Example sentences of "[pers pn] contain [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of the registers would be available before the bill reached the committee stage but he wanted them to contain enough detail to be wholly credible in the eyes of the public . |
| 2 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 3 | Twenty nuclear reactors have been dumped at sea , mostly in the Arctic , seven of them containing nuclear fuel . |
| 4 | The wondrous feast that Constant Drachenfels placed before them contained paralysing poisons , and after the first mouthful none of the guests could move . |
| 5 | The clerk expressed the view that they contained inadmissible material because of the hearsay rule and he took the view that the evidence was inadmissible despite the relevant provisions of the Children Act 1989 designed to overcome that difficulty . |
| 6 | Fashions are forever fickle ; but to Laura they contained many constants . |
| 7 | A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization . |
| 8 | ‘ They contained all sorts , from births , marriages and deaths to wars . ’ |
| 9 | A large section of the report is devoted to explaining how Blake 's mail , visits and his Arabic correspondence course were all carefully vetted by MI5 in case they contained coded messages from the Russians . |
| 10 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 11 | They contained full sets of clubs with new covers over the woods . |
| 12 | This way it will act rather like an appetite suppressant pill — or , rather , in the way pills should act if they contained sufficient cellulose . |
| 13 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |
| 14 | They contain impulsive wave components , and therefore do not satisfy the conditions of Tipler 's theorem . |
| 15 | They contain contradictory elements , importations and survivals from other cultures , and it is very difficult to delimit them geographically or chronologically . |
| 16 | They contain much expansion , however , of the ideas found in the more finished work of that period : the three volumes of Capital and the short Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy . |
| 17 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |
| 18 | Their unhesitating assumption that they contain all life as much as they are contained by it has helped them forge what to our eyes is an almost supernatural intimacy with their forests and creatures . |
| 19 | Their value for a language learner is that they contain all kinds of examples of people communicating . |
| 20 | Certainly they contain similar sayings and illustrations . |
| 21 | Against this , Ryan advanced the humanistic belief that the major canonical texts are not inherently reactionary , and that they contain implicit images and models of human freedom which transcend their immediate historical context and which later readers can respond to . |
| 22 | According to Hocking , paper cups can not be recycled because they contain chemical additives . |
| 23 | They contain harmless types of atom rare in biological tissues and possessing strong characteristic X-ray fluorescences ( gadolinium , dysprosium , etc . ) . |
| 24 | A kind of intermediary synthesis of information before its eventual distillation into the monograph form , they contain extensive references to books , reports , periodical articles , etc. , and are often given titles such as Advances in … or Progress in … . |
| 25 | They contain mixed fish , including a breeding pair of Golden Orfe . |
| 26 | Articles by Moore , Ray and Ahamed are collected together , along with a fact sheet , in an issue of ‘ Community Outlook ’ ( 1982 ) which is devoted to the subject of home accidents and clearly shows that there are many ways in which the nursing profession can contribute to their prevention ; although these articles are not recent , they contain useful information which is still relevant . |
| 27 | Take care not to draught-proof rooms too efficiently if they contain fuel-burning appliances , since lack of an adequate air supply could lead to inefficient combustion and a build-up of dangerous fumes . |
| 28 | Nearly ten years ago , in CD 's infancy , I was writing that most CD players sound like poor quality amplifiers , not least because they contain poor quality amplifier circuits , and little seems to have changed in the interim . |
| 29 | They are almost unmineralised except where they contain tectonic slices of the underlying Lewisian basement . |
| 30 | Typically , keys form broken sequences because they contain separate items of information . |