Example sentences of "books [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always advisable when books are to be stored . |
| 2 | Art and sights straight out of the history books are to be seen at every turn , yet now these are modern cities too , alive with their own 20th century energy and enthusiasm . |
| 3 | He quotes the words of Francis Bacon in the sixteenth century : " Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested . " |
| 4 | All library books are to be returned by Friday . |
| 5 | ( 9 ) The partnership books are to be kept at the place of business of the partnership ( or the principal place , if there is more than one ) , and every partner may , when he thinks fit , have access to and inspect and copy any of them . |
| 6 | All the books are across the street . ’ |
| 7 | Books are at the heart of long-lived auction businesses : Sotheby 's started with books in the eighteenth century , and the first founders of Christie 's also auctioned off famous libraries such as that of Dr Johnson in 1785 . |
| 8 | New route books are at . |
| 9 | Miller and Swift 's Handbook is an extremely influential text ; it and similar books are on all the best shelves nowadays . |
| 10 | If the books are on a spinner the front book is mercilessly bent forward to see the books behind . |
| 11 | ‘ But books are on offer at different prices , and the book buyer is undoubtedly confused . |
| 12 | The Sunday Times ran a feature on ‘ The college where key books are on four-hour loan ’ , reporting that : |
| 13 | Turning her attentions to a community , Trotter Street , her two new books are about the arrival of a real baby around the time of the Street 's nativity play and the building of an extension on to the house of the boisterous Pattersons . |
| 14 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 15 | Finally , by way of introduction , Ranganathan 's laws of librarianship remain valid to the study of library use : books are for use ; for every reader his book ; for every book its reader ; save the time of the user . |
| 16 | It 's also worth stressing that these books are for real people , with real gardens : we 're not giving them pictures of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace . |
| 17 | However a word of warning : good as these books are for giving you techniques to help you remember strings of unrelated facts , numbers or words , they do not in any way show you how to train your memory to remember other facts in a different context . |
| 18 | These books are for reference only and are not to be removed from the library . |
| 19 | That said , the following books are of quite fundamental value and should be possessed by every student of local matters : Local History in England by W.G. Hoskins ( London , 2nd edition 1972 ) , which remains possibly the best overall introduction to the subject ; The Parish Chest by W.E . |
| 20 | Yet the books are of particular importance for Scottish primary schools . |
| 21 | Newspapers and magazines carry extensive coverage of diet and health topics and diet books are among the best sellers . |
| 22 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 23 | Both these books are by black American women writers , writing about black people , I am going to study these books from the aspect of the main characters ' adolescence and how they overcome the trials they face . |
| 24 | So , since these books are from the right-hand side of the brain , they rely heavily on mood and emotion . |
| 25 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 26 | Sadly these books are in shortest supply in Britain . |
| 27 | Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel . |
| 28 | Their books are in manuscript , often the author 's handwriting , and some are illustrated with specially drawn pictures . |
| 29 | But the old false syllogism , " English Literature is printed in books : books are in libraries : therefore the English teacher should be the school librarian " , overlooks those sections of the stock that are scientific or concern number , those sections of the stock that are not in English at all , and those sections of the stock largely in pictorial form — quite apart from the service of the library to history , geography , sociology , crafts , and other subject departments , and the usefulness of non-book formats to all comers . |
| 30 | IF YOU want to know what books are in the library or find out about the latest reports on new topics , you can now do this without leaving the comfort of your office . |