Example sentences of "contain [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond this , it is quite clear that the Middle Volga still contained strong pockets of potential political resistance to the centre — the tradition of revolt died hard . |
| 2 | The Children Act contains specific rules of evidence in relation to the following matters . |
| 3 | The museum contains European paintings of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries , sculpture and decorative arts from the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich , and drawings and prints from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries , The print room and library will stay open to the public . |
| 4 | The patent contains eight pages of mathematical formulae which purport to prove that a microphone will have much better directional characteristics if the holes are spaced at irregular or non-linear intervals . |
| 5 | This single DG disc , incidentally , contains 74 minutes of music . |
| 6 | Whereas silver separated from natural alloys is liable to contain perceptible traces of other metals , that obtained by the cupellation process shows up by its high degree of purity . |
| 7 | The third major pillar of the research effort is the Library , which contains published descriptions of the plants of the world , illustrations , and archival information . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that the rhetoric is Type II , whilst the proposals are Type I. This may be considered an oversimplistic observation , but it would appear to contain some element of the truth . |
| 9 | Chapter Eight contains further mention of its application in dealing with high-status people and conflict . |
| 10 | The 1907 Hague Convention IV on Land War contains further statements of broad principle which are seemingly relevant to the nuclear question . |
| 11 | Q The glass of my aquarium contains clear worms of about 2cm long . |
| 12 | This experiment , by scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay , and the Universities of Osaka and Tokyo in Japan , contains 140 tonnes of iron interlaced with detectors to pick up possible products of proton decay . |
| 13 | Indeed , at first glance this does not look a very compelling book : it holds to a strong version of the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis ; it contains extended discussions of those perennial seminar heroes Lok and Benjy from Golding 's The Inheritors and Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury respectively ; and there is a dutiful chapter on gender . |
| 14 | This fractured pluralism , as I have described it , contains few points of common agreement . |
| 15 | • More than 90 per cent of toothpaste now sold contains high concentrations of fluoride . |
| 16 | Because saliva contains high concentrations of bicarbonate , even small voumes of swallowed saliva may significantly contaminate the oesophageal segment . |
| 17 | The waste water , known as " tailings effluent " , contains high concentrations of sulphates , molybdenum and copper and was previously considered an ecological hazard . |
| 18 | This set contains definitive accounts of the Sonatas for Cello , Flue , Oboe , Clarinet & Violin ( provided you do n't mind the occasional rough edge from |Menuhin ) , as well as a spirited and supremely Gallic performance of the Trio for Piano , Oboe and Bassoon ( a splendid very French-sounding beast on this recording ) , the Piano and Wind Sextet and much else besides . |
| 19 | Nevertheless for most people the idea of work contains some notion of externally imposed constraint . |
| 20 | While such notions may all contains some elements of truth , they are by no means complete explanations of criminal behaviour . |
| 21 | The 1861 Act also contains some offences of this kind , but , as we shall see below , its ranking is impaired by obscure terms , uncertainties in the fault requirements , and some overlapping . |
| 22 | The third thanks contain some risk , contains some risk of other on the part of the direction of law and administration , who is going to hear me behave rather like a Captain Hook and raising the crocodile . |
| 23 | The cDNA insert of KA71 contains 1392 bp of coding region encoding 464 amino acids , 47 bp of 5' untranslated region , and 248 bp of 3' untranslated region . |
| 24 | The urgency to establish the EMS is , in part , a need to contain German domination of monetary policies . |
| 25 | On Easter Monday , Belgian police raided a ship equipped for incinerating waste at sea , the Matthias II , in Antwerp harbour , The raid followed reports in the Italian press that the waste , which contains 300 grams of dioxin ( TCDD ) had been incinerated on board a Dutch ship in the North Sea . |
| 26 | She had not expected his mind to contain this kind of landscape . |
| 27 | This apparatus , set up by physicists from Frascati , Milan and Turin , contains 134 tonnes of iron . |
| 28 | A much fuller review of many of the syntactic theories and applications is provided by Winograd ( 1983 ) , which contains detailed descriptions of many syntactic theories and applications . |
| 29 | The Act contains detailed provisions of the minimum content of the contract of amalgamation . |
| 30 | Part Five , Planning and Assessment , contains detailed examples of how one might go about planning a topic based drama . |