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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a building containing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a structure that houses specific items, features, or functions within it.
Example: "The museum is a building containing a vast collection of ancient artifacts."
Alternatives: "a structure that houses" or "a facility featuring".
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The French defence ministry said they destroyed a building containing vehicles, weapons and fuel.
In Durham, a building containing 250 years of local military history will shut its doors for good and have most of its collection placed in storage.
Pro-Russian activists came in pursuit and found the van parked by a building containing offices of Ukrainian nationalist groups, and fighting began.
(It is a moot point, of course, whether the creation of a building containing a £140m penthouse contributes to the welfare of society, a point to which we shall return).
"But these do not represent 'safe' levels HSE is prepared to accommodate – HSE would expect ambient airborne exposure levels in a building containing asbestos to be substantially below the control limit," a spokeswoman said.
In the garden of the museum stands a building containing a charming, tiny opera house originally built in a castle at Asolo, near Venice, and brought to this country after World War II.
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The architect's greatest achievement is to make a building contain a thought.
It is about what's inside a shape – the volumes that a building contains and how the human body moves through them.
He added that when a building contains six or more apartments, the security deposit is to be kept in an interest-bearing account in a New York State bank.
The haul, found in a ceramic pot under the floor of a building, contains the largest collection of Roman civil war-era coins ever found, museum bosses said.
This included a whole building, containing a kitchen, a rec room, a bathroom, a dining hall, and an office.
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