1 It contained nothing but rubbish.
2 The end was contained in the beginning.
3 It was all contained in that first act.
4 The one he gives you will contain a copy of Goldstein's book.
5 But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labour.
6 He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.
7 The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.
8 Today's issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong.
9 He had committed--would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself.
10 The dream was still vivid in his mind, especially the enveloping protecting gesture of the arm in which its whole meaning seemed to be contained.
11 Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie.
12 One day in the fairly near future--I cannot give a date--one of the messages among your morning's work will contain a misprinted word, and you will have to ask for a repeat.
13 Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon--not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words--which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes.
14 It was a half-page torn out of 'The Times' of about ten years earlier--the top half of the page, so that it included the date--and it contained a photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York.'
15 He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop, and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn.
16 All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods.
17 These words, necessarily few in number, had had their meanings extended until they contained within themselves whole batteries of words which, as they were sufficiently covered by a single comprehensive term, could now be scrapped and forgotten.
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