Sentence examples for contained would from inspiring English sources

A fire, if contained, would not necessarily mean abandonment, he said.

Genetically modified StarLink corn was not approved for human consumption because scientists were concerned the bacterial protein it contained would be allergenic.

In the House, Speaker Paul Ryan managed to assemble a majority for his bill only by persuading his colleagues that any flaws it contained would be fixed in the Senate.

But it fell well short of making the case promised by some Republicans: that the evidence it contained would cast doubt on the origins of the Russia investigation and possibly undermine the inquiry, which has been taken over by a special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

The version of the story I wrote was never published, and many of the details it contained would not appear until the SEC finally became public the next spring.... Two years on it is painful to recall just what a surreal and paranoid week that was for England and everybody else out on the island at the time.

But for a long time the Pentagon ignored it, assuming that the cuts to defence spending it contained would never happen.Those cuts—$500 billion over the next nine years, on top of $487 billion already under way were designed to be so painful that they would force Republicans to do a budget deal with Barack Obama to avoid them.

Much of the infrastructure spending it does contain would be in unusual areas.

Indeed, the material they contain would not be considered philosophical in the modern, academic sense.

As time went on, the cuts to Medicaid that the legislation contains would start to have a dramatic effect.

Trump's family members and advisers departed the plane, and they knew the problem they had once hoped to contain would soon grow bigger.

They show that the light required to grow the 500 grammes of wheat that a loaf of bread contains would cost, at current prices, £9.82.