Example sentences of "it contain [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presented by the Women Artists Slide Library , published by Open Letters , it contains 44 images of work from the archive , 26 in colour and 18 in black and white . |
| 2 | In addition to the usual material , it contains useful chapters on electromagnetism and relativistic fluids and introduces the reader to tensor notation . |
| 3 | Preliminary analysis at a London laboratory shows that it contains fatty globules of lipids and is organic , of animal origin . |
| 4 | Zeolite-softened water may be quite alkaline because it contains substantial quantities of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate . |
| 5 | As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals . |
| 6 | It contains good amounts of vitamins A and D , but no minerals and not protein and is almost 100 per cent fat . |
| 7 | It is evident that however the relationship is conceived it contains many elements of disorder and conflict , and that if there is not a substantial movement , in the medium-term future , towards greater economic equality among the nations of the world , the prospects for peaceful international cooperation will become still more discouraging . |
| 8 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 9 | It contains many replicas of France 's second empire . |
| 10 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it contains two clues for ways to improve things . |
| 12 | It contains explicit commitments to Euro-federalism , as well as such anathematised pieces of social law as a European minimum working wage and maximum working week . |
| 13 | It contains modern buildings of flair like the library , as well as block-busting monstrosities like the Mowlem Theatre . ’ |
| 14 | As well as a facsimile of the Mannerist painter 's diary , it contains three texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn : a commentary , an analysis of his life as seen by Vasari , and a long essay on the Santa Felicitá ‘ Deposition ’ . |
| 15 | It contains three points of view ; those of Victor Frankenstein Mr Walton and the creation . |
| 16 | Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker . |
| 17 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 18 | In addition to the brushes and aluminium powder he needed for taking latent fingermarks , it contained two sets of coveralls of a white , light , shiny material . |
| 19 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 20 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 21 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |