Example sentences of "it contained [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Clark 's committee of 25 years ago , irreverently referred to in some quarters as the ‘ Dave Clark Five ’ although it contained 13 people , took as its main brief the worsening financial position of the game consequent upon the postwar trend of falling attendances for first-class matches and declining membership of county clubs . |
| 2 | Issi Abdul , six , clutches tightly onto his feeding bowl as though it contained liquid gold . |
| 3 | The Department of the Environment has rejected the report , claiming that it contained misleading information and that the existing statutory framework was effective in controlling pollution . |
| 4 | ‘ It contained vague threats , and called you some rather unpleasant names , ’ he went on levelly . |
| 5 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 6 | It contained 10 items , including the ‘ Haffner ’ Symphony ; the aria ‘ Se il padre perdei ’ from Idomeneo , sung by Aloysia Lange ; the new Piano Concerto in C , K.415 , played by Mozart himself , together with assorted bits from serenades , arias , and the early Piano Concerto in D , his first genuine concerto with a new rondo finale added . |
| 7 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 12 | A few days later she discovered that although the can was CFC-free , it contained other greenhouse gases . |
| 13 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 14 | This photograph , this swipe of grain , so briefly glimpsed : I could tell it contained extraordinary information . |
| 15 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 16 | In addition to the usual inns and shops , professional residences and a few town houses belonging to the local nobility and gentry , it contained two barracks , county courts , a prison , a workhouse , a hospital and a museum . |
| 17 | In addition to the brushes and aluminium powder he needed for taking latent fingermarks , it contained two sets of coveralls of a white , light , shiny material . |
| 18 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |
| 19 | The osmolality of the diet used was high ( 400 mmol/kg ) because , as well as peptides , it contained medium chain triglycerides ( 60% of the fat content ) . |
| 20 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 21 | It contained eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Edward Burr e-Jones and woodcut borders and initials by Morris himself . |
| 22 | At a press conference to mark his election victory a year ago , Mr Bush threatened to veto the budget unless it contained real cuts . |
| 23 | Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ . |
| 24 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 25 | It contained 19 psalms ( with other cantiques ) , translated by Marot , six by Calvin himself , some of the melodies by a Strasbourg musician , Mathias Greiter ( c. 1490–1550 ) . |
| 26 | It contained several birthday cards , but Dana 's was late , as usual . |
| 27 | It contained seven birdies , but also a bogey 5 at the eighteenth , where two precise long shots are required to reach the heart of the two-tiered green . |
| 28 | It contained sourish milk mixed with water , and Miss Logan drank somewhat nervously . |
| 29 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
| 30 | The show came under attack before it even opened because one critic said it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic and a simulated sex act . |