Example sentences of "[unc] novel [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the most penetrating analysis of the human problems behind double blind drug trials is to be found not in any treatise of medical ethics but in John Rowan Wilson 's novel The Double Blind ( 1961 ) , so the stern and rigorous standards of experimental science are uniquely illustrated in Arrowsmith . |
| 2 | All that remains on the site of the monastic gatehouse in modern Perth is the stone house associated with Walter Scott 's novel The Fair Maid of Perth . |
| 3 | In a speech on Tehran radio on June 5 Hojatolislam Seyed Ali Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , repeated the demand that the British novelist Salman Rushdie should be handed over to British Moslems " so that he can be killed for blasphemy against Islam " , as first decreed by fatwa issued in February 1989 by the late Ayatollah Khomeini after publication of Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see pp. 36450-51 ] . |
| 4 | British Moslem leaders claimed that the ban was an example of British double standards , since there had been no ban on Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses , for which he had first been condemned to death by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989 [ see pp. 36450-51 ; 37266 ] . |
| 5 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 6 | A unique collaboration of poetry , music and theatre inspired by Michele Robert 's novel The Wild Girl . |
| 7 | An incipient storm was provoked by Michele Robert 's novel The Wild Girl . |
| 8 | A recent Government statement following the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satantic Verses stated that blasphemy prosecutions would be ‘ damaging , divisive and inappropriate . ’ |