Example sentences of "it contain the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copy the supplied template configuration file into the root directory for the new LIFESPAN Process , and edit it to contain the correct information . |
| 2 | It contains the sole copy of the Anglo-Norman version of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin . |
| 3 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 4 | But Siberia also encompasses the ‘ little Switzerland ’ of the Gornyi Altai , a region of spectacular alpinesque beauty ; it contains the verdant grasslands around Lake Baikal where for centuries nomadic pastoralists have grazed their flocks and herds ; Lake Baikal itself , the deepest in the world and ‘ the pearl of Siberia ’ , is magnificent at any season and supports a micro-ecology with its own unique flora and fauna ; from the Kamchatka peninsula towers Mount Klyuchevskii , the highest volcano in Eurasia , and there , too , is a hotbed of active , boiling springs and geysers ; in the Vladivostok region on the Pacific coast grapevines are cultivated , and the jungles of the Amur and the Ussuri lowlands are still the stalking grounds of the great Siberian tiger . |
| 5 | This category is much more controversial and inherently implausible , as it contains the alleged abductions of humans on board a UFO . |
| 6 | It is fairly rich , and is an easy binocular object ; it contains the Cepheid variable S Normæ , which has a range of from 6.8 to 7.8 and a period of 9.7 days . |
| 7 | The average wage in agriculture is so low , not because it contains the odd pocket of particularly low-paid workers among an affluent majority , but because it represents virtually in toto a low-paying sector of the economy . |
| 8 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 9 | Each axle on the APT is hollow , because it contains the hydro-kinetic brake . |
| 10 | In reality it contains the only mystery . |
| 11 | It contains the private Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons , only to be seen on written application . |
| 12 | That is a complicated formula but it contains the central issue that keeps on cropping up in " the debates between the socio-cultural anthropologists and the sociobiologists . |
| 13 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 14 | It contains the lipid kinases necessary to phosphorylate PtdIns to both PtdIns(4)P and PtdIns(4,5)P 2 , which are present both in the nuclear membrane and within the nuclear matrix , which also contains PLC- β . |
| 15 | It contains the Latin text of the four Gospels in Insular majuscule script accompanied by magnificent and intricate whole illuminated pages , with smaller painted decoration everywhere within the text . |
| 16 | Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th . |
| 17 | It contains the massive coffins of several MacDonnell chiefs , a colourful family inextricably linked with this part of Antrim . |
| 18 | At the close of the interview , I said forcibly that , if a press statement were to be released , on no account must it contain the usual smear phrases . |
| 19 | I was really knocked out by your article on Philip Glass and I think it contained the best description of Glass ' music I have ever read . |
| 20 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 21 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 22 | The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned . |
| 23 | It contained the posthumous confessions and letters and prayers of a Robert Foulkes , vicar of Stanton Lacy in Shropshire . |
| 24 | It contained the smiling faces of the respective captains , Ireland 's Phil Danaher and New Zealand 's Sean Fitzpatrick , with the question ‘ Whose Irish eyes will be smiling after today 's test ? ’ posed in the largest of poster type . |
| 25 | It contained the massive diversity of skills , of the workers in metal , wood , textiles and ceramics without whose inherited ‘ mysteries ’ and superb ingenuity with primitive tools the inventions of the Industrial Revolution could scarcely have got further than the drawing board . |
| 26 | This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway . |