Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The latter person merely maintains of a particular set of conditions that it was not the whole of the causal circumstance . |
| 2 | The receiver is basically foolproof and generally consists of an external power supply , output jack , level control and RF damping . |
| 3 | Figure 8.5 Courtship usually consists of a recognizable sequence of male and female activities , ending in mating . |
| 4 | The display , seen here performed by a thick-knee ( top ) , a kildeer ( above ) and a semi-palmated plover ( opposite , top and bottom ) , usually consists of a simulated injury — the body is rolled on one side and an apparently broken wing trailed along the ground . |
| 5 | This usually consists of a simple coffin , no car , no flowers , no organ , but with a minister of religion present . |
| 6 | In most fungi the main structure consists of a number of threads ( hyphae ) which collectively form a mycelium , but the vegetative body of Laboulbeniales usually consists of an ordered array of cells , a precisely-arranged axis on which the reproductive organs are borne . |
| 7 | Catholic morality also approves of a proportionate degree of violence to overthrow tyranny . |
| 8 | The Creole part of the turn is treated by the speaker and other participants as being salient : it typically consists of a short stretch of Creole which brings the turn to a pointed conclusion , by summarising or reaffirming the speaker 's main point . |
| 9 | It is a mid-18th-century mansion built by the famous architect , John Adam , and typically consists of a main building with two connecting wings . |
| 10 | An instruction then consists of an initial operator syllable which specifies the operation to be performed , perhaps followed by one or more further syllables specifying a store address or subsidiary information . |
| 11 | The Eric Jones-Evans Collection consequently consists of a prodigious quantity of play scripts , prompt books , playbills and photographs , as well as a large number of costumes , props , paintings and drawings , artefacts and photographs . |
| 12 | Jade however consists of a tangled mass of needle crystals , tightly packed together but with poor adhesion at the interfaces and might be regarded as an inorganic equivalent to a briar pipe or a bamboo root . |
| 13 | Such a surface therefore consists of a large number of tubes emerging at a fine angle so as to present an array of slanting holes . |
| 14 | It actually consists of a large farmhouse and farm buildings , together with two groups of farm cottages . |
| 15 | Hegel 's conception of historical time , then , reflects his conception of the intrinsic unity between all parts of the social totality , each a part of the whole and the whole present in each part , so that history too partakes of a self-reflective immediacy which paradoxically makes it ahistorical . |
| 16 | However , a much more convenient and popular type of transmission line , generally referred to as a coaxial cable , essentially consists of a central conducting lead wire insulated from a coaxial outer return conductor . |
| 17 | Modernism seldom speaks of a shared experience . |
| 18 | Second , that Lakoff ( 1987 : 317 ) certainly admits of a limited relativism as between ways of conceptualising a domain within the same language , since the system is not monolithic . |