Example sentences of "[pron] contain many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not considered in the above example , and will increase the costs of arbitraging an index which contains many companies . |
| 2 | The old test-piece Pepsicomane , a hard 6b , locates the sector which contains many classics of 5c/6a : Franco-Belge , Marabunta , Touloum and others . |
| 3 | In the first place it is clear that ‘ modern ’ , ‘ Western ’ , ‘ industrial ’ or ‘ capitalist ’ society is not some homogeneous whole but one which contains many varieties of patterns of living , many different communities and subcultures with differing degrees of openness to the wider society , differing historical experiences , differing ways of relating as families and as individuals to the major changes in the economy and in ways of earning a living . |
| 4 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 5 | Complex subjects , like multi-word terms , may require labels which contain many words . |
| 6 | Fashions are forever fickle ; but to Laura they contained many constants . |
| 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 | Its great attraction is that , because it was organised in conjunction with the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow and the Russian museum in St Petersburg , it contains many works never before seen in the West , some from far-flung areas of the CIS . |
| 9 | One child is particularly proud of his work : it contains many letters , large and boldly formed , and this was the first occasion that he had written anything since arriving in the school . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It contains many replicas of France 's second empire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The future of Abe 's faction was unclear , for it contained many members who were thought to have joined in the belief that Abe was next in line for the office of Prime Minister . |
| 14 | It contained many names : journalists whom he deemed to be lacking in a proper respect , politicians ( like Joshua Morris ) who had made jokes at Mrs Thatcher 's expense , Booker Prize judges . |
| 15 | It contained many people of German origin , and although the Germans there represented less than one-third of the population , nevertheless Hitler began demanding the right to their ‘ freedom ’ from foreign rule . |