Example sentences of "this book [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not wish to carp but what this book lacks is a list of MPs ' secretaries together with their personal details , buttressed where necessary with photographs . |
| 2 | This book had been preceded by the publication of one of its chapters , in 1924 , in The Communist Academy Herald . |
| 3 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 4 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 5 | One of the answers which this book suggests is that it pays to keep taking stock of how you are coping . |
| 6 | Some of the other issues discussed in this book have been central to historical writing on South Asia which treats more traditional subjects . |
| 7 | If some of the ideas in this book have been new to you , you may be full of enthusiasm for putting them into practice . |
| 8 | Earlier chapters of this book have been concerned with the analysis and display of geographical data . |
| 9 | The tenor of this book has been pessimistic , but not , I hope , despairing . |
| 10 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 11 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 12 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |
| 13 | This book has been written as an aid to the bench chemist and its scope is experimental rather than theoretical . |
| 14 | This book has been the result . |
| 15 | All that has gone before in this book has been based on the premise that a worshipable ‘ god ’ is not the creator of the universe , but is an entity extracted by human intelligence from the evolutionary story . |
| 16 | Up to now the emphasis in this book has been on demonstrating ways in which social workers can help maintain a vulnerable elderly person in the community , by working with the client and family network . |
| 17 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 18 | This book has been written with the objective both of making knowledge gained by research more easily accessible , and of demonstrating how in the course of providing services practitioners can use the knowledge and add to it by their own skill and commitment . |
| 19 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 20 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 21 | The work to be considered in this chapter provides for a temporary completion of the argument concerning the nature of objectification to which the first part of this book has been devoted . |
| 22 | This book has been written to provide you , the reader , with the means of gaining a sound , basic understanding of number and its application in life today . |
| 23 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 24 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 25 | The economic recession during which this book has been written has seen a reduction in merger mania but one can almost guarantee that this will be a temporary blip in the inexorable progress towards higher and higher profits . |
| 26 | To my knowledge these are the only times this book has been published which is obviously why it 's unknown to most people . |