Example sentences of "[pron] contained [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | California , which was exempt from the federal ruling that no state could adopt emission standards for new vehicles more stringent than the federal ones , passed the Pure Air Act of 1968 , which contained explicit emission standards for hydrocarbons , carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen for post-1970 new vehicles . |
| 2 | One is the second-century establishment at Godmanchester , manufacturing both iron and copper goods in a timber-framed workshop with an open front which contained four shaft furnaces and a bowl shaped smithing furnace . |
| 3 | The package , which contained numerous tax incentives , was designed to stimulate the stagnant US economy , and to realize the administration 's prediction that economic growth would resume in early 1992 and would accelerate thereafter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A few days later she discovered that although the can was CFC-free , it contained other greenhouse gases . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It contained eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Edward Burr e-Jones and woodcut borders and initials by Morris himself . |
| 8 | It contained several birthday cards , but Dana 's was late , as usual . |
| 9 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tory Darlington councillor Peter Jones hit out at the show after hearing it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic , and a simulated sex act . |
| 12 | It contained some routine passages but the central message was a sustained attack upon the two press lords : |
| 13 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |