Example sentences of "consisting [adv] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Radio Moscow report of Feb. 26 noted that the situation had been aggravated by the absence of any Kazakh officers in a unit consisting mostly of indigenous servicemen . |
| 2 | The slope running down to the quarry-cliff was not steep , but its surface was very treacherous , consisting mostly of loose stones and shale , which were apt to slip under any movement . |
| 3 | Where a key is a long number , consisting perhaps of ten digits , but we only have 8000 records and hence need only to allocate 10 000 storage positions , we could use the last four digits of the key as a storage address . |
| 4 | Sensibly comparing two foods of a very similar nature , they monitored a group of people eating a ‘ meal ’ consisting entirely of wholemeal bread , which contains 8.5 per cent of dietary fibre , and compared them with a group eating a ‘ meal ’ of white bread , which contains only 2.7 per cent dietary fibre . |
| 5 | He made an immediate advance by growing the mould on a medium consisting only of simple salts and glucose , instead of the broth which Fleming had used . |
| 6 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |
| 7 | Among vertebrates , no mammals , and only a few domestic strains of birds , are parthenogenetic , but there are wild ‘ species ’ of lizards consisting only of parthenogenetic females . |
| 8 | The field of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination , hitherto consisting only of former Massachusetts senator Paul E. Tsongas and former mayor of Irvine , California , Larry Agran , grew substantially in September . |
| 9 | After a meal consisting largely of refined carbohydrate food the blood-sugar level goes up very quickly , which would seem to be a good thing in satisfying the appetite . |
| 10 | Whereas in ordinary completion tests the words for deletion are selected subjectively ( consisting largely of structural words in certain tests and key content words in other tests ) , in cloze tests the words are deleted systematically . |
| 11 | In consequence , the Board of Education appointed a committee consisting largely of English Association members to investigate and report on the possibility of practical steps in this direction . |
| 12 | Ahmeti 's new interim administration , consisting mainly of non-party technocrats in view of the failure of efforts to rebuild a broad coalition , was named on Dec. 14 and sworn in on Dec. 18 . |
| 13 | On hydrolysis , chitin yields acetic acid and glucosamine and is a high molecular weight polymer consisting mainly of anhydro-N-acetylglucosamine residues joined by B-1 , 4-linkages , though up to 10 per cent of the residues may be deacylated . |
| 14 | Many of its responsibilities are currently being handed over to Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) — independent companies , consisting mainly of local groups of employers , who will contract with the government to plan and provide training , and promote small businesses and self-employment , in their area . |
| 15 | But when the number of detenus returns to a more ‘ normal ’ level of 400–500 , consisting mainly of suspected drug smugglers and ‘ dacoits ’ rather than political activists , interest tends to fade . |
| 16 | For example , a diet consisting mainly of invertebrate prey produces compact but granular pellets , mammalian prey produces cohesive pellets bound together by skin and fur , and bird prey produces loose large pellets because of the feathers . |
| 17 | Consisting originally of 326 items , the collection was assembled by Thomas Coke , who acquired the majority of the drawings in Rome between 1714 and 1716 ; so they represent the work of artists most highly regarded in Italy at that time — dominant masters in Rome of the high Baroque . |
| 18 | In Britain , rock art was a major feature , consisting frequently of cup-and-ring marks . |
| 19 | A spatter cone or spatter ring consisting exclusively of welded cow-pats often builds up around the vent . |
| 20 | It has a strong community base , consisting exclusively of home-grown products , and a wide ranging programme of theatre , dance , classical and popular music , comedy , film and the visual arts . |
| 21 | The DEMOS ( Democratic Opposition of Slovenia ) coalition , consisting initially of six parties and elected in April 1990 [ see p. 37381 ] , had led Slovenia to independence . |
| 22 | Architecturally the buildings form an unusual and interesting group consisting primarily of two churches joined together ; the larger S. Luke and smaller church of the Virgin ( 226 and 228 ) . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ An orderly run-down will be set in hand over the next five years , leading to a smaller , more flexible stockpile consisting principally of ready-to-eat food rather than raw commodities . ’ |