Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] contains a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Point four erm sentences are made up of noun phrases and verb phrases those phrases can be composed of intransitive verbs standing alone , or transitive verbs and objects so you can have four , the structure what sounds like Florence smiled actually has a structure as on the handout in the sentence composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase , the noun phrase contains a single noun Florence and the verb phrase contains a single verb smile or you can have something like four two , Florence teased Dougal and there the verb phrase contains the verb teased and another noun phrase containing the single noun Dougal . |
| 2 | The pastry case contains a spicy beef taco filling and the grated cheese topping browns in the oven to give a tempting appearance . |
| 3 | The Wilde apocrypha contains a joke which says it all — or a fair part of it . |
| 4 | However the map produced by the SYMAP/ASPEX package contains a puzzling kink at a certain point on the area axis . |
| 5 | Now clearly we are not going to join the need to exercise , because Chairman no one has mentioned or drawn attention to the fact that the preamble to the budget paper contains a very distinct warning , that in addition to the estimated resource gap in nineteen ninety four |
| 6 | The LOB tagset contains a number of tags for closed class words ( e.g. personal pronouns , conjugations of to be and to have ) . |
| 7 | Talking of ATHLETICO , League officials are to investigate claims that the trophy cabinet contains a silver vegeburger inscribed ‘ Manager-of-the-Year Leslie Bence 1992/1993 ’ . |
| 8 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
| 9 | The telephone line contains a ten-minute message from Reggie , 59 , and callers are charged at up to 48p a minute to listen . |
| 10 | The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages . |
| 11 | Finally , the Disclosure Directive contains a transitional provision which is intended to inform companies of the up-to-date position when the Directive is implemented . |
| 12 | The fact that the South East contains a disproportionately high number of professional and managerial inhabitants , that transportation is generally quicker and easier because of the flatter terrain , and that industry and population from London have been relocated to surrounding satellite towns have all conspired to spread the ex-urban population far out into the metropolitan hinterland . |
| 13 | The registration pack contains a registration form , which asks , among other things , for a keyword description of the user 's interests , the length of time for which the data is required and the source of funding . |
| 14 | The latest edition of the BCU yearbook contains a great deal of information including lists of rivers with contacts about access . |
| 15 | The BBC survey contains a large number of ‘ before and after ’ reactions by the public . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's edition of the Investors Chronicle contains a special report on the 158 companies traded on the OTC market . |
| 17 | The minute book contains a list of subscribers ( presumably to the London committee 's funds ) including Lord Rivers and Granville Penn , and three gentlemen were nominated as members — Edward Topham ( 1751–1820 ) proprietor of The World , Peter Benezek and Reuben Smith . |
| 18 | The control unit contains a special storage device or register , the program counter , which contains the address of the store location holding the next instruction to be executed or obeyed . |
| 19 | Point four erm sentences are made up of noun phrases and verb phrases those phrases can be composed of intransitive verbs standing alone , or transitive verbs and objects so you can have four , the structure what sounds like Florence smiled actually has a structure as on the handout in the sentence composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase , the noun phrase contains a single noun Florence and the verb phrase contains a single verb smile or you can have something like four two , Florence teased Dougal and there the verb phrase contains the verb teased and another noun phrase containing the single noun Dougal . |
| 20 | Whilst the student grant contains a fixed amount for housing , it is generally regarded as well below market rates that , of course , vary according to area . |
| 21 | The Birmingham area contains a wealth of attractions for transport enthusiasts . |
| 22 | The program file contains a series of instructions which it sends to the Central Processor Unit ( CPU ) when the program is run . |
| 23 | The submembrane region contains a regular system of filamentous elements ( White , 1969 ) , which can be seen lateral to the circumferential band of microtubules in discoid platelets ( Zucker-Franklin , 1970 ) . |
| 24 | At higher drug concentrations more of the drug is bound to weaker sites and the dissociation profile contains a greater proportion of faster components . |
| 25 | Furthermore , if the trust deed contains a power to pay capital expenses out of income , exercise of this power will not cause the trust to lose its interest in possession status for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 26 | Indeed , the optic lobe contains a wealth of neurons which respond specifically to elaborate patterns of motion , such as the optic flow fields generated on a retina when an insect turns around or flies over the ground , but there have been disappointingly few descriptions of neurons with interesting spatial properties . |
| 27 | If one studies the plans of schools built in the mid-1960s ( the Plowden Report contains a number ) the impact these ideas made is obvious . |
| 28 | The letters page contains a plea from R Scott of Doncaster : ‘ I am writing to complain about the appalling lack of sexism in Sounds . ’ |
| 29 | The letters page contains a plea from R Scott of Doncaster : ‘ I am writing to complain about the appalling lack of sexism in Sounds . ’ |
| 30 | In the gravitational case the dipole term contains a factor which equals the net force , and this vanishes for an isolated system . |