Example sentences of "that [pers pn] contain [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 | Their unhesitating assumption that they contain all life as much as they are contained by it has helped them forge what to our eyes is an almost supernatural intimacy with their forests and creatures . |
| 3 | Their value for a language learner is that they contain all kinds of examples of people communicating . |
| 4 | Against this , Ryan advanced the humanistic belief that the major canonical texts are not inherently reactionary , and that they contain implicit images and models of human freedom which transcend their immediate historical context and which later readers can respond to . |
| 5 | The vital part is that the press comes to rely on your releases , knowing first that they contain newsworthy stories , and second that the facts can be depended upon . |
| 6 | Although many of the leading manufacturers , including SmithKline Beecham , have changed the formula of their drinks in the last few years so that they contain less sugar , dentists say they 're still getting far too many cases of two , three and four-year-olds with decaying milk teeth . |
| 7 | Oats are a ‘ safer ’ feed in that they contain more husk . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 12 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 15 | Preliminary analysis at a London laboratory shows that it contains fatty globules of lipids and is organic , of animal origin . |