Example sentences of "[conj] it consists of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wedge rapidly decreases to a thickness of 3 m towards the basin centre where it consists of darker , millimetre-bedded carbonate mudstones , that were probably deposited in a basin plain environment . |
| 2 | The theory , as eventually set forth ( 1868 ) , was constituted by two theses : that the generative material comes from all over the parent body or bodies , and that it consists of minute ‘ gemmules ’ budded off from every part . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Both Kelsen and Aquinas acknowledge the role of determination and subsumption and both regard positive law as normative in the sense that it consists of precepts intimating how men ought to behave under particular circumstances . |
| 5 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 6 | It is no improvement merely to add a label , saying — taking an example at random — that left for Scotland yesterday morning is a verb phrase if by that we simply mean that it consists of a certain sequence of word classes recognized as frequently occurring . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Rewrite the extract on p. 77 beginning " Since Etherege … " , so that it consists of several short sentences . |
| 8 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
| 9 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 10 | ‘ More Than One Photography ’ ( on at the museum until 9 August ) is the result of his efforts and it consists of about sixty works by artists of all disciplines ( including ‘ pure ’ photographers who present their work non-traditionally ) . |
| 11 | This is often referred to as prudential regulation and it consists of setting down standards in respect of such matters as the capital reserves which have to be maintained by banks . |
| 12 | Its molecular weight is about 95000 Daltons and it consists of two subunits : a larger alpha subunit with several membrane spanning domains and a smaller beta subunit . |
| 13 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
| 14 | Moreover , we do not wish to give the impression that the cello and bass always work in double harness : on the contrary , they can be used independently to a quite large extent , though discretion and careful thought are very necessary in this matter , since the basses when used alone tend to sound rather dry , and if their part lies low and is far removed in pitch from the rest of the harmony it is too indeterminate in pitch to give satisfactory support unless it consists of a sustained or better ( since the bow is short ) a reiterated pedal note . |
| 15 | It has never lost an artist from its record label , supposedly because it consists of many small and friendly individual companies . |
| 16 | Bone is normally strong because it consists of a lattice-work of collagen fibres with calcium , the chalk-like material , in the gaps . |
| 17 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 18 | On the other hand , a tax that exempts all or part of Β ( e.g. , because it consists of capital gains ) leads to an increase in inequality . |
| 19 | They assert that though their ‘ non decision-making situation ’ ( ‘ preventing certain grievances from developing into full fledged issues ’ ) is not observable , being a non-event , nevertheless , the non-decision-making process is indeed observable since it consists of the mobilisation of bias around a latent issue , both of which are discernible . |
| 20 | the idea that every form of avoidance of expenditure quite indifferently of whether it consists of really wasteful expenditure or of a capital investment in developing the nation 's productive resources , is alike ‘ economy ’ … . |
| 21 | The Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies is closely tied to the LL.M. and M.Sc. , although it can stand as an independent qualification when it consists of study and examination in three courses selected from the LL.M or M.Sc. |
| 22 | What the hell is the midfield formation anyway when it consists of Rocky , Fairclough , Macca and Speed ? |
| 23 | When lodging the papers with your application for first registration of title on behalf of a buyer remember that the abstract must be marked as examined , even though it consists of an epitome of title and photo-copies of documents . |
| 24 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 25 | Apart from this it has little to recommend it , as it consists of a chain of dim stars extending from near the head of Cetus into the region south of the Square of Pegasus . |
| 26 | The total amount paid decreases over time , as it consists of a constant principle repayment plus interest on the outstanding principle . |