we wanted to come and we said , S'pose so , ’ grinds the aptly named bass player Martin Blunt , unravelling his gnarled fingers from their intertwined tense bundle . |
| 29 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 30 | From the teeming slums of Rio de Janeiro to hurricane-blasted Florida and Louisiana … almost anywhere can expect coverage by the aptly named Shell World . |