Example sentences of "consists [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 7 This suit is not severely masculine — it consists of a shirt , tie and pale yellow jacket with fancy , scalloped lapels , and so could be considered merely a fashionable , feminine version of masculine dress .
2 In British and North American English this often consists of a pre-sequence which signals impending closure , echoed by the other participant , followed by farewells , like this :
3 Further , assume that the map consists of a sheet of neurones , with particular neurones corresponding to particular places , the pattern being geometrically similar to the environment being mapped .
4 It consists of a sheet for each day which has numerous analysis columns — the headings of these will depend on the requirements of the hotel .
5 That is here , at this cinema and er usually consists of a film show and erm er presentation and then of a buffet lunch .
6 Storage consists of a 120Mb Quantum Pro-Drive IDE drive .
7 Majestically surrounded by beautiful parkland , the old abbey consists of a church , chapter house , cloisters , refectory and other associated accommodation .
8 This month 's prize consists of a 24″ × 20″ × 12″ tank , with a splendid cabinet type stand and matching hood , from Aquariums , Cabinets and Hoods .
9 This consists of a kernel routine and a collection of routines written in either PL/1 or REXX which effect the commands issued by the lexicographer .
10 In most areas the continental crust consists of a thirty-kilometre thick slab of such rocks , but under high mountain ranges it is fifty or more kilometres thick .
11 The west wing , where spacious living quarters should have been sited , consists of a bath-suite , dining room and kitchen , while the north wing has a large bath-suite and a long range of rooms , most of them quite small , all entered from a corridor .
12 It is quite clear that most Canadian and American graduates speak perfect English , and it seems rather pointless to expect them to take an examination that consists of a test of English and of basic medical knowledge that they already have .
13 Inside , the upper part consists of a hall 35 by 14 feet , with a rectangular tribune at each end divided from the hall by double arcades — good examples of stilted arches — and mixed piers and columns .
14 The Health and Safety Agency ( established under Article 12 ) consists of a Chairman and not less than six nor more than nine other members .
15 A typical CSC workstation consists of a computer with a microphone and video camera .
16 The package consists of a work-book and a data-set which , used together , will enable the researcher to follow worked examples for which each stage of the analysis is explained .
17 For the purposes of the City Code , these include contracts or arrangements where the consideration consists of a debt instrument which can be redeemed in less than three years .
18 Each node consists of a state of the original task 's search , and a list of operators which can be applied to this state .
19 A croft consists of a croft house ( usually provided by the occupier ) and a small plot of land ( always rented ) .
20 The Drayton Drain Easy kit consists of a stopper which fits into the cold feed pipe outlet of a cistern and a plug which fits over the end of the open vent pipe to allow , say , a radiator to be removed from a central heating system without draining down the whole central heating system , which could well mean losing all your corrosion inhibitor .
21 The legislature consists of a Chamber of Deputies of 254 members elected directly for four-year terms with half of the seats renewable every two years , and a 46-member Senate nominated by the legislatures of each of the 23 provinces for nine-year terms with one-third of the seats renewable every three years .
22 Rather , it consists of a culture whereby discoveries are submitted to peer discussion and to verification or falsification by others working in the same field .
23 The advantage they have over individuals is that , although each practice only contains a part of the complex phenomenon which is society , each one is a ‘ whole ’ in the sense that it consists of a variety of different kinds of parts , all of which are interrelated .
24 The training set consists of a variety of initial positions of the truck .
25 In brief , filtering consists of a monitoring for novelty by a match — mismatch comparison with expected values based on physiological norms and established knowledge ( see further in Chapter 9 ) .
26 The machinery of negotiation consists of a hierarchy of joint committees at workplace , regional and national levels .
27 One of these is called the thermal tide and consists of a flow from the region beneath the Sun to the opposite side of the planet .
28 The Ventral Sympathetic Nervous System ( Fig. 64 ) , when typically developed ( Zawarsin , 1924 ) , consists of a pair of transverse nerves associated with each ganglion of the ventral nerve-cord ; each pair is connected with the ganglion preceding it by a median longitudinal nerve .
29 Hence , an operation in this task 's search space consists of a pair of play operations .
30 An equilibrium consists of a pair of strategies and assessments , which result from the application of Bayesian revision of B t 's priors to the strategy and the observable data , such that
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