Example sentences of "a [noun pl] ['s] book " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked , appropriately enough , for a visitors ' book and this is still in use in the vestibule of the church . |
| 2 | A carload of friends and relations drive up to his premises , sign a visitors ' book and ring for service . |
| 3 | At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names . |
| 4 | Like an illustration in a childrens ' book , you look at it and know there will be magic on the other side . |
| 5 | Is there a governors ' book shelf stocked with books , pamphlets and circulars including those from the National Curriculum Council , SEAC , Advisory Centre for Education ( ACE ) , the National Association of Governors and Managers and Action for Governors ' Information and Training ( AGIT ) ? |
| 6 | Not a children 's book at all , but a modern illustrated coffee-table book with careful , delicate photographs . |
| 7 | Cockle Button , Cockle Ben , a children 's book he wrote in the 1930s , has remarkably good illustrations . |
| 8 | Pick up any book ( not a children 's book or one which is highly technical or full of pictures ) and open it where you have two complete pages of text . |
| 9 | ‘ Copper Blue ’ has a more upbeat fictional stories — Man On The Moon is almost like a limerick or something from a children 's book — but on the other hand there 's something like The Slim , which might be the harshest thing I 've ever written . |
| 10 | Prior to buying the engineering companies , it consisted of a mixed bag of companies , including three hotels in the Peak District , Staffordshire and Lincoln , a company making artificial flowers and children 's hats , a children 's book publisher and a company that cleans and processes pig and sheep intestines into sausage casings . |
| 11 | It was like looking at one of those pictures in a children 's book in which there was a glaringly obvious deliberate mistake . |
| 12 | It starts with the artist 's first major — and arguably finest — graphic work , the illustrated book Die traumenden Knaben produced in 1907 as a children 's book for the Wiener Werkstatte , and includes graphic work from throughout the artist 's career . |
| 13 | Organic gardening also gives us a children 's book : Muck and Magic : Start Your Own Green Garden ( Search Press , March , £4.95 , 0 85532 757 X ) by Jo Readman , another name associated with Henry Doubleday . |
| 14 | A group of 12 readers will look at the books of 1993 , and Madeleine Lindley , a children 's book specialist based in Oldham , has agreed to co-ordinate the pruning process . |
| 15 | Look at this opening section of a children 's book : |
| 16 | For instance , one exercise involves reading a children 's book aloud but singing every verb . |
| 17 | He has also published a children 's book on the birds of Vietnam , The Birds Are Our Friends , for distribution in Vietnam 's school system . |
| 18 | Mairi is a children 's book author ( Kirsty Morag stories ) but my interest and knowledge of her related to a lovely , sympathetic and realistic representation of travel in this marvellous part of the world in her beautifully illustrated book , An Eye on the Hebrides . |
| 19 | However , Mr Darling maintained that the hospital had written to a number of public bodies — including Lothian Regional Council — asking them to advertise in a children 's book , the proceeds of which would go to the purchase of baby heaters . |
| 20 | She 's writing a children 's book , erm , well she 's written one , and it 's going around to the publishers and she 's written or she 's writing a second . |
| 21 | it is an artists ' book of the first order , the making of which has been managed from beginning to end by the artist herself , thereby satisfying her desire for creative control over every aspect of its production . |