Example sentences of "it contained [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contained twenty-two large initials with elaborate borders and a number historiated ; fourteen fully historiated borders ; forty-eight small miniatures ; and fifteen full-page miniatures . |
| 2 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the notice was defective in form , on the grounds that it specified the documents by class and not individually , and that it contained certain other matter which was alleged to be ambiguous , but which I shall not quote , so as not to imperil anonymity . |
| 3 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 4 | The new council retained Pietro Borghini ( PSI ) as mayor and , although it contained six independent technocrats , the same five parties , headed by the PSI and the DC , continued as the governing coalition . |
| 5 | As in France , it contained great lay officials called steward , butler , constable and chamberlain , who controlled its military and domestic affairs ; and as in France there was a tendency for these offices to become hereditary . |
| 6 | It contained two narrow iron bedsteads furnished with dingy bed-linen and grey army blankets . |
| 7 | It contained two main provisions . |
| 8 | Late in 1950 the French Minister of Agriculture , Pierre Pflimlin , announced at the Council of Europe — and proposed later in March 1951 to the non-member states of Austria , Portugal and Switzerland — something which amounted to a second Schuman Plan , in that it contained similar ultimate objectives : a common market directed by supranational institutions . |
| 9 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |
| 10 | The system was the last shadow of the original shield in space , pursued partly because it contained exciting high technology , partly because it might possibly offer some worthwhile advantages , and partly because it could be used to show that Mr Bush had not turned his back on Mr Reagan 's dream . |
| 11 | It contained enough witty lines to keep the creeping whimsy , indicated in the title , at bay . |
| 12 | This was the basis of the position which Barth presented with particular volcanic power in the second edition of his Romans ; but it contained another central element as well . |
| 13 | Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments . |
| 14 | As well , the rest of the house was as near to immaculate as a house could be when it contained three teenage boys and a busy man . |
| 15 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
| 16 | It contained some taller buildings with shops on the ground floor . |