Example sentences of "consist [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Flapped Formed like a rolled consonant but consisting of a single tap only , eg flapped /r/ .
2 Interestingly , the department consisting of a single planner has his only service , Textline , on his desk .
3 On the basis of these standards , SCOTVEC is creating a new series of awards in training and assessing , each consisting of a single unit .
4 In Scotland , there are 580,000 homes consisting of a single adult over 16 .
5 At the moment , a SuperSparc comes stand-alone or in a system-ready Mbus module consisting of a single Viking on a standard Mbus plug-in board or with a Multi-cache Module Controller and 1Mb of expansion cache memory which can operate in the Xbus mode for large-scale multiprocessing .
6 The deuterium nucleus , ‘ deuteron ’ , contains a proton and a neutron ; the heavier form of hydrogen called tritium has a nucleus ( ‘ triton ‘ ) consisting of a single proton and two neutrons .
7 They have variable compositions and may consist of a single phase in which case they are called homogeneous .
8 The energy difference between the two terms is Δ , and so on this simple basis the electronic spectrum should consist of a single band whose energy gives Δ directly .
9 It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number .
10 It may consist of a single file although , particularly under Windows , this is becoming less common .
11 The active volcanic belt may consist of a single chain of volcanoes or form a broad belt up to 150 km in width .
12 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 ) .
13 The walls of the buildings most commonly consisted of a single row of vertical timber planks or baulks with wattle panels inserted into grooves down their edges .
14 One type of context consisted of a single word and the other of a sentence .
15 The rest of the message consisted of a single word : ‘ Dinner ? ’
16 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 .
17 The caracol , one of the old ones , consisted of a single room underground .
18 Until the mid 20th century , Paull village consisted of a single riverside street ( Main Street ) connected to a back lane by Town End Road .
19 As each element may consist of one or more of the elements of the line below , it is possible for a sentence to consist of a single clause which consists of a single phrase which consists of a single word .
20 While provision for his guests is more than adequate , his bedroom consists of a single bed with a small television at its foot , remotely controlled .
21 RNA consists of a single strand
22 As each element may consist of one or more of the elements of the line below , it is possible for a sentence to consist of a single clause which consists of a single phrase which consists of a single word .
23 Instead , the worksheet consists of a single column and row .
24 The simplest atom , hydrogen , consists of a single electron encircling the nucleus which has a single positive charge ; the positively charged particle that comprises the hydrogen nucleus is called the ‘ proton ’ .
25 The receptor consists of a single transmembrane protein containing a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase which is separated into two ( boxes ) .
26 The smaller key shown in Pic 6 has an unusual handle which consists of a single bow with double fluted sides .
27 The very simplest kind of perceptron consists of a single node .
28 As before , the top layer consists of a single node which fires if and only if all nodes in layer 2 do not fire .
29 Each village consists of a single house of a patrilineal extended family with 15–46 members .
30 A picture of the Virgin Mary and a cross are the only wall decorations , and the furniture consists of a single chair and a table .
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