Example sentences of "it contains the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contains the sole copy of the Anglo-Norman version of Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This category is much more controversial and inherently implausible , as it contains the alleged abductions of humans on board a UFO . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Each axle on the APT is hollow , because it contains the hydro-kinetic brake . |
| 9 | In reality it contains the only mystery . |
| 10 | It contains the private Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons , only to be seen on written application . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th . |
| 16 | It contains the massive coffins of several MacDonnell chiefs , a colourful family inextricably linked with this part of Antrim . |