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