Example sentences of "[unc] book the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rycant 's book The Present State of the Ottoman Empire was published a year after the earthquake of 1667 , which marked a downturn in the fortunes of Ragusa . |
| 2 | Tom Wolfe 's book The Painted Word is a witty example of the genre ; it originally appeared in Harper 's Magazine , before being made into a book in 1975 . |
| 3 | Davies ( 1972 ) , on Newcastle , and Dennis ( 1972 ) , on Sunderland , both show how council officials acted almost independently over issues of urban redevelopment , their actions being governed by a vague notion of the type of planning needed to produce ‘ a good society ’ — hence the title of Davies 's book The Evangelistic Bureaucrat . |
| 4 | Consequently F. Sherwood-Taylor 's book The young chemist was soon located on the public library shelves . |
| 5 | Brian Rust 's book The Complete Entertainment Discography states that it was recorded in New York on 25 February 1925 , so this American Columbia electrical recording seems to be earlier , by one day . |
| 6 | In other words , stylistic change is at a premium ; in Gombrich 's book the dramatic innovations of Caravaggio do well , but a distinguished painter , say Bonnard , who is not so bold or challenging an artist was omitted until additions were made to the text in 1971 . |
| 7 | Or a card which contains only notes from Monk 's book The Sublime : a Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England . |
| 8 | Rushdie 's book The Satanic Verses had been widely condemned as blasphemous by the Moslem community . |
| 9 | Animals are often also hairy ( a fact adroitly exploited in Desmond Morris 's book The Naked Ape ) , so that unkempt locks suggest some connection with animalkind as opposed to humankind and thus , as Lévi-Strauss would argue , signify the contrast between nature and culture . |
| 10 | It seems likely that , if Prince Charles had n't made it famous through his children 's book The Old Man of Lochnagar , nobody might have known that , by 1984 , only 13 trout survived in this highly acidified loch . |
| 11 | Despite the lawlessness and corruption , Grigoriev has achieved some notable successes , including Edvard Radzinsky 's book The Last Tsar now a Book of the Month Club choice in the UK and Larissa Vasilieva 's Kremlin Wives , which sold 450,000 copies in Russia and is soon to be published here by Weidenfeld and Nicholson . |
| 12 | Adapted from Blaise Cendrars ' Book The Severed Hand and from the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire . |