Example sentences of "it contain a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 2 | This type of structure is a very inefficient way of filling space because it contains a regular network of empty spaces which run both parallel to , and at right angles to , the puckered lattice layers . |
| 3 | It contains a higher percentage of fibre than cabbage , for instance , and more than twice as much as apples on a weight-for-weight basis . |
| 4 | A horse 's sweat is hypertonic ie it contains a higher concentration of salts than the plasma from which it is derived . |
| 5 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 6 | It contains a great amount of statistical evidence and pictures and models . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | It contains a major element of truth , even if it is not precisely the truth which its originators intended . |
| 9 | It contains a verbatim account of an historic interview with Life President Dr Hastings Banda . |
| 10 | ACFA membership is biased towards patients attending larger treatment centres where there is awareness of the cystic fibrosis trust , but it contains a substantial proportion of patients who would not be included in a study based on large clinics . |
| 11 | It contains a complete map of the British road network and an inventory of all the road signs . |
| 12 | It contains a wide variety of stimulating material to be used both for intensive viewing and for extension activities that develop the language areas covered by the video . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It contains a general index to magazine features , a recipe index and an index to recipes in our popular , step-by-step cookery series , Secrets of Success . |
| 15 | It contains a vast quantity of tabulated matter and , in the list of bailiffs for the town of Bridport , references to one man of the right name appear several times . |
| 16 | And it contains a subordinate clause of time , followed by a complicated subject nominal consisting of a quantifier head plus a relative clause with deleted ‘ that ’ . |
| 17 | It contains a braided mesh of fine copper wire , which screens the conductor from interference |
| 18 | It contains a huge amount of such data including amongst many other surveys and statistics , the 1981 National Census , 500 maps , 22,000 photographs , 1,500 items of text in the form of essays and published articles and , on side two of the disc , about an hour of video recording some of the events of 1986 . |
| 19 | In addition , though wheat and triticale both contain around 13 per cent protein , that of triticale is better quality as it contains a larger share of lysine , an amino-acid that is relatively deficient in most cereal proteins . |
| 20 | Although it contains a considerable depth of sediment shed from the adjacent mountain ranges its floor still has a maximum elevation of just 74 m below sea level . |
| 21 | A building lease for a term of more than forty years , where the lessor is not a public body , is freely assignable even if it contains a qualified covenant against alienation ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 , s19(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 22 | This difference is clearly illustrated in the work of Michael Riffaterre , my example of the stylistics of self-reference , which is interesting both for this reason , and because it contains a forceful criticism of and alternative to Jakobson 's linguistic poetics . |
| 23 | It contains an uncountable infinity of dense trajectories ; these are trajectories which pass as close as we like to all trajectories in the strange invariant set . |
| 24 | Secretaries and Research Assistants , and asks specifically that something be done about the business of the House — that is , that a motion should be put on the Order Paper to ensure that the register is published , as it contains an astounding cross-section of commercial lobbying organisations . |
| 25 | If , rather differently , serving the interests of the enterprise is taken as a proxy for maximising the joint welfare of the relevant groups the formulation is unsatisfactory for this purpose because it contains an inherent bias towards the shareholders . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It contains an important law on settlement , which is likely to predate the promulgation of the code itself , although by how much is unclear . |
| 28 | Fornax is always very low from European latitudes ; it contains an important cluster of galaxies , but all its members are below binocular range . |
| 29 | It contained a 15-second sequence of copulation , and shots of male and female masturbation . |
| 30 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |