Example sentences of "[conj] it contain a [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 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Guy Brousseau , who coined the expression ‘ didactic contract ’ , points out that it contains a paradoxical dilemma . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Its wealth was largely non-industrial and it contained an enormous pool of underemployed and unemployed people . |
| 9 | Endless Kiss gives a smooth finish and it contains a protective sunscreen . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 12 | 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 ) ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If , rather differently , serving the interests of the enterprise is taken as a proxy for maximising the joint welfare of the relevant groups the formulation is unsatisfactory for this purpose because it contains an inherent bias towards the shareholders . |
| 19 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 20 | In addition , though wheat and triticale both contain around 13 per cent protein , that of triticale is better quality as it contains a larger share of lysine , an amino-acid that is relatively deficient in most cereal proteins . |
| 21 | Secretaries and Research Assistants , and asks specifically that something be done about the business of the House — that is , that a motion should be put on the Order Paper to ensure that the register is published , as it contains an astounding cross-section of commercial lobbying organisations . |