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The supposedly leaked list contained the names of Kate Winslet (Holy Smoke) and Gwyneth Paltrow (The Talented Mr Ripley) as nominees but neither appeared in the final lists.
Scullion said a recent Facebook page he saw which contained racist abuse aimed at Indigenous people was proof that "we still haven't got it right in this country".
"Believe me when I tell you that we are going for it this time - we want to be successful in Europe, and the money we are raising now will take us there," Murray boasted of a team that, by then, contained Arthur Numan, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Michael Mols.
They contained daily forecasts of the interest rates charged between banks for lending in Japan's yen currency.
In a particular blow to Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, and Richard Burr, the intelligence committee chairman, the Senate rejected a series of amendments that were designed to weaken the surveillance and transparency reforms contained in the USA Freedom Act.
Evans' 53 occupied just 30 balls and contained four mighty sixes.
What is worrying is that the original story was so clearly completely untrue and contained clear statements from the council that demonstrated this.
In such moments natural beauty becomes a kind of devastation – it is pure encounter, too compressed in time and space to be properly contained.
Having just, and very satisfyingly, reshelved my cookery books, I was puzzled to discover that not a single volume in the French section contained a recipe for coq au riesling.
Schneiderman had argued the marketing documents contained a claim that traders channelling business to Barclays' dark pool would be protected from high frequency traders, when this was not the case in reality.
The revelations – contained in a previously unseen email sent by Dave Hartnett, the then head of HMRC – also bring to light the fact that Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office NAOO), told his staff that the review by Sir Andrew Park would find no evidence of serious wrongdoing.
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The primary grammatical function of "contained" is as the past tense and past participle of the verb contain , indicating that something held or included something else in the past. Ludwig confirms that the phrase is correct and usable in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
