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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These are the ‘ ’ triumphs ’ and the book devotes a couple of pages to them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But beyond all that , the book celebrates a concern that a later age was to call ecological . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The book encapsulates a whole range of complex ideas that reach far beyond the story told within its pages . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The book forms a compact paperback and is available post free from Preston Publishing , Wansbeck , Bethesda Street , Upper Basildon , Berks RG8 8NT . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is not to suggest that the book represents a feminist polemic . |
| 17 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 18 | The book lacks a structural perspective , exacerbated by the continuous use of the male pronoun ( is this really acceptable to Macmillan in 1993 ? ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | clearly a serious attempt to consider the underlying geopolitical patterns in the region … the book provides a clear background to the dangerous daily news . |
| 24 | Fully illustrated in acceptable colour the book provides a useful permanent record of one hundred of the finest watercolours in the British Museum . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The book contains a number of excellent reviews on a wide range of important topics . |
| 27 | The book contains a bibliography of works in English , French , German , Danish and Latin , and from a number of national sources , those ( in English ) from Sweden being especially informative . |
| 28 | The book contains a comprehensive glossary of the computer terms covered and there is also a complete Answer Book . |
| 29 | At any rate anybody who buys The Best of Boulestin should be warned to pay no attention to the announcement on the jacket which informs us that the book contains a selection of the best recipes of a " World-Famous Chef " . |
| 30 | The book contains a large number of photographs . |