Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] a book [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not a book for auditors with weak wrists . |
| 2 | This is not a book for the general manager or lay reader — it is certainly not a book for the commuter or a late night read . |
| 3 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 4 | This is not a book about the whole topic of miasmas and disease , and it certainly does not cover the entire ‘ pre-industrial age ’ : it is a study of a single collection of reports by doctors and public health inspectors in early 17th-century Tuscany . |
| 5 | But , as I said before , this is not a book about the ingenuity of computer programmers . |
| 6 | but this is not a book about diet for I am neither a dietitian nor a cook and many good books already exist . |
| 7 | Although Hubble 's work ( with subsequent numerical amendment ) has been the principal empirical basis of cosmology , this is not a book about cosmology but about astronomical observation beyond the Galaxy . |
| 8 | This is not a book about dieting , so I am not going to go into the subject in great depth . |
| 9 | But this is not a book about donkeys or even about faith , at least not directly . |
| 10 | This is not a book about theoretical astronomy , but I must say something about the way in which a star radiates , because it is very much part of the overall story . |
| 11 | This is not a book about graduate employment , on which a number of important analyses have appeared in the last decade ( Lindley 1981 ; Roizen and Jepson 1985 ; Harland and Gibbs 1986 ; Tarsh 1988 ; Brennan and McGeevor 1988 ; Boys and Kirkland 1988 ; Boys et al . |
| 12 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 13 | As this is not a book on criminological theories , what follows will be a brief overview of a wide range of theories and explanations . |
| 14 | This is not a book on snakes in captivity : Chris prefers to bag his reptiles on film and allow them to glide away . |
| 15 | As this is not a book on careers in advertising , the best thing I can do to give you an idea of the sort of people you might conceivably find in an agency is to refer you to the books by Norman Hart and Felicity Taylor ( see page 232 ) which describe them all very comprehensively . |
| 16 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 17 | This is n't a book about the ingenuity of computer programmers . |
| 18 | This is essentially a book about urban policies ; the duties of County Councils and Scottish Regions with reference to bus services escape any notice , while deep rural area problems are ignored . |