Example sentences of "could consist " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 2 | ( These are assumptions : a ‘ map ’ could consist of a list of places , each with a map reference . ) |
| 3 | Objectives ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) could consist of checks after a preliminary period of revision or practice carried out by the student on her own . |
| 4 | I wondered whom that could consist of , perhaps.her snob circle ? |
| 5 | ( This could consist of money , special diet , medical expenses or admission to the workhouse because there was a doctor there . ) |
| 6 | As a regiment can have two detachments this means it could consist of , for example , the twenty men who compose the regiment plus two detachments each of ten men . |
| 7 | The service , Mr. Park argued , could either consist in the grant of a sub-licence which enabled the operator to do in Vancouver what he could not otherwise lawfully do or could consist in the refraining by the taxpayer from stopping the grantee doing what he could otherwise be stopped from doing . |
| 8 | Ornamental herbs for the terrace could consist of mixtures of catmint , old-fashioned marigolds ( calendula species ) , the Florentine iris , jasmine , wallflowers , basil — the purple-leaved kind — Rosa gallica officinalis , blue-leaved rue , and the ever-greens referred to above . |
| 9 | The collection could consist entirely of culinary kinds ; the health-giving species can lead to a very large collection , as four , five or six different plants may be needed to make up a prescription . |
| 10 | The surface of Mercury , like that of the Moon , could consist largely of fragmented silicates , even to the point of dust . |