Example sentences of "[subord] it contain [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do not hold such a licence you may apply for Provisional LCG/PCV entitlement to be added to your ordinary licence provided it contains full car entitlement . |
| 2 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 3 | It does not cover the dismissal by the vendor prior to the sale for the reason that the purchaser will either not buy the business if it contains certain employees or alternatively will pay a lower price ( see Wheeler v Patel [ 1987 ] ICR 631 ) . |
| 4 | Transformation : E. coli at a certain stage of their growth cycle can , after treatment with chemicals such as calcium chloride or rubidium chloride , take up raw DNA ( for example , DNA purified in the laboratory ) and , if it contains appropriate sequences , will incorporate them into their own genomes . |
| 5 | The wound is then debrided if it contains devitalised tissue . |
| 6 | At a press conference to mark his election victory a year ago , Mr Bush threatened to veto the budget unless it contained real cuts . |
| 7 | Zeolite-softened water may be quite alkaline because it contains substantial quantities of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate . |
| 8 | Town water , although potable , is often unsuitable for textile processes such as package-dyeing because it contains suspended matter and soluble calcium and magnesium salts ; filtration and softening may be necessary before it can be employed with confidence in a process in which impurities can filter out upon yarn or fabric . |
| 9 | That would have been risky with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — also a continuo song — because it contains difficult display passages in the bass line as well as the vocal part . ) |
| 10 | Material for publication or transmission would be " reviewed before release " in the field by the military information officer in consultation with the unit commander to determine whether it contained sensitive information . |
| 11 | Issi Abdul , six , clutches tightly onto his feeding bowl as though it contained liquid gold . |
| 12 | Babies have very immature immune systems and rely upon breast milk to make up for this deficiency as it contains protective factors . |
| 13 | Sometimes it is called the laminar sub-layer , but that is less accurate as it contains large velocity fluctuations ; and are free to rise more rapidly from the wall than . |
| 14 | 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 . |