Example sentences of "consisted of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their native land consisted of a central plain surrounded by mountains . |
| 2 | Each office in Scott 's design consisted of a central block , with parallel wings extending from the ends of the block to form a three-sided court . |
| 3 | It consisted of a cruciform church whose stone was hewn from hardened lava . |
| 4 | The treatment consisted of a full-body massage , with particular attention to her back ( the area either side of the spine is the gateway to the entire nervous system ) . |
| 5 | The regimen consisted of a liquid diet for 36 hours , followed by an absolute fast for a further 12 hours . |
| 6 | With the exception of the three islands ' authorities in Scotland , the system of local government in Britain following reorganisation in the 1970s consisted of a two-tier system . |
| 7 | The second placed designs by Atlas Architects of Amsterdam consisted of a simple sandstone needle designed deliberately to contrast with the glass bulk of the St Enoch Centre . |
| 8 | It consisted of a legal adviser , Stephano Burchi ; a geologist , Tony Sutcliffe ; and a civil engineer , Ter Mincassian . |
| 9 | The last phase of the Watergate scandal consisted of a prolonged battle between the President and those investigating the case over possession of these tapes . |
| 10 | During the experimental period , it consisted of a straight-forward selection of uninterrupted extracts — often one or two minutes in length — from speeches by both front and back-benchers , linked by a commentator , but with little political assessment . |
| 11 | Patients with colorectal tumours ( benign and malignant ) and inflammatory bowel disease underwent standard bowel preparation which consisted of a low residue diet for two days and picolax ( nordic pharmaceuticals , feltham , middlesex ) on the day before surgery . |
| 12 | It consisted of a week-long summer school , weekend courses devoted to pottery . |
| 13 | That at Wakerley consisted of a day-lined furnace set 2½ feet into the limestone bedrock . |
| 14 | CHA make it easy by providing walking guides for groups — our group consisted of a rich mix of walkers of all ages and nationalities . |
| 15 | This consisted of a graphic workspace and primitive GIS operations shown as icons which the user selected from a palette and assembled in the workspace . |
| 16 | The study population consisted of a representative sample of non-industrial civil servants in a diverse range of departments in London . |
| 17 | The practice consisted of a slow-motion exercise that never stopped . |
| 18 | Prior to buying the engineering companies , it consisted of a mixed bag of companies , including three hotels in the Peak District , Staffordshire and Lincoln , a company making artificial flowers and children 's hats , a children 's book publisher and a company that cleans and processes pig and sheep intestines into sausage casings . |
| 19 | There were at least four large Russian Factory ships just inside the Summer Isles , the rest consisted of a mixed bag of Polish , Bulgarian , and even Italian freezer trawlers , in all we counted more than thirty ships awaiting their turn to load mackerel from the Scottish purse netters . |
| 20 | To board this train at Loughton Wolverton bound , one had to be athletic , as the platform consisted of a raised boarding about six inches high , on the down fast line . |
| 21 | Experimental controls consisted of a similar procedure without the presence of cells . |
| 22 | The pottery consisted of a small flask , a bowl and two shards . |
| 23 | It consisted of a small group of people whose names were printed in a list pasted on the endpapers of the volumes . |
| 24 | It is said that initially it consisted of a small number of ex-convicts brought together and controlled by British intelligence . |
| 25 | This consisted of a small number of NCDAD approved courses , comprising a one-year Higher Diploma in Fine Art , Graphic Design , Textiles/Fashion or a two-year Higher Diploma in Interior or Industrial Design . |
| 26 | The house consisted of a small corner of an old , much-partitioned haveli . |
| 27 | Most of the town , however , consisted of a picturesque maze of narrow , rambling streets , lined with old-fashioned houses with steeply-pitching red-tiled roofs . |
| 28 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 29 | The apparatus consisted of a delicate torsion balance from which were hung masses made of the two materials under comparison ( e.g. 30 mg masses of gold and aluminium ) . |
| 30 | One of the dances consisted of a mimed battle between two men . |