Example sentences of "it contained " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contained instructions on different sheets of paper in different handwriting . |
| 2 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 3 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 4 | It is also curious that , in describing the conference folder , Ms Helm omitted to mention the documented evidence it contained on failure rates , perinatal mortality , incidence of spina bifida and heart defects associated with invitro-fertilisation . |
| 5 | The reason for all the excitement over this newsheet was the information it contained ‘ The Allied armies are advancing on all Fronts ’ . |
| 6 | It contained not only the Homeric , Cyclops and all , but also the troglodytic itself with its own representations , the dawn of the mind . |
| 7 | He attacked contemporary literature 's taste for which all things were either too hot or too cold , and complained that it contained no culture . |
| 8 | She also ensured that she chaired the important Cabinet ( later ‘ EA ’ ) Committee on economic strategy and that it contained a majority who supported the economic strategy of herself and the Chancellor . |
| 9 | At a press conference to mark his election victory a year ago , Mr Bush threatened to veto the budget unless it contained real cuts . |
| 10 | Indeed , he thought De Cive contained things of a rather different nature from anything so far in political philosophy : it contained demonstrations of its conclusions . |
| 11 | It contained no fresh insights . |
| 12 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 13 | Door after door , each bearing an unintelligible abbreviation for what each room behind it contained . |
| 14 | Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ . |
| 15 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 16 | The Roman town enclosure , marked off from its environment by the foundation rite , had itself been sacred ; and it contained temples , the sacred edifices of public worship . |
| 17 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 18 | Published in 1724 , it contained a message to the reader. : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It contained a whole range of gases that most modern organisms would find noxious , not to say highly toxic , which would indeed kill them within seconds . |
| 21 | Until recently , it contained a wide group of fish of the kind known generally as haplochromines : that is , they were once classed in the single genus ( see p. 124 ) Haplochromis within the family Cichlidae , though they are now generally placed in several different genera . |
| 22 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 23 | As Morton produced the manila folder from his pocket , Sir Rufus seized it and began leafing through the papers it contained . |
| 24 | In London , the British Board of Film Censors insisted that the rape scene should be cut because it contained elements of ‘ kinky sex associated with black magic ’ . |
| 25 | The latter was not only unquestionably the most powerful state on earth , but it contained a large , wealthy and powerful Jewish community with which the new Jewish state could build a relationship . |
| 26 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 27 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 28 | When the White Paper on Educational Reconstruction was published in 1943 it contained references to three possible ‘ types ’ of secondary schools — grammar , technical , and modern . |
| 29 | I really like the group I joined at Morley College in London — it contained a mixture of people and I liked getting to know them . |
| 30 | Given the rugged nature of the area , I was shocked , indeed horrified , to find that although it contained several hundred of Prince Charlie 's caves , it only boasted three Munros . |