Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This apparently disposes of the toxic fumes much more safely .
2 When we look , we see that the cube apparently consists of a 3 X 3 X 3 ( which we abbreviate as 33 ) array of 27 pieces .
3 It is now widely accepted in political science that democratic activity and representation not only consists of the electoral choice between parties and their programmes but in the contribution to policy making made by interest groups .
4 When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East rightly speaks of the essential nature of skills , training and investment , he has it exactly right .
5 ( The latter person merely maintains of a particular set of conditions that it was not the whole of the causal circumstance .
6 However , much remains of the earlier Baroque building .
7 Witchcraft thus disposes of the thorny problem of the existence of evil .
8 The receiver is basically foolproof and generally consists of an external power supply , output jack , level control and RF damping .
9 It is striking that while Leapor writes amusingly , sometimes angrily , of intellectual constraints , she rarely complains of the physical rigours of domestic service .
10 Figure 8.5 Courtship usually consists of a recognizable sequence of male and female activities , ending in mating .
11 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 .
12 This usually consists of a simple coffin , no car , no flowers , no organ , but with a minister of religion present .
13 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 .
14 This states that a pure compound always consists of the same elements combined in the same proportion by weight .
15 Jim Corbett tells just such a tale in his Man-Eaters of Kumaon , and since his lead-in to the episode also tells of the mental abilities of creatures other than man , it is worth quoting in full .
16 Catholic morality also approves of a proportionate degree of violence to overthrow tyranny .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The figures were revealed in a major survey which also discovered that just one in 10 homes now consists of the traditional image of mum and dad and two children .
20 Everyone today thinks of the great stillwater monsters but the slightly smaller fish of very many rivers fight well , look splendid and can grow more than respectable in size .
21 Training in one of the many kung fu styles that exist today consists of the systematic learning and practice of pre-arranged sets known as forms .
22 Its criminal jurisdiction is , in the sixteenth century , vested in a set of commissioners welcome in practice to be invariably judges of the Common Law Courts .
23 It conventionally consists of the budgeted profit and loss account and balance sheet for the organization .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 He sometimes speaks of the scientific method as one of the possible methods of responding to doubt , sometimes as a ‘ way of life ’ , but he always seems to see it as optional though supremely rational .
27 Since then traces of the German past have been eradicated .
28 The Lamb , Buckland , Oxfordshire : its exterior charm remains ( left ) , but inside ( right ) little remains of the former interior .
29 This approach more than adequately disposes of the particular point at issue in the Pickin case but does not , as is hardly surprising , answer a number of questions which were not asked :
30 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 .
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