Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the more remote part of the Country Park the foundations remain of a signal station used during the Napoleonic wars as a look-out for the approach of ‘ Boney ’ — a real threat in those days . |
| 2 | Other apparent extensions of the Bell-Szekeres solution have been suggested by Gürses and Halilsoy ( 1982 ) in which the approaching electromagnetic waves consist of a sequence of steps . |
| 3 | Retrovirus virions consist of a capsid surrounded by an outer envelope , and within the capsid lies the nucleocapsid . |
| 4 | Most nursing skills consist of a number of chains or subtasks combined to make up a complex response pattern . |
| 5 | Family Groups consist of a network of small local groups mostly of mothers and young children , meeting regularly under the guidance of locally recruited group and play leaders . |
| 6 | Her descriptions tell of a village changing slowly to a motorcar age , and perhaps forecasts the future in references that smithies have been replaced by garages and advertisements for petrol from the ‘ golden pump ’ . |
| 7 | These codes consist of a string of binary numbers in the form of on-off states . |
| 8 | Case studies consist of a description of an event concerning a real life or simulated situation , usually in the form of a paragraph of text , a video , a picture or a role play exercise which is then followed by a series of instructions which prompt the student into analysing the situation presented , drawing conclusions and making decisions or suggested courses of action . |
| 9 | The large majority of one-parent families consist of a mother trying to cope without a partner . |
| 10 | Geographers speak of a rock deposited by the Ice Age perhaps hundreds of miles from its place of origin as an erratic boulder , and it often seems to me that that is how RE appears in the landscape of today 's schools . |
| 11 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 12 | Charges consist of a management fee of 0.75% a year . |
| 13 | Meals consist of a breakfast buffet and a three course dinner with a choice of main course . |
| 14 | Tribunals consist of a lawyer chairman , many of whom are full-time appointments , sitting with two lay members , one representing employers and one employees . |
| 15 | Commands consist of a channel address and pulse width information sent in a string of printable hexadecimal ASCII characters and terminated by a carriage return . |
| 16 | So you 've just got to work out some way that 'll make sense to you for remembering which way round they go and probably one good way is just write them out quite a few times think of a lot of words beginning with D. |
| 17 | The digesta text introduces the disposition as a legacy ; apart from this , the texts are in accord : the petitioners speak of a legacy , and the jurist refers to it as a trust . |
| 18 | Both sides consist of a majority of decent men , but the histrionic hotheadedness of the few seems incurable and will be eliminated only by their omission . |
| 19 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 20 | In this , the markings consist of a pattern of dark spots all of which look like the dark pupil of the fish 's eye . |
| 21 | SSATs consist of a lawyer chairman sitting with two lay members . |
| 22 | Typical commercial gasifier systems used to run engines consist of a reactor , where the gas is produced ; a gas cleaning and cooling system ; and a modified carburettor to feed gas and air into the engine . |
| 23 | Unconfirmed reports speak of a specimen reaching 30 ft ( 9 m ) in length but the longest authenticated measurement is 21 ft ( 6.5 m ) . |
| 24 | Variable parts consist of a base component and variable component , in this case the head and shank of a rivet , the variability being the shank length . |
| 25 | Essentially the recommendations consist of a combination of demand restraint within the USA , and a key component of this is a reduction in the federal government deficit , together with a moderated fall in the foreign exchange value of the US dollar in order to restrain import growth and boost exports ( the depreciation of the dollar would cheapen US exports and raise the price of imports ) . |
| 26 | The Garden 's computer facilities consist of a mixture of stand-alone and networked PCs . |
| 27 | Weaving tools consist of a knife , a beating comb and shears . |
| 28 | Yet in their intensity , their beauty and their perfection , Werner Bischof 's photographs speak of a life that was at all times deeply considered and lived to the full . |
| 29 | Crystallizable polymers consist of a mass of tiny crystals , usually mis-oriented with respect to one another and embedded in non-crystalline material . |