Example sentences of "this [is] [art] book " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 2 | However , this is a book about the philosophy of mind rather than experimental psychology , and the main point that I want to make is rather more philosophical than psychological . |
| 3 | While I would have liked to have seen a bit more about 9 Sqn 's contribution to the Tirpitz attacks , I appreciate that this is a book about 617 Sqn . |
| 4 | Having made his point so tellingly , Mr Foot makes no sweeping claims about his compilation , writing simply : ‘ This is a book about war , more than about art … it is meant to contribute to the history of war , rather than to art history . ’ |
| 5 | This is a book that marries the old tradition of the explorer-naturalist with that of a modern scientist . |
| 6 | ‘ This is a thinly veiled attempt to disguise the characters , and a court will decide whether to the average reader this is a book dealing with Donald and Ivana , despite the fact that she changed the names , ’ he said . |
| 7 | In the end , this is a book without a conclusion — despite its charts , its statistical tables and its thickets of notes , it offers little more than a collection of historical raw material . |
| 8 | This is a book by biotechnologists and written mainly for students of the subject and those in related areas . |
| 9 | Enigmatic , delicate and beautifully understated , this is a book that will draw you into its very heart . |
| 10 | This is a book that will interest philosophers rather than scientifically minded laymen , who may become impatient with too much general discussion resting on too little reliable research . |
| 11 | This is a book of a lifetime 's study undertaken on the Ythan Estuary near Aberdeen of a duck that is , in many respect , unusual . |
| 12 | This is a book that all would be students should have by their side to browse through . |
| 13 | This is a book which , like the BBC itself , informs , educates and entertains . |
| 14 | This is a book on doubt and doubting ; it is not a theology of insurance . |
| 15 | This is a book about books ; but some small space must be found for that art , and its products , which preceded printing by many thousands of years and without which there would have been no books at all — that of handwriting . |
| 16 | This is a book about baddies , yet it is not intended to be read by goodies , because there are n't many of them around . |
| 17 | Anne Boleyn gave a copy to Henry VIII , who declared appreciatively , ‘ This is a book for me and all Kings . ’ |
| 18 | Like its author , this is a book which insists you forgive it every one of its manifest faults simply because it presumes to be no other than it is . |
| 19 | This is a book I heartily recommend to al hill walkers . |
| 20 | ‘ This is a book of humorous poetry , ’ she said . |
| 21 | This is a book about Orcs and Goblins and their armies in the Warhammer game . |
| 22 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 23 | Some Hope will be Deutsch 's first ever original paperback novel , because , says Rosenthal , ‘ this is a book for , by and about the young in a wonderfully iconoclastic and contemporary style ’ . |
| 24 | All the humour is in the illustrations , and this is a book your children will return to again and again . |
| 25 | This is a book then to be recommended to a wide range of mental health professionals . |
| 26 | After absorbing the first batch of strange-sounding names this is a book which is difficult to put down . |
| 27 | Do n't be put off by the cover but do read ! — this is a book for all of us . |
| 28 | You are told that this is the book in which Tolkien never uses the word ‘ the ’ . |
| 29 | As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way . |
| 30 | This is the book 's third edition , but the first to be sponsored by Price Waterhouse , which seems appropriate , as a disproportionate number of the analysts recorded in it turn out to be chartered accountants . |