Example sentences of "it contain [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 The list itself is secret , although it is a fair bet that it contains only a few genuinely brilliant minds , and fewer still who are likely to rock the boat .
2 Opened up , it contains only a rapid sketch of the artist 's hand holding a supplicatory top hat , above the characteristic signature .
3 But those who bought the book from the human interest angle may have been disappointed because it contains only a couple of references to my condition .
4 a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment
5 The distribution of points in it contains quite a lot of information , but the basic clustering algorithm will lose it because this algorithm will lump all the points into a single cluster .
6 Please help yourself it contains quite a lot of er information leaflets and whatnot .
7 It contained nearly a hundred pages , densely covered with rows of figures — the results of interviews with 1,072 people from Land 's End to John O'Groats .
8 It contained quite a bit of information — the position of the police telephones , the infirmaries , the hospitals , fire brigade , fire boxes , and so on .
9 The great city was a portent , though it contained only a minority of the population .
10 Although it is thought it contained only a small amount of money , there is concern about confidential documents which also went missing .
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