Example sentences of "it contain [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it contains eight per cent alcohol , and the locals down it by the gallon . |
| 2 | Don 's neglect your nails , take the Elegant Touch Travel Manicure Kit ( £9.95 ) , it contains eight products and a guide to achieving three different manicure effects |
| 3 | It contains eight indicies such as abdominal pain , number of liquid stools , score of general well being , and others . |
| 4 | It contains little edible figures from Nintendo games . |
| 5 | It is important not to soak potatoes , as this leaches out the vitamin , and not to overcook cabbage and other green vegetables , as heat gradually destroys Vitamin C. Rosehip tea is also an excellent source of this vitamin , as is fresh lemon juice , which is permissible on this diet as it contains little sugar . |
| 6 | It contains similar rhythmic elements , but they are used in different ways . |
| 7 | Presented by the Women Artists Slide Library , published by Open Letters , it contains 44 images of work from the archive , 26 in colour and 18 in black and white . |
| 8 | This body , because it contains fifty thousand million million tons of sodium chloride and similarly massive quantities of other dissolved salts , is undrinkable by most living creatures , but in scores of other ways is central — vital , indeed — to the existence of all life . |
| 9 | Babies have very immature immune systems and rely upon breast milk to make up for this deficiency as it contains protective factors . |
| 10 | It contains religious admonition despite announcing itself as a secular ordinance , and many chapters are about the promotion of Christianity and the welfare of the church , while some of the secular material reflects the ecclesiastical desire for justice , public order and the protection of the weak . |
| 11 | In addition to the usual material , it contains useful chapters on electromagnetism and relativistic fluids and introduces the reader to tensor notation . |
| 12 | The link record is usually not redundant , that is , it contains useful information in itself ( in the relational model , it may well have been specified in any case , as a separate relation formed from a relationship in the data analysis phase ) . |
| 13 | It contains 7,000–8,000 products including the company 's new Horizon windlass , which is sold in 1kw and 1.5kw models suitable for boats up to 55ft ( 16.8m ) . |
| 14 | It is a singularity of the book that it contains such a wealth of excellent and dramatic illustrations and deals with such titanic forces and events , but written in such a flat style . |
| 15 | This has received little attention since its ascent in 1983 , possibly because it contains such mind-blowing attractions as a 40-feet skyhook section . |
| 16 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 17 | It contains six small apples and has the sort of handle which makes it easy to carry to school or on outings . |
| 18 | Chosen by Elizabeth Easton , Brooklyn 's associate curator of European Painting and Sculpture , it contains sixty paintings and works on paper ( among them ten recently discovered works ) , including the monumental ‘ Bathers ’ from the Fogg Art Museum , the ‘ Negress with Peonies ’ from the Musée Fabre , Montepellier , and ‘ Self-Portrait with Palette ’ from the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 19 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
| 20 | It contains 41 articles — including the right to a name — through to health , education , and so one . |
| 21 | Preliminary analysis at a London laboratory shows that it contains fatty globules of lipids and is organic , of animal origin . |
| 22 | It contains unrivalled 18th century English furniture made especially for Harewood by Thomas Chippendale , born only a few miles further up the Wharfe Valley at Otley . |
| 23 | But , as Godwin comments , the room he describes is not an example of the direst stage of London poverty , for it contains various objects that could be sold . |
| 24 | It contains all the essential amino acids and all the known B vitamins , but perhaps its most important constituent is haemoglobin iron . |
| 25 | This shows that it contains all the genes , not just some of them . |
| 26 | It contains all the elements that have normally been placed at the centre of crisis theory in the Marxist tradition , i.e. the falling rate of profit , excess capital , excess commodities . |
| 27 | From Waddingtons , priced around £13 , it contains all the raw materials they 'll need . |
| 28 | It contains all the flavour of common salt but only a third of its sodium . |
| 29 | Although it is only a brief summary , it contains all the relevant information necessary to follow the ten steps — plus a measure of red-herrings . |
| 30 | It contains all the familiar Berliozian qualities save the macabre and the colossal , and reveals not only the greatness of his imagination in old age , but the beauty and purity of a spirit that , at the end of a life of frustration at being misjudged , could invent music of such supreme innocence and tenderness . ’ |