Example sentences of "[conj] it contain [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 | Although it contains much information that is very valuable for academic research on a wide variety of topics ( the family , poverty , the elderly , housing conditions and so on ) in the form in which OPCS release it , the data are not easy for university researchers to use . |
| 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 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 7 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 8 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 9 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 10 | Preliminary analysis at a London laboratory shows that it contains fatty globules of lipids and is organic , of animal origin . |
| 11 | If you do not hold such a licence you may apply for Provisional LCG/PCV entitlement to be added to your ordinary licence provided it contains full car entitlement . |
| 12 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 13 | If it be light , dry and free from bugs , if it be central in position , and if it contain three rooms , it will be eagerly sought for and hard to find . |
| 14 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 15 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 16 | It does not cover the dismissal by the vendor prior to the sale for the reason that the purchaser will either not buy the business if it contains certain employees or alternatively will pay a lower price ( see Wheeler v Patel [ 1987 ] ICR 631 ) . |
| 17 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 18 | Transformation : E. coli at a certain stage of their growth cycle can , after treatment with chemicals such as calcium chloride or rubidium chloride , take up raw DNA ( for example , DNA purified in the laboratory ) and , if it contains appropriate sequences , will incorporate them into their own genomes . |
| 19 | The wound is then debrided if it contains devitalised tissue . |
| 20 | This was a rather simplistic interpretation of the many disagreements which affected political life , but it contained some truth and helped to explain why France was unable to create a British or American-style two-party system : the question of authoritarianism and democracy in the constitution , which had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution , had again served to divide the country in the constitutional debates of 1946 ; the role of the Roman Catholic Church in national life divided the Christian Democrats from the other leading parties ; and questions of class conflict were particularly apparent in early 1947 in differences over wage levels . |
| 21 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 22 | It is largely derivative , but it contains some stories written from his own experience and that of his personal acquaintances , including an account of his family and its devotion to St Stephen 's church , Launceston . |
| 23 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 24 | At a press conference to mark his election victory a year ago , Mr Bush threatened to veto the budget unless it contained real cuts . |
| 25 | The direct downward view is dull unless it contains another subject at an interim level , such as a kite . |
| 26 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This is a complex table , because it contains four variables ; work through the effect of each explanatory variable systematically , looking at the relevant marginal relationships as well . |
| 29 | Zeolite-softened water may be quite alkaline because it contains substantial quantities of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate . |
| 30 | Of all three heuristic functions , fc is almost certainly the best , because it contains most information . |