Sentence examples for contained as it from inspiring English sources

This piece took place inside a structure that looked like a giant, velvet-draped refrigerator and which contained, as it revolved, five small separate theatres, each with its own cast of puppets operated by Krog, who stood unseen in the center.

But Clarke took an 11 that contained, as it happens, three pretty poor shots.

Eight years later, in the midst of World War II, Ben-Zvi and other scholars tried again to win over the Aleppo community, fearing that the codex, contained as it was in an Arab state during wartime, was in danger.

In an update on Tuesday, fire officials said the blaze was 20 percent contained as it burned nearly 180,000 acres in Stanislaus National Forest and along the eastern edge into Yosemite.

It is not that I have to compare sides in order to ascertain the size of an angle, but rather that our conception of an angle entails the notion of a space contained, as it were, between two lines that meet at a point and we cannot 'think' of a 'mere angle' in the sense of an unbounded spatial quantity.

The massive Rim fire on Tuesday became the seventh-largest wildfire in California's history, and remained 20% contained as it burned in and around Yosemite National Park.

This well preserved and accessible multistory complex is named for a white plaster wall on one section; at one time it contained as many as 80 rooms.

The serum was pretested to ensure that it contained as little as possible osteogenic activity towards C2C12 [ 9].

The test ratcheted up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain as it continued to pursue the development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

His programme, Journey of My Lifetime, promised little, containing as it did the word "journey".

(The New York Post's "Honey, I Blew Up the House" was probably the best, containing as it did an implicit ho-hum).