Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] of four " in BNC.

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1 The research consisted of four stages — the first to show us where we were before the campaign went on air , the second ( half way through the 8-week TV campaign ) and the third ( immediately after the campaign had finished ) to show what impact the advertising had .
2 The Administration Department consists of four divisions : Legal Services , Administrative Services , Estates Services and Personnel and Management Services .
3 Mr Powell emerged from a field of museum professionals assembled by a search committee consisting of four of the gallery 's five general trustees : President John R. Stevenson , Robert H. Smith , Ruth Carter Stevenson , and Alexander M. Laughlin .
4 Independence was to be assured by a National Broadcasting and Television Council consisting of four members appointed by the Sejm , two by the Senate and three by the President .
5 Chemotherapy consisted of four week cycles of intravenous leucovorin ( 200 mg/m/day ) followed by 5-fluorouracil ( 550 mg/m/day ) and cisplatin ( 20 mg/m/day ) , each drug being given on the first four days of the cycle .
6 Their range consists of four shampoos ( £3.90/150ml ) , a regular conditioner ( £4.90/150ml ) , intensive conditioner ( £5.40/50ml ) and pre-wash treatment ( £5.60/30ml ) .
7 The β -sheet with right-handed twist consists of four antiparallel β -strands and the helical face has two major antiparallel α -helices and a minor α helix .
8 Point 3 relates to lines such as the following , from Shakespeare 's " sonnet XXIII " : Such lines , Cable argues , show four rising degrees of stress ( on the boldened syllables ) , and such adjacent increase indicates , in his view , that the metre is foot-based , since the string in question consists of four syllables in which the even-numbered ones are stronger than their neighbours .
9 One , around the parish church , was Bishopstone proper ( with Throope ) , but the agglomeration of buildings I kilometre ( 2 mile ) away to the west consisted of four separate settlements .
10 The team consisted of four FTE social workers and a 1/3 FTE social work assistant ( with a part-time social work assistant post unfilled ) .
11 A haemoglobin molecule consists of four chains of amino acids twisted together .
12 The file consists of four cylinders , 004 ) 3 , and cylinder 01 is illustrated .
13 The Community consists of four chief institutions .
14 His fifth point consists of four main practical applications and he concludes by answering twenty arguments against conversion .
15 Anyone could be arrested and accused of communist sympathies ; such a person would be tried by a special court consisting of four judges from which no appeal was allowed .
16 The CAI consists of four modules :
17 The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani .
18 The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) .
19 The technique consists of four basic stages :
20 The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ( nAChR ) is an oligomeric transmembrane glycoprotein consisting of four homologous subunits in stoichiometry of α2 , β ( γ or ε ) .
21 A member of the commission writes of four main differences from the previous arrangements :
22 This method consists of four steps : ( 1 ) Pick colonies or plaques into microtitre dishes and grow overnight ; ( 2 ) Aliquot PCR mix with multi-channel pipette into PCR microtitre dish , load DNA using a 96-pin hedgehog device , and run PCR ; ( 3 ) Remove excess primer , nucleotides and low molecular weight truncated PCR fragments by one step precipitation of templates with polyethylene glycol ( PEG ) ; ( 4 ) Cycle sequence PCR products using e.g. dye-terminator or dye primer chemistry on the ABI 373A sequencer .
23 A complete cycle of excitation for the hybrid motor consists of four states and produces four steps of rotor movement .
24 According to the classical Hindu tradition , Hindu life consists of four main stages .
25 Situated on the Down platform , the accommodation consisted of four rooms including two waiting rooms with corner fireplaces and a booking office with an iron stove and pipe chimney while a wall clock , outside the booking office , faced the platform .
26 The league consisted of four leading competitions held over a period of three months at various venues in North Yorkshire on a 10 metres high Enterprises panel wall .
27 A complete excitation cycle consists of four steps , corresponding to excitation of each phase by each current polarity .
28 The study utilises a framework composed of four interrelated elements .
29 The system consists of four components , centred on the company 's previously-announced OpenServer 400 family of X400-based messaging servers .
30 The practice note consists of four principal sections .
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