Example sentences of "consist [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
2 | The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months . |
3 | There was a similar body in existence , the Privy Council , consisting of the chief officials of state together with other influential persons , which , indeed , still exists today as the formal body which technically discharges much of the official business of the Crown , such as assenting to prerogative legislation , explained below . |
4 | The Federation of Malaysia , consisting of the 11 states of Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sarawak and Sabah situated on the northern coast of the island of Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , is an independent member of the Commonwealth and a parliamentary monarchy . |
5 | The Federation of Malaysia , consisting of the 11 states of Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sarawak and Sabah situated on the northern coast of the island of Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , is a parliamentary monarchy . |
6 | There was a trinity within everyone , consisting of the three powers of the soul which corresponded to the three divine Persons : memory , understanding and will ; it enabled us to be , to know and to love what we are in the same way as God knows and loves himself . |
7 | Executive power is vested in the President , elected for a five-year term by an electoral college consisting of the elected members of the upper and lower Houses of Parliament ( the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha respectively ) and of the Legislative Assemblies of the States . |
8 | Executive power is vested in the President , elected for a five-year term by an electoral college consisting of the elected members of the upper and lower Houses of Parliament ( the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha respectively ) and of the Legislative Assemblies of the States . |
9 | Talks between Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vellayati and an EC delegation consisting of the Foreign Ministers of Italy , Luxembourg and the Netherlands were held on April 3 . |
10 | On Dec. 20 the North Atlantic Co-operation Council , consisting of the Foreign Ministers of NATO , the Soviet Union , eastern European states , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , held its inaugural session in Brussels . |
11 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
12 | Membership of an economic community requires the acceptance of a financial obligation to fund the objectives of the organisation whether they consist of the limited objectives of a regional trading group , or the more extensive objectives of an economic union . |
13 | These value properties are , indeed , only really there in the world insofar as they qualify states of , or immediate presentations to , consciousness , since they consist in the various ways in which things feel good or bad to sentient beings . |
14 | In the 1930s accommodation consisted of a thousand beds in twelve hotels . |
15 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
16 | My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train . |
17 | The same source claims that the 51 women in question consisted of the best workers in that department " ( presumably this means the most senior ) . |
18 | The Northern Territories ( known in the Soviet Union as the Kuriles ) consisted of the four islands of Shikotan , Etorofu , Kunashiri and the Habomai group , seized by Soviet forces in the final days of the Pacific War in 1945 . |
19 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |
20 | The first stage of the inspection consisted of the shadowing pupils by advisers . |
21 | It consisted of the previous achievements of Taylorism in the application of empirical methods to the study , design and ‘ de-skilling/re-skilling ’ of work ( see Clegg and Dunkerly , 1980 : chs 3 , 11 ) . |
22 | Sharma , backed by the Congress ( I ) , gained 64.78 per cent of the total votes of the electoral college ( which consisted of the elected members of both houses of parliament and the state legislatures ) , defeating his nearest rival , G. G. Swell , the BJP-National Front candidate who polled 33.21 per cent . |
23 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
24 | The normal unit of transfer , and therefore also of work for the lexicographers , consists of the current versions of all active entries in one table in the archive . |
25 | The eastern part of the island , ending in the narrow , curving peninsula of Ponta de São Lourenço , consists of the small plateaux of Poiso , Chão das Feiteiras and Santo da Serra . |
26 | It consists of the registered graduates of the University together with all the members of Senate , the teaching staff and certain other officers ( such as the Vice-Chancellor ) . |
27 | Maxwell concluded that ‘ we can scarcely ; avoid the inference that light consists of the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena . ’ |
28 | For example , would set " length " to 15 since the sting consists of the 12 characters of BBCBASIC(Z80) followed by 3 spaces . |