Example sentences of "this [adj] book [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Featuring winning looks from the 1992 L'Oréal Colour Trophy Awards , commercial looks from leading hairdressers around the country plus technical advice on products used , this glossy book provides all the client needs to know about hair colour . |
| 2 | This versatile book combines communicative activities with information on topics as varied as national customs , food , and the generation gap . |
| 3 | The paradox is , of course , that this little book has achieved a fortuitous permanence because of Eliot 's fame . |
| 4 | This remarkable book shows that happy conjunction of the personal and the descriptive which marks the best travelogues . |
| 5 | In common with much of the writing on which this present book draws for useful insights , Massey focuses on capital as the active agent in the processes with which she is concerned . |
| 6 | This handy book has step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations . |
| 7 | The bulk of this short book consists of transcriptions of letters sent by Giardini to Leone while the latter was scouring Italy for suitable singers . |
| 8 | Country by country , this superb book covers all last season 's League and Cup results and squad members . |
| 9 | Compiled with notes and drawings made by the Author at the time , this small book gives an insight into the hard life endured by PoWs . |
| 10 | This lavish book provides us with a full-colour holiday brochure ; a ‘ sightseer 's guide for anyone journeying through this brave new world ’ . |
| 11 | This big book contains 140 essays by nearly as many authors . |
| 12 | Besides retelling the old story in the words of Charles Perrault , the first fairy-tale writer of them all , this delightful book has chapters on Bakst and the Ballets Russes , and on James de Rothschild 's commission and his life and very happy marriage to Dollie Pinto . |
| 13 | On the one hand , this new book offers an up to date , scholarly and well illustrated study of the artist Angelica Kauffman in England , her history paintings , her portraits , her engraved work . |
| 14 | This new book deals with aspects of the mysteries of designing organic syntheses . |
| 15 | This new book shows how good manners held nineteenth century society together … but with all we know about what was really going on , can the Victorians really have got it right … |
| 16 | The final part of this excellent book covers the history of Cilewent , a farm situated at the height of 1,050 feet on the head-waters of the river Claerwen in the old county of Radnor . |