Example sentences of "a book to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A book to be compared to Pascal 's Pensées or Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations … ’ . |
| 2 | In a book to be published soon ( ‘ The Order of Economic Liberalisation : Financial Control in the Transition to a Market Economy ’ ) , Ronald McKinnon of Stanford University suggests a disturbing reason why devaluation may fail in Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | Perhaps inevitably , the text is rather bitty , and it is therefore a book to be dipped into rather than read from cover to cover . |
| 4 | Line 's paper takes a slightly different approach , estimating ( in 1983 ) the average cost of an inter-library borrowing to a requesting library in UK to be approximately £4 , and the average price of a book to be £10 plus £7 or £8 for acquisition and processing , and therefore deducing it to be cheaper to make five borrowings of a title before purchase . |
| 5 | It 's too valuable a book to be left lyin' around . ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the book contains some useful and interesting material and is certainly not a book to be ignored . |
| 7 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 8 | Antiquarian booksellers , like myself , and ardent collectors , feel it is all-important for a book to be a first edition and will sometimes pay the earth to buy such a treasure . |
| 9 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 10 | MARILYN MONROE was killed on the direct orders of President John F. Kennedy — according to a book to be published next month . |
| 11 | There is a book to be written on the identity crisis apparent in nurses who have been left to the mercy of all the changes , and you will be far from alone if you can not tell a facilitator from a patient services coordinator ! |
| 12 | Ultimately , however , it is a book to be picked up and read . |
| 13 | Lucky Jim is too confident a book to be called angry , its predominating mood a scorn for a stuffy old order about to be swept away ; but some of Amis 's later novels , such as Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , which was written by a sexagenarian , fizzle with fury . |
| 14 | These are the inevitable results of leaving the merit of a book to be determined exclusively by market value . |
| 15 | TPM will be the subject of a book to be published shortly by Intellect Press , describing the theory behind the graphical debugger and providing a tutorial . |
| 16 | II Maccabees is not a book to be used without some closer scrutiny . |
| 17 | There is a book to be written , and almost certainly will be written , on T. S. Eliot 's Kensington , as a companion volume to Patricia Hutchings ' Ezra Pound 's Kensington . |
| 18 | It involves national teams of four/five historians and will result in a book to be published in all three countries in 1993 . |
| 19 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |