Example sentences of "consist of a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of a 28-seat House of Assembly popularly elected every five years , and a 21-seat appointed Senate .
2 As a constitutional monarch the King appoints the Prime Minister who selects a Council of Ministers responsible to the bicameral National Assembly ( consisting of a 30-member Senate or House of Notables , and an 80-member House of Representatives ) .
3 Second , there are larger particles about 2 microns diameter largely confined to the main cloud each particle probably consisting of a liquid droplet of rather impure H 2 SO 4 with up to 20% of other substances .
4 Psychotherapy by a programme ( Eliza ) consisting of a small repertoire of reassuring questions and answers , was pronounced a success by the patients on the couch .
5 In February 1985 , the Lord Chancellor ( Lord Hailsham ) set up a Review Body on Civil Justice consisting of a small team of officials mostly from the Lord Chancellor 's Department and an advisory committee .
6 This is that the National Health Service is administered through regional health authorities , consisting of a small body of people appointed by the secretary of state .
7 The jewellery , consisting of a small aquamarine and pearl pendant on a gold chain , and a gold bracelet with a turquoise clasp , was obviously real .
8 We examine a small region of phase space consisting of a small box , B , around the origin and two thin tubes , 5 and T , around part of the two branches of the unstable manifold of the origin ( see Fig. 6.4 ) .
9 S. Miguel , nearby , is also a fine example both in construction and decoration , but only the western end exists , consisting of a two-storeyed narthex and part of the nave .
10 For Hopkins , " an old crony of Wilson 's and a newcomer , a volunteer " sky pilot " who clad himself in semi-clerical , semi-nautical garb consisting of a discreet black habit with a seaman 's jersey and a gold crucifix " , he evidently had nothing but contempt .
11 Details of the new force , which was expected to become operational by the end of 1994 , revealed that it would consist of three elements : a Rapid Reaction Force consisting of a multinational corps under UK command ; Main Defence Forces consisting of six multinational corps ( two under German command , one each under US , Netherlands and Belgian command and another under rotating German and Danish command ) ; and Augmentation Forces or reserves .
12 This unit , consisting of a talented team of technicians and artists , produced a number of tapes for sale by the BDA 's video service which had been started by Dorothy Miles , one of the most artistic people within the deaf community .
13 Left behind was a remarkable amount ( some 22 metres ) of soil and occupational refuse consisting of a vast quantity of stone tools , bones and empty shells .
14 After sonication , the sample was centrifuged at 150000 g for one hour to yield a faintly opalescent supernatant consisting of a homogeneous population of cholesteryl oleate vesicles .
15 Stage I sleep is defined in terms of the EEG and EOG records as consisting of a low voltage EEG with some slow activity , and occasional vertex sharp waves , and slow rolling eye movements ( see example . )
16 A popular choice for use on heavier wooden gates is the tee-hinge , consisting of a long strip attached to the gate and hinged to a cross piece which is screwed to the post .
17 A hedge position is a portfolio consisting of a long or short share and one or more of the available options on that share .
18 The present Constitution promulgated in April 1973 provides for a parliamentary system and a bicameral federal legislature consisting of a 217-member lower house ( the National Assembly ) elected every five years and an 87-member upper house ( the Senate ) elected every six years , with one-third of its members relinquishing their seats every two years .
19 A hybrid system consisting of a centralised computer index , and a variety of microforms used primarily to provide back-up copies of all information Items .
20 A household consisting of a seventy-year-old man , his sixty-three-year-old wife and a thirteen-year-old grandson was described as poor , as was that of Thomas Stumey , " an ancient man and a cripple " .
21 On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective .
22 Legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a 183-member National Council ( Nationalrat , the lower house ) and a 63-member Federal Council ( Bundesrat , the upper house ) , which together form the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) .
23 Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) consisting of a 183-member National Council ( Nationalrat — lower house ) and a 63-member Federal Council ( Bundesrat — upper house ) .
24 17.64 At age 11 , the same requirements should apply , but with the addition of two short timed tasks , one perhaps consisting of a factual account or description and the other of a short imaginative piece of prose .
25 In essence it proposes to replace block grant by a new needs grant ( based on a simplified GREA ) and a standard grant ( consisting of a fixed sum per adult ) .
26 Data from image-analysed or digitised filters are converted into the same canonical input format consisting of a separate file for each hybridisation , each listing the x-y coordinates of the positives on the filter .
27 Under its terms legislative authority was vested in a bicameral popularly elected Congress consisting of a 24-member Senate ( elected for six years ) and a 250-member House of Representatives .
28 By the First World War , musical production and dissemination are coming to be concentrated in a new alliance consisting of a centralized publishing system ( in New York 's Tin Pan Alley and London 's Denmark Street ) , the quickly developing gramophone companies ( by 1910 dominated , world-wide , by Victor of the USA and the Gramophone Co. of Britain ) and , a little later , the new medium of radio ; by the late 1920s , we can add the movie industry as well .
29 There is an executive President and a Congress consisting of a 114-member Senate and a 199-member House of Representatives , the President and Congress being directly elected for a four-year term .
30 An executive President is directly elected for a four-year term , as is the Congress , consisting of a 114-member Senate and a 199-member House of Representatives .
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