Example sentences of "the book [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book assumes the role of the most patient instructor . |
| 2 | Her preface to the book captures the world of war-time Paris where women struggled to remain elegant and the young Vautrin sold her work door-to-door from a suitcase . |
| 3 | And to help you , if you are inspired to visit the area , the book features a number of Alsace 's best charcutieres , cheese-makers , bakers , restaurants and sommeliers . |
| 4 | The book says the aeroplane has a normal spin , but this is only approved without fuel in the tips . |
| 5 | The book says the princess is now determined to remain and to persevere until she reaches a working relationship with the Royal Family . |
| 6 | The book maintains an air of excitement throughout , at some points asking questions and leaving the reader to ponder until a later chapter . |
| 7 | Between these race-going tales the book charts the growth of gambling from modest and sleazy origins into a multi-million-pound industry and , if some of the material here is rather stodgy , top-heavy with facts , there are enough exotic characters on view to hold the attention . |
| 8 | Compiled by Paul Wiggins , the book charts the life of this Scottish airfield , from its military days with the RAF and its Battles , Beauforts , Beaufighters , Dakotas , Hurricanes and Oxfords , post-war sporadic scheduled civilian airline services of BEA , Silver City , Autair et al , to the present day when as ‘ Carlisle Airport ’ the airfield serves the needs of the local community . |
| 9 | Edited by Richard Evans , who oversees some of the world 's greatest tennis tournaments , the book offers a bird 's eye view of the Tour , not least because of some of the superb colour photography contained within it . |
| 10 | Written by John Parsons , the tennis correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and photographed by Allsport , the book offers a memorable insight into the fortnight , from the disastrously wet first week , to the emergence of a new , ‘ outsider ’ men 's champion and the return of an ‘ old ’ favourite in the women 's event . |
| 11 | The book complements the general survey of 20th-century astronomy papers in A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics 1900–75 ( K. R. Lang and O. Gingerich , Harvard UP , 1979 ) and the national sociological study of Astronomy Transformed : The Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain ( Wiley-Interscience , 1976 ) . |
| 12 | The book tells the story of one year in the garden , with a chapter for each month . |
| 13 | Often this seems to be taken to unnecessary lengths , since there are relatively few instances where seeing the book helps a selection decision , and even fewer where it is significant . |
| 14 | These are the ‘ ’ triumphs ’ and the book devotes a couple of pages to them . |
| 15 | The book wastes no time in stressing in its first paragraph the medical hazards of climbing these mountains , on which one can rapidly gain height up the accessible tourist routes to altitudes high enough to cause acute mountain sickness . |
| 16 | The book encourages a healthy fear of crevasses mixed with cautious confidence , based on the fundamental principle that in a crevasse accident there is self-rescue or no rescue . |
| 17 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
| 18 | But beyond all that , the book celebrates a concern that a later age was to call ecological . |
| 19 | It would seem to be middle sized undertaking , since the very large business will employ personnel managers and legal experts who need no introduction to the subject , while the smaller operator ( the book quotes the average number of goods vehicles per operator 's licence as no more than three trucks ) is normally too concerned with driving by the seat of his pants while looking over his shoulder at legal requirements ( one may envisage ! ) to worry unduly about the skills of communication or the restrictions on picketing flowing from decisions of the courts as well as statute in the event of a major dispute . |
| 20 | The book cites a number of further case histories and examples from later centuries , and others similar to those quoted may , of course , be repeated many times over , in all parts of the country . |
| 21 | The book creates the impression that accounts are a jungle into which the untutored layman should not venture without good rations and a reliable guide . |
| 22 | The book encapsulates a whole range of complex ideas that reach far beyond the story told within its pages . |
| 23 | The book involves a fundamental theoretical interrogation of the bases of developmental psycholinguistics in the disciplines of psychology , linguistics , philosophy and biology , and an attempt to formulate an integrative theory of representational development . |
| 24 | The book discusses the influence of continental ornament on the patterning on the spoons and in one delightful case suggests the influence of a ship 's figurehead on the form of a mermaid which terminates a spoon by the Quick family , whose workshop was sited on the quay at Barnstaple . |
| 25 | Told retrospectively as though from Judd 's disjointed , unhappy remembering , the book achieves a sad , distant , emotional intensity which gives it a special unity of tone . |
| 26 | The book possesses an appeal which touches readers who , if informed in advance of its provocative politics and disturbing subject-matter , might hurriedly discard it . |
| 27 | The book describes the experiences of other oppressed groups in Mexico , of outcast ( Dalit ) communities in India , and of fisherfolk fighting for their rights in the Philippines . |
| 28 | Briefly , the book describes the six months he spent with a little-known South African Police counter-terrorist unit named Koevoet ( ‘ crowbar ’ ) . |
| 29 | The rest of the book surveys the different scientific disciplines and highlights specific projects , mostly work done in the united States at one or another of the national computer centres sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 30 | Inside , the book analyses the defects in the system in this country where more first-class cricketers ( too many ? ) practise than in any other , and where one Test humiliation followed another either side of the isolated bright patch in 1985 . |