Example sentences of "of the [noun] book of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , too , did the alarmist outpourings of the National Association for Freedom , a far-right pressure-group directed by a clutch of ex-army officers and Norris McWhirter , better known as the author of the Guinness Book of Records and apologist for South Africa . |
| 2 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 3 | Foreign editions of the Guinness Book Of Records are now published in 40 countries and 3 million copies are sold internationally every year . |
| 4 | And the product being advertised is , of course , the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 5 | Guinness Publishing Limited has kindly given us five copies of The Guinness Book of Records 1992 to give away . |
| 6 | Ireland 's stars of the Guinness Book of Records |
| 7 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 8 | Even for a short weekend trip , Sally , his widow , wrote there would be ‘ a dictionary , the complete works of Shakespeare , the Oxford Book of English Verse , the Koran , a Larousse , an atlas , together with paperback copies of the Oxford Book of Quotations , a reader 's encyclopaedia … ’ and then there were the new novels and biographies and history bought in paperback raids . |
| 9 | The list is long : the government 's decision in August 1985 to lean on the BBC Board of Governors not to show a Real Lives programme featuring interviews with terrorists in Northern Ireland ; its prohibition of broadcasts with terrorist groups in Northern Ireland ; its prosecution of newspapers which revealed the contents of the Spycatcher book of memoirs by a retired MI5 agent , Peter Wright ; its robust dismissal of the dissenting views of senior figures in the Church of England , senior civil servants , and university spokesmen ; its appointments to various quangos and nationalized industries ; and its controls on local government . |