Example sentences of "the book [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The book maintains an air of excitement throughout , at some points asking questions and leaving the reader to ponder until a later chapter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These are the ‘ ’ triumphs ’ and the book devotes a couple of pages to them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But beyond all that , the book celebrates a concern that a later age was to call ecological . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The book encapsulates a whole range of complex ideas that reach far beyond the story told within its pages . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The book registers a new-found fascination with Ezra Pound , too , on whom Davie was soon to write two books , as opposed to T. S. Eliot — espousing a failed Modernist against the acknowledged leader of London literary opinion — and its tactic of saying-the-other-thing was soon to become the mark of a critic eager to clear a space for himself and for others of like mind . |
| 15 | Each of the 30 stories in the book bears a relation , sometimes strong sometimes tenuous , to a place on the schematized map with which the reader is presented when he/she opens the volume . |
| 16 | The book forms a compact paperback and is available post free from Preston Publishing , Wansbeck , Bethesda Street , Upper Basildon , Berks RG8 8NT . |
| 17 | With its extensive introductory articles and detailed references , emphasised by illustrations of comparative gold boxes or designs from major museums and private collections , the book represents a summary of present knowledge about the art of snuff boxes . |
| 18 | This is not to suggest that the book represents a feminist polemic . |
| 19 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 20 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 21 | The book lacks a structural perspective , exacerbated by the continuous use of the male pronoun ( is this really acceptable to Macmillan in 1993 ? ) . |
| 22 | Written by two print scholars , Phillip Dennis Cate of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum , Rutgers , and Marianne Grivel , Professor of Art History at the Université de Haute Bretagne and formerly of the Bibliothèque nationale , the book accompanies an exhibition currently at Rutgers before moving to Amsterdam and Paris next year . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the popularity of Yardie amongst jail birds has led to certain elements deciding that the book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking , and Victor Headley has disappeared into hiding to work on Yardie 2 , leaving Adebayo and Pope to speak on his behalf . |
| 24 | This , as its name indicates , is crime fiction based fundamentally on actual police investigation of a crime , usually murder , for the same old reason that murder signals to the reader that the book carries a certain weight . |
| 25 | The book provides a nice blend of information and entertainment , and gives the reader a broader appreciation of RAF aircraft of 1940 than other publications . |
| 26 | Usually there is family and peer-group support at such times but the book provides a privacy , an intimacy , that seems appropriate at this particular period . |
| 27 | clearly a serious attempt to consider the underlying geopolitical patterns in the region … the book provides a clear background to the dangerous daily news . |
| 28 | Fully illustrated in acceptable colour the book provides a useful permanent record of one hundred of the finest watercolours in the British Museum . |
| 29 | The book provides a review of the Seventh Directive and its implementation in the EC Member States as well as giving background information on its history and contents . |
| 30 | Overall , the book provides an effective way for researchers and graduate students to gain a foundation in the fascinating concepts of the field . |