Example sentences of "[adj] book [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Agatha Christie frequently used two murders , and in her An Autobiography ( another book you ought to read , if only to see what direct , simple writing can do ) she recommends a second killing as giving a useful fillip when there is a danger of a story flagging . |
| 2 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 3 | ‘ Say , that sure was some book you wrote , ’ remarked the reporter , to fill the silence . |
| 4 | I can read you like a book — some book I 've read six times already . |
| 5 | Morrice continued that tradition : in the Entring Book he deplored the opposing zealots , the ‘ hierarchists ’ and ‘ fanatics ’ , whilst applauding the ‘ sober churchmen ’ and ‘ old Puritans ’ . |
| 6 | If proofs there are in this book they are only that Marxism is now quite properly the preserve of cranks and dreamers . |
| 7 | I am aware , though , that when some readers first open this book they may find a few of the ideas discussed superficially intimidating . |
| 8 | The physical implementation and application areas of microcomputers are thus different from mainstream computers , but at the instruction set level which we discuss in this book they can be treated as variations on the central Von Neumann model . |
| 9 | In this book they will be firmly treated as biological objects . |
| 10 | Now in this book they will read that the progressive forces of the late eighteen hundreds and the early nineteen hundreds will endeavour to educate the workers from the er , mythological and textile industries were not basically communists . |
| 11 | In the course of this book we shall come across other national minorities : the Ukrainians and the Kazakhs in our tour of the provinces , and the Georgian question at the more theoretical level of high politics . |
| 12 | For the first time in this book we shall take a closer look at one branch of the proletariat . |
| 13 | Although the discussion of this process is beyond the scope of this book we must not forget that the whole outline of history is sketched in The German Ideology for two purposes and not for itself . |
| 14 | In this book we have spoken of life as a series of dialogues : between carbon and water ; between proteins and nucleic acids ; between competition and co-operation . |
| 15 | In writing this book we have had a double objective . |
| 16 | In some chapters of this book we have indeed thought of the individual organism as an agent , striving to maximize its success in passing on all its genes . |
| 17 | Throughout this book we have been alert to the possibility of individual organisms ‘ cheating ’ in subtle ways against their social companions . |
| 18 | In the third part of this book we shall introduce various data analytic techniques to control for the effect of a third variable . |
| 19 | So far in this book we have emphasized the need for social research to be based on scientific method . |
| 20 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 21 | In this book we have tried to bring together practitioners from different fields as well as from four different academic disciplines . |
| 22 | In this book we are dealing with the second function ; application forms as a means of making an initial selection . |
| 23 | In the first half of this book we have concentrated on the discovery and history of Madeira , its social and economic development , together with a description of its topography . |
| 24 | In this book we focus solely on a third set of questions : What impact is the new technology having on people at work ? |
| 25 | At the beginning of this book we observed the global conflict which exists today between socialism and capitalism . |
| 26 | Most significantly for the theme of this book we talk to : |
| 27 | In writing this book we have assumed that the reader either owns or has access to copies of both Warhammer and Warhammer Battle Magic . |
| 28 | While that remains a central concern , in this book we have broadened our concern to include murders where there is a clear sexual element , and some other forms of sexual assault and crime . |
| 29 | We hope that by employing non-discriminatory usage in this book we have shown that it is possible and easy to adopt another style . |
| 30 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |