Example sentences of "[conj] this book " in BNC.
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| 1 | I continued the search over six weeks in Bristol , Oxford , Swindon , London , Rochester , Brighton , Cambridge , Derby , Edinburgh and Exeter , where this book was written . |
| 2 | Where this book mainly fails is in its implied answer to the question : what sort of science is to be grown ? |
| 3 | Although this book is a discussion of the problems of biology , the first half of this chapter outlines the theory of genetics , which is perhaps the best established and least problematic area of biology . |
| 4 | Although this book is about ideas rather than techniques , it is important to remember that progress in biology is often made possible by technical advances . |
| 5 | Although this book is in no way offered as a study of history or architecture , I hope that some of the information gathered may be of interest to those who love Cumbria and cherish the old buildings and traditions . |
| 6 | Although this book is not concerned directly with techniques themselves , a political-economic analysis of soil erosion and conservation must start with them . |
| 7 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 8 | Although this book is about marriage , this chapter needs to take the reader back into history because therein lie our roots and forgotten history has a tendency to be relived . |
| 9 | Although this book can give you ideas , general hints and tips on how to press and arrange flowers , it is not until you really start designing pictures for yourself that you will have mastered the skill needed for this craft . |
| 10 | Contemporary with Watt was Gaspard Monge , who in 1795 published his Géométrie descriptive ; although this book was not directly influential in Britain for some time ( British engineers having little sympathy for abstract mathematics ) , it formed the basis for modern engineering drawing . |
| 11 | Although this book was published before many of the systems texts , and therefore is largely non-quantitative , it was refreshing in that it was a brief treatment , which began with the energy budget of the atmosphere and proceeded to include all aspects of the environmental system including the sea in the geosystem , a topic frequently ignored by physical geographers in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | It will by now have become evident that this book takes an unorthodox approach to art criticism . |
| 13 | But that would be a strictly literary question ; and it 's for raising quite other questions that this book is momentous and irreplaceable . |
| 14 | His lukewarm relationship with Ayrton Senna comes across firmly , particularly bearing in mind that this book closes with the end of the 1988 season . |
| 15 | It ended in May 1915 , during one of the most politically testing weeks in Asquith 's premiership , with the lady 's retreat into a curious marriage to Edwin Montagu , a lesser member of the government and a very close friend — indeed acolyte — of the prime minister , and it is about Montagu that this book has most of new interest to say . |
| 16 | It would seem that this book was his constant companion and the title page of his copy of the eighth edition , published in the year of his death , 1768 , was inscribed ‘ The Gift of my old friend , the author ’ . |
| 17 | It is with this view in mind that this book must be read . |
| 18 | A glance at the awful title suggested the answer ‘ nothing ’ but I soon found that this book is not like all the others . |
| 19 | The choice that this book tends towards is the second , and the ensuing problems are discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 20 | The fact that this book is being published in Age Concern England 's jubilee year is a major contribution to the British awareness of the problem of negative attitudes and age discrimination . |
| 21 | It may be fair to say that this book , perhaps above any other , has generated a great deal of interest , world-wide , in the healing art of aromatherapy . |
| 22 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 23 | I hope that this book overall will provide additional assistance in both respects , particularly for those who may not have had the advantage of formal systems training . |
| 24 | The reason for the gloss that this book puts on the world 's space affairs is simple . |
| 25 | It is a pity that this book contains only half ( 11 ) of the papers presented at the symposium , the rest having appeared in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , apparently for logistic rather than logical reasons . |
| 26 | Now that this book is so readily available one suggests as a required first question in any PhD oral in astronomy , ‘ Have you read The Realm of th1 Nebulae ? ’ |
| 27 | Indeed I hoped that this book might begin to give some clues about the origin of the tingle or the goose-pimples ; but I was disappointed . |
| 28 | To have missed these , by chance or design , means that this book has to some extent failed in its major aims which were ‘ to give a balanced account of the main ideas and achievements of sociobiology and the main criticisms levelled against this new discipline ’ . |
| 29 | That is not to say , however , that this book is meant to praise living alone in preference to sharing your life . |
| 30 | There are no positive guidelines for structure or design , and in that respect there is little that this book can contribute , other than to illustrate those impressive examples we have seen . |