Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] books on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A succession of books on kindred subjects was published by Batsford . |
| 2 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 3 | The use of the microcomputer for information retrieval and information use in schools has been neglected as a review of books on microcomputers in schools will show . |
| 4 | He won the Rexel Award for outstanding drawing in 1983 at the Mall Galleries and has published a selection of books on watercolour painting . |
| 5 | He won the Rexel Award for outstanding drawing in 1983 at the Mall Galleries and has published a selection of books on watercolour painting . |
| 6 | The shop offers a selection of souvenirs and a selection of books on canal and local history . |
| 7 | This includes some fine prints of early sailing ships and a library of books on marine topics , pirates and folk stories as well as marine architecture . |
| 8 | These are dealt with in a multitude of books on love-making . |
| 9 | WHEN Laszlo Polgar , a Hungarian vocational school teacher , married his Ukrainian wife , Klara , in 1965 he carefully studied a number of books on ‘ fathering ’ . |
| 10 | Six to ten temporary exhibitions are presented every year , and other more wide-ranging projects undertaken by the Foundation include a critical history of Vatican II in collaboration with the University of Bologna 's Institute for Religious Studies , and the publication of a number of books on the image of the black in Western art . |
| 11 | Written by the University Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University author of a number of books on East-West relations it is delivered in a grindingly dull style : ‘ From painting , drawing , engraving , and imagery on china-ware , Americans were left with no doubt that the Chinese were culturally as well as physically different from Europeans . ’ |
| 12 | In the display the Godfather 's desk had a number of books on it ; the waxworks owner reached for them one by one . |
| 13 | She published a number of books on Ethiopia . |
| 14 | He now wrote a number of books on it intended for the general reader , including History of Astronomy ( 1909 ) and The Wonder and the Glory of the Stars ( 1926 ) . |
| 15 | Going there in 1909 , he took with him a number of books on the country , its inhabitants and history . |
| 16 | There are a number of books on contemporary world politics and you 've got some recommended er for you to read . |
| 17 | Thirdly , he was a politician and in the last 20 years of his life , he gave 3 political speeches a week in different parts of the country and wrote a number of books on the train going from one speaking engagement to another to avoid wasting time . |
| 18 | He was very discursive : his lectures on Augustine , the date of whose birth he was still discussing at the end of term , contrived to include a list of books on the law of tort . |
| 19 | In simple terms , if the user typed in a list of books on a typewriter , s/he would be able to see what had been typed but could not do any more with this typed information apart from copying it . |
| 20 | The 40th anniversary of the first successful attempt on Chomolungma — the Sherpa name for Everest — has seen a glut of books on the subject . |
| 21 | I looked and looked , read a lot of books on the subject , had a lot of late-night conversations with people … ’ |
| 22 | But he stresses that EUP is a Scottish publisher , not simply a publisher of books on Scotland : its aim is to publish the best scholarship internationally , wherever it may come from . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got a couple of books on marketing that you could read . |
| 24 | When I say that I can see , I mean that I can identify the three-dimensional shapes of objects , and their relative positions : thus , I can see that there is a chair standing in front of a table with a pile of books on it . |
| 25 | If we can be reasonably confident about what the world is like , it is because our different perceptions , and the perceptions of different people , are consistent , and , most important , because if we test our perceptions they are usually confirmed : if I see a pile of books on a table , then there are tangible books - when I walk over to them . |
| 26 | An analogy which would better express Aquinas ' view compares the universe to a number of objects , say a pile of books on a table . |
| 27 | There has been a plethora of books on country houses over the last ten years , but author and illustrator Peter Morter and Brian Delf , have found a new and intriguing approach . |
| 28 | WHAT HAPPENS in Foucault 's Pendulum is that three editors at a Milan publishing house , vetting manuscripts for a series of books on the occult , decide to amuse themselves by connecting up every conspiracy theory advanced by their half-baked authors and fabricating an elaborate master-plan which explains the whole of world history . |
| 29 | WILLIAM was ordained as a Church of Scotland Minister but later became an army Chaplain ; he served in India for several years and wrote a series of books on the country which are still highly regarded . |
| 30 | Projects under discussion in Britain include a series of books on the permanent collections of English museums , while in Europe they are publishing a guide book to the collection of the Historisches Museum , Basel , which includes some of the late sixteenth-century Amerbach Kabinett , to coincide with the museum 's centenary next year . |