Example sentences of "it contain [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presented by the Women Artists Slide Library , published by Open Letters , it contains 44 images of work from the archive , 26 in colour and 18 in black and white . |
| 2 | Preliminary analysis at a London laboratory shows that it contains fatty globules of lipids and is organic , of animal origin . |
| 3 | Zeolite-softened water may be quite alkaline because it contains substantial quantities of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate . |
| 4 | As a rule it contains varying proportions of base or less precious metals . |
| 5 | It contains good amounts of vitamins A and D , but no minerals and not protein and is almost 100 per cent fat . |
| 6 | It is evident that however the relationship is conceived it contains many elements of disorder and conflict , and that if there is not a substantial movement , in the medium-term future , towards greater economic equality among the nations of the world , the prospects for peaceful international cooperation will become still more discouraging . |
| 7 | It contains many replicas of France 's second empire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 10 | East Allegheny displays the most glaring disparity as , whilst it contains one quarter of all North Side dwellings , total investment represents around one eighth of all North Side loans made . |
| 11 | It contains modern buildings of flair like the library , as well as block-busting monstrosities like the Mowlem Theatre . ’ |
| 12 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 13 | It contains three points of view ; those of Victor Frankenstein Mr Walton and the creation . |
| 14 | Indeed , at first glance this does not look a very compelling book : it holds to a strong version of the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis ; it contains extended discussions of those perennial seminar heroes Lok and Benjy from Golding 's The Inheritors and Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury respectively ; and there is a dutiful chapter on gender . |
| 15 | However , the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore has shown that although the hyacinth is relatively rich in crude protein , protein extracted from it contains large quantities of unfavourable minerals . |
| 16 | It contains short biographies of many thousands of distinguished British and English people from the earliest of recorded times down to 1960 . |
| 17 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 18 | It contained many people of German origin , and although the Germans there represented less than one-third of the population , nevertheless Hitler began demanding the right to their ‘ freedom ’ from foreign rule . |
| 19 | In addition to the brushes and aluminium powder he needed for taking latent fingermarks , it contained two sets of coveralls of a white , light , shiny material . |
| 20 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 21 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |