Example sentences of "consist of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give a counter-example : in a long line consisting of two-note groups , you may need to do the opposite and emphasise each second note . |
| 2 | Brzezinski considered the President 's words to represent ‘ a formal recognition of a centrally important reality : that America 's security had become interdependent with the security of three central and interrelated strategic zones consisting of Western Europe , the Far East and the Middle East Persian Gulf area ’ . |
| 3 | A campaign by our supporters is the only option left , inevitably consisting of emotive stories and personal opinions , since reasoned articles in the health columns of the broadsheets will mobilise few people . |
| 4 | The popular media — such as Tomorrow 's World , for example , or children 's science books — tend to present science as consisting of benevolent inventions , or a series of clever tricks . |
| 5 | The touchstone of the exhibition , its organisers say , is an object by the artist Robert Gober consisting of bundled-up newspapers showing headlines written by Gober referring to news events . |
| 6 | Very indifferent to conditions , though it will relish a planting medium consisting of nutritious detritus . |
| 7 | In conclusion , a consensus prevailed that a group would have to be formed , consisting of disabled people in West Belfast , to make an impression and lobby on social policy and legal questions on the diverse needs of disabled people . |
| 8 | But most applications require the transmission of digital messages consisting of binary digits or hits . |
| 9 | The only difference between the two species is that splurge-weed reproduces by hiving off chunks of itself consisting of indeterminate numbers of cells , while bottle-wrack reproduces by hiving off chunks of itself always consisting of single cells . |
| 10 | More than three hundred and fifty visitors from all parts of the British Isles attended and participated in a programme consisting of religious services , business meetings , lectures , receptions , entertainments , outings and a banquet , which was a grand occasion supported by two hundred and forty-seven guests . |
| 11 | In July Mr Pettersson was convicted by a the crown court in a split decision where the majority , consisting of lay assessors , unanimously voted in favour of a life sentence . |
| 12 | At this point microscopical examination showed a single cell suspension consisting of epithelial cells and a small number of mononuclear and red blood cells . |
| 13 | However , the composition of the intraluminal thrombus formed in association with the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque is heterogeneous , consisting of platelet-rich material contiguous to the area of plaque rupture and erythrocyte-rich material extending both proximally and distally . |
| 14 | This is a self-contained group consisting of full-time members with skills in marketing , R & D , manufacturing , finance , etc . |
| 15 | Under the terms of this partnership , Parliament would confine itself to establishing a framework consisting of general principles , leaving it to the courts themselves to decide how these principles should apply in a given instance , and to the Court of Appeal to develop more detailed guidance where appropriate . |
| 16 | Medau Breathing Movement is an extension of the work consisting of certain positions and movements taught in a specific way to influence the flow of breathing . |
| 17 | In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all . |
| 18 | Best results are achieved by growing in a planting medium consisting of unwashed sand and clay and peat , or any other organic matter such as detritus . |
| 19 | The department offers a postgraduate Diploma in Physics , consisting of advanced course work as well as postgraduate research for MPhil and PhD degrees . |
| 20 | TO test this , Kinsey has analysed the results of one of the biggest surveys of its kind in Europe , consisting of carefully-monitored questions put to 3,500 young people from all walks of life in Edinburgh and the Lothians . |
| 21 | There were several partial carcases in the nest consisting of articulated legs of mammals and wings and limbs of birds . |
| 22 | In the previous year , 1977 , a group of linguistics including , , ( of Brown University ) , , and myself met in Oslo and founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English , an organization to develop and promote the use of computer corpora such as the LOB Corpus , the Brown Corpus , and the London-Lund Corpus ( this last consisting of spoken texts of the Survey of English Usage ) . |
| 23 | This small unit , consisting of highly-skilled soldiers recruited from within the brigade , jumped into Safra in the early hours of this morning . |
| 24 | A society consisting of educated people , like a society of healthy people , made economic sense . |
| 25 | Because this wind , consisting of charged particles such as electrons , is constantly changing , Cluster will use four spacecraft flying in formation . |
| 26 | VILLE-SUR-ARCE : Fine slopes for viticulture consisting of Kimmeridgian marls covered by Portlandian calcareous rocks broken up by frost in the glacial period , providing excellent surface drainage while deep roots can penetrate the marls for reserves of water . |
| 27 | This department , consisting of salaried solicitors employed by the Law Society with government funds , dealt with the matrimonial problems occasioned by the Second World War . |
| 28 | It is a mineralised breccia pipe in Cambrian sediments consisting of angular fragments veined and cemented by chalcopyrite , pyrite and quartz ( Allen and Easterbrook , 1978 ; MRP 29 ) . |
| 29 | The small fraction of the solar wind consisting of neutral atoms readily crosses the magnetopause into the magnetosphere . |
| 30 | A year later , US geologists found on a moraine in the Thiel Mountains two portions of a rare type of stony-iron meteorite , called a pallasite , consisting of individual crystals of olivine , ( Mg , Fe ) 2SiO4 , scattered through a matrix of metal . |