Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His experiment consisted of a huge spark-gap into which he passed a mixture of hydrogen and lithium gases . |
| 2 | The practice consisted of a slow-motion exercise that never stopped . |
| 3 | For example , in 1981 31 per cent of households in the Federal Republic of Germany and 29 per cent in Denmark consisted of a single person ( CSO 1989 ) . |
| 4 | Until the mid 20th century , Paull village consisted of a single riverside street ( Main Street ) connected to a back lane by Town End Road . |
| 5 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 6 | Hope returned of a new life beyond the slaughter which was being widely predicted for the March election . |
| 7 | Over the summer , Anglo-Soviet negotiations were allowed to drag on until , in August , Stalin despaired of a Western alliance and signed the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 8 | Each trial consisted of a visual warning ( two arrowheads indicated the subject should attend to a particular area of the screen ) , a series of digits ( varying in length from 1 to 6 digits ) presented at a rate of 1.2 seconds per digit , a gap of 2 seconds , and finally a probe digit . |
| 9 | The new apartment consisted of a single room the size of a small warehouse : wholewood desk and table , low-slung black leather chairs , filing cabinets , the playpen of the bed . |
| 10 | The apparatus consisted of a delicate torsion balance from which were hung masses made of the two materials under comparison ( e.g. 30 mg masses of gold and aluminium ) . |
| 11 | CHA make it easy by providing walking guides for groups — our group consisted of a rich mix of walkers of all ages and nationalities . |
| 12 | Part of the celebration of the feast consisted of a learned discussion in which passages were read from the Koran on which the assembled scholars gave . |
| 13 | The study population consisted of a representative sample of non-industrial civil servants in a diverse range of departments in London . |
| 14 | Finance Minister Gibson Chigaga died of a suspected heart attack after collapsing as he prepared to address a press conference at Lusaka airport on his return from Paris and London on March 25 . |
| 15 | Before going into the meeting the Irish team spoke of a good deal of hope for peace and the Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew said all options remained open . |
| 16 | 5 of the 38 families consisted of a widowed mother with respectively 3,5 , 5 , 6 , and 8 children to support , and in each case the eldest girl or girls were compositors . |
| 17 | To board this train at Loughton Wolverton bound , one had to be athletic , as the platform consisted of a raised boarding about six inches high , on the down fast line . |
| 18 | Tackle consisted of a wooden frame around which was wrapped light , brown fishing-line , needle-sharp steel hooks , lead ‘ sinkers ’ and a can of worms . |
| 19 | There were at least four large Russian Factory ships just inside the Summer Isles , the rest consisted of a mixed bag of Polish , Bulgarian , and even Italian freezer trawlers , in all we counted more than thirty ships awaiting their turn to load mackerel from the Scottish purse netters . |
| 20 | This book of 100 pages consisted of an edited summary of answers to a questionnaire which the two editors had sent out not only to missionaries but also to Buddhist laymen and government officials . |
| 21 | The pottery consisted of a small flask , a bowl and two shards . |
| 22 | W.H. Allan , once director of agriculture in Northern Rhodesia and the author of a definitive work on change in decade the land area planted to cotton increased from 67,000 hectares to 170,000 hectares , and fears grew of a long-term decline in fertility . |
| 23 | The government alleged Dr Siraj knew of a planned coup attempt by military officers and that , although he refused to take part , he failed to report the matter to the security services . |
| 24 | Carter 's first wife died of a strange accident on the farm where they both worked . |
| 25 | The Good God knows I would dismiss the matter as fanciful and accept that the Scottish King died of an accidental fall from his horse except for what I found , those little shreds clinging to a thorn bush on Kinghorn Ness crying out ‘ Murder ’ to the world . |
| 26 | Jokes were thin on the ground but when Mr Lamont spoke of a new form of do-it-yourself income tax form for the self employed one MP raised a titter when he shouted : ‘ At least that 'll suit one person — John Birt ( the BBC director general ) ’ . |
| 27 | Reports in the papers the following day spoke of a naked man going berserk on the street and being struck by a car . |
| 28 | A folk tale told of a Tahitian chief , Moikeha , who sailed to Hawaii and , largely thanks to his prowess on a surfboard , married two princesses and became king of the island of Kauai . |
| 29 | His father came of a well-known Sussex family , and left him a lease of Selsey prebend in his will of 15 April 1569 . |
| 30 | The Situationists ' strategy consisted of an exploratory utopianism — a kind of heuristic projection of a future society . |