Example sentences of "that it contained [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 5 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 6 | 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 . |