Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] contained [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk expressed the view that they contained inadmissible material because of the hearsay rule and he took the view that the evidence was inadmissible despite the relevant provisions of the Children Act 1989 designed to overcome that difficulty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 6 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 7 | 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 . |