Collocations for contain - verb

Contain is used with these nouns as the subject:
act, archive, article, bag, barrel, basket, beaker, bill, bowl, box, briefcase, bucket, capsule, category, CD-ROM, chapter, chip, collection, compound, container, crate, cup, database, diet, disk, document, edition, email, envelope, exhibition, fat, file, film, flask, food, gallery, information, jar, kit, letter, list, magazine, manifesto, manual, message, mix, mixture, molecule, movie, museum, pack, package, packet, page, paragraph, parcel, passage, plan, pot, program, rack, recipe, record, register, report, room, sample, sentence, set, shelf, site, solution, story, suitcase, syllabus, tank, tape, text, vase, vegetables, vessel, wallet, website

Contain is used with these nouns as the object:
allusion, array, bibliography, calorie, carbohydrate, chemical, cholesterol, clause, clue, copper, defect, deposit, detail, echo, element, entry, error, example, excerpt, excitement, fat, fire, flavouring, flaw, fury, humour, impatience, inaccuracy, inconsistency, information, ingredient, iron, laughter, material, mineral, mix, mutation, oxygen, per cent, preservative, protein, provision, reference, salt, seed, selection, spread, substance, sugar, syllable, trace, violence, vitamin, vowel, wealth