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 Endless Kiss gives a smooth finish and it contains a protective sunscreen .
8 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 ’ .
9 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 ) ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 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 .
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