Example sentences of "['s] guide to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This book is meant to be a layman 's guide to the evolution of the smaller English house . |
2 | " The Hitch-Hiker 's Guide To The Universe ! " |
3 | She and Michael have collaborated on a ‘ young person 's guide to the theatre ’ and Michael has written two volumes of joint memoirs — Overture and Beginners and Double Act . |
4 | This description is given , partly verbally and partly in a more formal way ( by tables and diagrams ) , in the computer system reference manual , or in a programmer 's guide to the computer 's assembler language ; the latter tends to subsume the effect of some of the computer 's more basic software in the description . |
5 | The titles were not ones with which she was familiar : The Book Of Dzyan , The Book of Eibon , The Golden Bough , Ludwig Prinn 's De Vermiis Mysteriis , The Beginner 's Guide to the Necronomicon , and others whose titles were written in so indecipherable a script that she could n't read it . |
6 | John Ross-Barnard , head of BBC Video , then said he foresaw the release of around 300 titles , including classical serials , Shakespearian drama , Fawlty Towers and The Hitch-Hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy . |
7 | Costumes from Doctor Who , Blake 's 7 , Red Dwarf , Hitch-hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy and Star Cops will also be under the hammer . |
8 | In The Hitch-hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy the author , Douglas Adams , describes a planet inhabited by a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who build a hyperintelligent computer to help them come up with the answer to Life , the Universe and Everything . |
9 | It was a profound philosopher ( or maybe The Hitch-Hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy ) who said bad things always happen on Thursdays . |
10 | At the Douglas Adams stall there were free teabags on offer , courtesy of Arthur Dent from the Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy . |
11 | Athena appears in the first and last and in one other at each end ; Hermes with her in the first and without her in the Cerberus , where his presence is necessary as the hero 's guide to the Underworld . |
12 | What follows , while by no means comprehensive , is NME 's guide to the world blown wide open by the greatest war movies , a world we 'd like to see on TV as we wait for the next one . |
13 | Harry Enfield 's Guide to the Opera , filming now for next year , is a bid to introduce opera to the masses . |
14 | The company also sponsors the Blue Peter Green Book , a children 's guide to the environment produced by the BBC TV programme . |
15 | The insider 's guide to the material world |
16 | The insider 's guide to the material world |
17 | The insider 's guide to the material world |
18 | Henry Cave 's Guide to the island 's railways described the station at Ohiya as being like somewhere in Cornwall , and at the hill stations of Nauwara-Eliya and Nanuoya there were distinct efforts to reproduce English country stations . |
19 | Men , or the women in their lives , can write for The Man 's Guide to the Menopause and HRT , The Amarant Trust , Daily Mirror Offer , 56-60 St. John Street , London EC1M 4DT . |
20 | Although the teachers ' guide to the curriculum concedes that people who are close to a nuclear blast ‘ probably would be killed or seriously injured ’ , it predicts that people in ‘ fringe ’ areas ‘ have a good chance of surviving it ’ by diving into the fallout shelter and emerging in ‘ a week or two ’ . |