Example sentences of "his preface to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 2 | The Bishop however informed him that he had no vacancy for a chaplain — a refusal which Tyndale never forgave : in his Preface to the translation of the Five Books of Moses , where he describes the incident , there is a marginal note , ‘ Room in my Lord 's house for belly-cheer but none to translate the New Testament . ’ |
| 3 | Alexander Pope wrote , in his preface to The Rape of the Lock ( 1712 ) : |
| 4 | In 1947 , Tawney in his preface to The future in Adult Education , raised many of the post-war problems facing the WEA in a changing society . |
| 5 | In his preface to The Castle of Otranto , Walpole states that Shakespeare is the model for his domestics , and that , although their simplicity may excite smiles , it is drawn from nature . |
| 6 | Yet I believe this new understanding must be included in the account , for as Blacking ( 1977 : vii ) pointed out in his preface to the Anthropology of the Body : |