Example sentences of "it contained [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1882 the Society for Psychical Research was founded ; at first it contained both convinced spiritualists and sober enquirers like Sidgwick , but soon the spiritualists left . |
| 2 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 3 | A Congress of People 's Deputies was elected from the whole country , but it contained too many deputies to be an effective parliamentary assembly . |
| 4 | It contained only two songs : ‘ Soiled ’ , a frothy , winsome pop thing , and ‘ Soup ’ , a luscious paean to Judy Garland that was supremely infectious , full of wry wit ( ‘ You 're much thinner when you 're ill ’ ) and packed with aural surprises . |
| 5 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |