Example sentences of "that it contain [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan 's testimony was released on Feb. 22 after the Justice Department ruled that it contained no classified information . |
| 2 | Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical ! |
| 3 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 4 | At the start of the present study and , indeed , until its analysis stage we did not associate the Dounreay-Thurso area with the oil industry , and finding that it contained a high proportion of oil workers was unexpected . |
| 5 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 6 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 7 | The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables , testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable , and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable . |
| 8 | Newspapers and television implore us to slit all the candy open to ensure that it contains no foreign body . |
| 9 | The writing on a carton of orange juice may tell you that it contains a certain amount of vitamin C — but did you know that the vitamin C content starts to decrease from the moment the carton is opened ? |
| 10 | It is immediately obvious to the reader that it contains a wide variety of literary material — narratives , laws , ritual instructions , sermons , genealogies , poetry — which have been drawn together from different sources . |
| 11 | Guy Brousseau , who coined the expression ‘ didactic contract ’ , points out that it contains a paradoxical dilemma . |
| 12 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 13 | Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th . |
| 14 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |