verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bag contains sth
▪ Lisa was carrying the bag containing the beach towels.
a collection consists of/contains sth
▪ The collection consists of some 500 items.
a compound contains sth
▪ This compound contains two atoms of nitrogen and four atoms of hydrogen.
contain information
▪ The documents contained top secret information.
contain/include an example
▪ The exhibition also contains some examples of his book illustrations.
control/contain your anger
▪ I could not control my anger any longer.
control/contain your excitement
▪ She could hardly control her excitement when I told her the news.
have/contain an error
▪ If the data contains errors, the results will be wrong.
sth has/contains calories
▪ These yoghurts have approximately 90 calories per pot.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Such a religion might also contain certain philosophical ideas, ideas which could be deduced from apriori reason.
▪ Our Astern also contains the newest computerized scanning device that determines exactly where and when the intrusion occurred.
▪ It also contained a clause which effectively provided for its continued validity should the Soviet Union be dissolved or reconstituted.
▪ The lunar surface also contains the light isotope helium-3, which is implanted in the surface by the solar wind.
▪ The disk also contains secret cheat codes to provide additional ammunition and level skip features.
▪ Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms.
▪ It also contain antibodies that protect her against infections - and it costs nothing!
▪ The bill also contains measures that would make it more difficult for refugees from persecution to seek asylum in the United States.
only
▪ The tyres contain only low levels of carbon and no dioxins; potentially harmful products of burning tyres are to be recycled.
▪ The usual Gregorian year officially contains only 365 days.
▪ In particular, the air now contains only about 0.05 percent of carbon dioxide: a trace indeed.
▪ Most plastic sacks contain only 5 percent recycled content.
▪ An abbreviated version of the Package Structure Listing can also be obtained which contains only the package modules in the structure.
▪ At birth it contains only a few large cards on which everything is written.
▪ The training set need only contain positive examples of this recogniser's class, but it should be clean.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ The Gospel contains a large amount of material concerned with the theme of suffering and persecution.
▪ Garnish with a dollop of sour cream. 80 Many sausage mixtures are heavy and usually contain a fair amount of fat.
▪ West Belfast contained an enormous amount of interest in culture, music and the arts.
▪ The very weakest meteors also contain large amounts of carbon, far more than we see in even the most carbon-rich meteorites.
▪ Each of the two divisions of meiosis produces two daughter cells, each of which contains the same amount of nuclear material.
▪ But the atmospheres of the Jovian planets contain astronomical amounts, and high concentrations, of both helium-3 and deuterium.
▪ Water - the creator of climate and weather Water can contain vast amounts of heat energy.
▪ These products do, however, contain a minimal amount of cholesterol as claimed oil the label.
book
▪ Each book contains ten reading texts followed by short and varied exercises.
▪ These books contain short sentences, simple words, and repetitive phrases, designed for early readers.
▪ Norman Higham's book contains a discussion of the various permutations possible, together with some advice from experience.
▪ That book contained a proposal for electrical propulsion of spacecraft, a technique we would now call ion propulsion.
▪ The introductory chapters of my books contain much advice which, if heeded, would help to minimise the dangers.
▪ However, in treating the subject as fully as possible, the book does contain specimen clauses.
▪ By Hugh Hebert COMEDY-thrillers could have a hard time without small black books that disappear containing the clue to mysterious fortunes.
▪ Nevertheless, the book contains some useful and interesting material and is certainly not a book to be ignored.
box
▪ And the long, jewelled box containing the rod, without roses or leaves, that was the wand of his kingship.
▪ On Christmas Eve, I pulled out the box containing the basketball hoop and studied the assembly instructions.
▪ This briefing box contains the oldest example of regime classification and one of the most recent.
▪ The first box contains some clippings.
▪ I think the box contained a few newspapers and the top of a wig.
▪ The briefcase-sized black box contained a keyword selection computer.
▪ She pulled from under the bed a box containing photographs and cuttings from happier days.
▪ Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home.
cell
▪ A cell containing four sets of chromosomes is said to be tetraploid.
▪ It is quite possible that these cells contain more than one form of adenylate cyclase.
▪ All my other cells contain 46 - a double set.
▪ In a human being one cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes.
▪ Every cell contains two chromosome 9s, and two versions of location 7230 along chromosome 9.
▪ The program could then corporate a rule which prevented a move into a cell containing a non-zero code.
▪ They are all single cells, yet within their cell walls they contain much more complex structures than any bacterium possesses.
▪ Thus, in effect, before mitosis a normal body cell of an animal contains four functional sets of chromosomes.
file
▪ The file contains a module whose name is recognised but whose version number is not.
▪ The files contained a single document, his lob application, filled out in block letters and unsigned.
▪ The files are then combined into a flat file containing all the hybridisations.
▪ Thus, removing Windows software is not as simple as yanking out that directory and the files it contains.
▪ Before next month's Starting Block, try roaming around your hard disk, looking at the different files it contains.
▪ The only requirement regarding the software itself is that each file should contain a module header.
food
▪ Examples of foods that contain beneficial fats are oily fish such as salmon, tuna and mackerel.
▪ Personally I want genetically engineered foods and anything containing genetically engineered food ingredients banned.
▪ However, any diet high in foods that contain few vitamins and minerals is likely to lead to some degree of illness.
▪ Giardia is acquired by ingesting food containing the cysts or, more commonly, drinking contaminated water.
▪ All foods containing four per cent or less fat are acceptable within my diet plan.
▪ Susceptible people experience flushing and feel unwell when they eat foods containing these compounds.
information
▪ An inventory should contain sufficient information to enable the unequivocal identification of an object.
▪ Any piece of the hologram contains the same information as the whole and can reconstruct the entire image.
▪ Viewfinders also commonly contain displays of useful information such as the state of the battery and the mode of operation in use.
▪ But it also contained information previously unknown to either Tanimizu or Sakaida.
▪ Both the Text710 and the corpus contain information about words and their grammatical tags.
▪ This photograph, this swipe of grain, so briefly glimpsed: I could tell it contained extraordinary information.
▪ Report letter A report letter containing supplementary information was sent to centres at the same time as the new catalogue.
material
▪ Many of these works contain important statistical material, but there exist also many purely statistical digests and collections.
▪ CompuServe recently shut down direct access to certain newsgroups containing indecent photographs and material.
▪ Cassette, containing the listening practice material in the Workbook.
▪ They also, astonishingly, contain abundant organic material.
▪ All of the books containing material related to the theses in the present study are such compilations.
▪ The child-use section contains instructional materials in a wide variety of format and subject matter for the children themselves.
▪ Brown calcareous soils contain carbonate materials in the form of rock or shell fragments.
▪ If the second edition of a book contains revision material, it is the first revised edition.
number
▪ Those local authorities contain the number of Labour members that serve on them due to the choice of the electorate.
▪ Third world towns and cities contain large numbers of women who may lead lives very different from those of their rural counterparts.
▪ The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes.
▪ The above quotation contains a number of interesting points.
▪ Typically, residents of both public and private sector provision will contain a large number of people aged 80 +.
▪ I got my answer by writing a letter that contained only the numbers I thought counted.
▪ It contains a number of detailed examples of such work throughout the primary age range.
▪ You see a room containing a number of comfortable chairs.
package
▪ If the latest version of the module is a development version then the package must contain it as Latest.
▪ Helicopters will fly overhead, and police robots will be available to handle suspicious packages that might contain explosives.
▪ A package may therefore contain any mixture of information judged relevant to its application.
▪ She had taken a small package containing bread, socks and other amenities to her sister Sonia and brother Nathan.
▪ Error 53: Package does not contain itself.
▪ It was printed on a raisin package about 1954 and contained brown sugar and orange juice.
▪ There is no point booking a package holiday - this contains the essentially free spirit of the tack traveller.
▪ A package to contain the issue software is created, and when the package itself is ready, a Product is created.
percent
▪ Love it or hate it, the South-east does contain 30 percent of the population of the United Kingdom.
▪ On average, paper bags contain 35 percent recycled paper.
▪ Peat is an organic soil which contains more than 60 percent of organic matter and exceeds 50 centimetres in thickness.
▪ Most plastic sacks contain only 5 percent recycled content.
▪ Few soils contain the 40 percent clay to qualify as true clays; few are pure silts or pure sands.
▪ Protein compounds contain approximately I 6 percent nitrogen. 151.
▪ Limestone is defined as a rock which contains at least 50 percent, which nearly always occurs as the mineral calcite.
▪ They can not contain more than 30 percent fat, added water, or binder or extender.
product
▪ Most shaving products now contain moisturising properties but for the really sensitive man, Wilkinson have formulated Skin Solutions.
▪ The product contains nonfat dairy milk.
▪ Tests on products containing germanium showed there was a risk.
▪ Meanwhile, other products containing the same combination of herbs remain on the market.
▪ This problem is tackled by executive information system products containing multidimensional databases, such as Information Resources' Express.
▪ Most liquid or powdered ginseng products contain no alcohol, state officials said.
▪ The thing to avoid or at least cut down on is refined sugar and the products that contain it.
▪ Most products in supermarkets contain labels that have a lot of nutritional information in them.
word
▪ Each sample contains approximately 2,000 words and the complete corpus contains about a million words.
▪ There were some former incidents containing these words which had to be reached before the incident in dramatization would ease.
▪ Each sample contains approximately 2,000 words and the complete corpus contains about a million words.
▪ Some aphasics can repeat back a sentence containing words they find hard to use when constructing a sentence themselves.
▪ Many documents, especially from the nineteenth century, contain redundant words which only serve to confuse.
▪ The words were stored in various sub-dictionaries containing vocabulary words and suffixes.
▪ Test yourself with the following passage, which contains misspelt words taken from examination scripts.
▪ We don't want to sift through those so let's make sure the pages contain both words.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a pewter box containing Spanish coins from the 1540s
▪ All computer manuals should contain a list giving addresses of suppliers.
▪ Buchanan's writing contains some of the same elements as Duke's.
▪ Cigarettes containing less than 0.8 mg can be classified as "light".
▪ Crews used booms to contain a large oil spill on the river.
▪ He opened the bag, which contained a razor, soap, and a towel.
▪ Her report contained some interesting suggestions.
▪ I found it more and more difficult to contain my anger.
▪ It is important to eat meat or eggs, as they contain protein and vitamins.
▪ Some paints contain lead, which can be poisonous.
▪ The drawer contained various odds and ends.
▪ The film contains some very unpleasant scenes of violence.
▪ The film was banned because it contained a number of extremely violent scenes.
▪ These alkaline batteries do not contain mercury.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, our ability to detect, contain, and prevent emerging infectious diseases is in jeopardy.
▪ Chipboard and other pressed wood products are made with a resin containing formaldehyde, an irritant and suspected carcinogen.
▪ Each of the two divisions of meiosis produces two daughter cells, each of which contains the same amount of nuclear material.
▪ Juices left in bags that contained raw meat can contaminate the cooked leftovers.
▪ The layer containing the fingers does not continue to thicken until it fills the fluid region.
▪ The poll, conducted last weekend, contains almost no comfort for the Tories.
▪ These were the only words it contained.
▪ Well, the typical mailing list also contains a series of records divided into fields.