Example sentences of "it contain the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contains the sole copy of the Anglo-Norman version of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin . |
| 2 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 3 | This category is much more controversial and inherently implausible , as it contains the alleged abductions of humans on board a UFO . |
| 4 | The average wage in agriculture is so low , not because it contains the odd pocket of particularly low-paid workers among an affluent majority , but because it represents virtually in toto a low-paying sector of the economy . |
| 5 | It contains the private Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons , only to be seen on written application . |
| 6 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 7 | It contains the Latin text of the four Gospels in Insular majuscule script accompanied by magnificent and intricate whole illuminated pages , with smaller painted decoration everywhere within the text . |
| 8 | It contains the massive coffins of several MacDonnell chiefs , a colourful family inextricably linked with this part of Antrim . |
| 9 | I was really knocked out by your article on Philip Glass and I think it contained the best description of Glass ' music I have ever read . |
| 10 | It contained the smiling faces of the respective captains , Ireland 's Phil Danaher and New Zealand 's Sean Fitzpatrick , with the question ‘ Whose Irish eyes will be smiling after today 's test ? ’ posed in the largest of poster type . |
| 11 | It contained the massive diversity of skills , of the workers in metal , wood , textiles and ceramics without whose inherited ‘ mysteries ’ and superb ingenuity with primitive tools the inventions of the Industrial Revolution could scarcely have got further than the drawing board . |