Example sentences of "[conj] it contain [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it contains a considerable depth of sediment shed from the adjacent mountain ranges its floor still has a maximum elevation of just 74 m below sea level . |
| 2 | Reagan 's testimony was released on Feb. 22 after the Justice Department ruled that it contained no classified information . |
| 3 | Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical ! |
| 4 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 5 | At the start of the present study and , indeed , until its analysis stage we did not associate the Dounreay-Thurso area with the oil industry , and finding that it contained a high proportion of oil workers was unexpected . |
| 6 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 7 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 8 | The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables , testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable , and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable . |
| 9 | Newspapers and television implore us to slit all the candy open to ensure that it contains no foreign body . |
| 10 | The writing on a carton of orange juice may tell you that it contains a certain amount of vitamin C — but did you know that the vitamin C content starts to decrease from the moment the carton is opened ? |
| 11 | It is immediately obvious to the reader that it contains a wide variety of literary material — narratives , laws , ritual instructions , sermons , genealogies , poetry — which have been drawn together from different sources . |
| 12 | Guy Brousseau , who coined the expression ‘ didactic contract ’ , points out that it contains a paradoxical dilemma . |
| 13 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 14 | Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th . |
| 15 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 16 | Its wealth was largely non-industrial and it contained an enormous pool of underemployed and unemployed people . |
| 17 | Endless Kiss gives a smooth finish and it contains a protective sunscreen . |
| 18 | And it contains a subordinate clause of time , followed by a complicated subject nominal consisting of a quantifier head plus a relative clause with deleted ‘ that ’ . |
| 19 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 20 | A building lease for a term of more than forty years , where the lessor is not a public body , is freely assignable even if it contains a qualified covenant against alienation ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 , s19(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 21 | Class is an indispensable instrument in analysing capitalism , but it contains no ready-made plan for its overcoming . |
| 22 | ACFA membership is biased towards patients attending larger treatment centres where there is awareness of the cystic fibrosis trust , but it contains a substantial proportion of patients who would not be included in a study based on large clinics . |
| 23 | That is a complicated formula but it contains the central issue that keeps on cropping up in " the debates between the socio-cultural anthropologists and the sociobiologists . |
| 24 | The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned . |
| 25 | This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway . |
| 26 | This type of structure is a very inefficient way of filling space because it contains a regular network of empty spaces which run both parallel to , and at right angles to , the puckered lattice layers . |
| 27 | I 'll pass on this one and leave interested parties to contact John Watson , though I guess it 's worth adding that NME 's ‘ Dancing Master ’ cassette is now a collector 's item mainly because it contains a live U2 cut , ‘ An Cut Dubh ’ , recorded in March , 1981 and unavailable on an authorised recording . |
| 28 | This difference is clearly illustrated in the work of Michael Riffaterre , my example of the stylistics of self-reference , which is interesting both for this reason , and because it contains a forceful criticism of and alternative to Jakobson 's linguistic poetics . |
| 29 | The third chapel on the right is called the Crucifixion chapel because it contains a wooden crucifix carried in procession by San Carlo Borromeo during the time of the plague of 1576 . |
| 30 | The average wage in agriculture is so low , not because it contains the odd pocket of particularly low-paid workers among an affluent majority , but because it represents virtually in toto a low-paying sector of the economy . |