Example sentences of "consisting of a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stage I sleep is defined in terms of the EEG and EOG records as consisting of a low voltage EEG with some slow activity , and occasional vertex sharp waves , and slow rolling eye movements ( see example . ) |
| 2 | A hybrid system consisting of a centralised computer index , and a variety of microforms used primarily to provide back-up copies of all information Items . |
| 3 | By the First World War , musical production and dissemination are coming to be concentrated in a new alliance consisting of a centralized publishing system ( in New York 's Tin Pan Alley and London 's Denmark Street ) , the quickly developing gramophone companies ( by 1910 dominated , world-wide , by Victor of the USA and the Gramophone Co. of Britain ) and , a little later , the new medium of radio ; by the late 1920s , we can add the movie industry as well . |
| 4 | The political/military coalition against Iraq , consisting of a cold war Nato axis and a cluster of militarily semi-detached comprador states , reflects the old order , not the new . |
| 5 | The furniture was meagre , consisting of a large deal desk , a single chair and a couple of tall stools . |
| 6 | A MK III was a double-ended collapsible boat , consisting of a stiff plywood bottom and hinged wooden gunwhale , connected by canvas sides . |
| 7 | Eventually , after further compromises to meet British objections about the public nature of the ministerial meetings , the foreign ministers of the Brussels states issued a communiqué on 29 January 1949 in favour of a Council of Europe ‘ consisting of a ministerial committee meeting in private and a consultative body meeting in public ’ . |
| 8 | The Mausoleum was a major structure commissioned by the Mausolus dynasty , consisting of a white marble building surmounted by a series of large sculptured figures and with extensive use of decorative sculpted friezes in the architecture . |