Example sentences of "[adv] consisted [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country . |
| 2 | But a course which only consisted of getting the student on to the inside of one or more disciplines would not count as a course of higher education ; it would merely be a training in those disciplines . |
| 3 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 4 | The gold coinage of the period was suffering a considerable debasement ( whereby the alloy progressively consisted of less gold and more silver ) , and the metal analysis of the royal pieces has allowed the stages of this debasement to be dated . |
| 5 | The sessions largely consisted of assurances from DEC of its continued commitment to the OSF/1 operating system on the MIPS line , in the face of surprisingly strong customer reaction to the news of DEC 's recent pronouncements that it would only offer OSF/1 for Alpha ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 6 | It was silent with regard to Soviet Moldavia ( which largely consisted of the former Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and North Bukovina annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , but stipulated respect for existing borders [ see also p. 38306 ] . |
| 7 | Measures to correct this imbalance largely consisted of a manipulation of interest rates upwards in order to take the steam out of the economy and stem consumer spending ( largely on imported consumer durables ) . |
| 8 | The study population thus consisted of 27 patients aged from nine to 69 months . |
| 9 | The ground plan normally consisted of three main rooms , the baggage room and the waiting-room at each end , with the office between , usually with a bay window projecting on to the platform to afford the station agent a view up and down the tracks . |
| 10 | Even with the inclusion of additional primary and secondary schools and of the middle schools , the total sample eventually consisted of only 716 teachers , instead of the intended 800 . |
| 11 | The systems of communication of our primate ancestors presumably consisted of words and short sentences ( but what I have to say would hold even if only gestural sequences were involved ) . |
| 12 | They mostly consisted of Camberwell students . |
| 13 | Her teaching mostly consisted of falling asleep while we children fought each other , but Mr Wopsle 's young cousin , Biddy , tried to keep us under control and teach us to read , write and count . |
| 14 | The briefing , however , mostly consisted of Mortimer 's dividing the force into groups and assigning them positions to take up in the scrub around the cemetery , which was illustrated by a simple chalk sketch Petion had done on a blackboard . |
| 15 | Nietzsche 's varied contributions included poems , essays oil historiography and discussions of the medieval Nibelungen saga , but mostly consisted of musical compositions , an indication of his predominant artistic interest at the time . |
| 16 | The breeding population was always small , and from 1949 onward consisted of only one or two pairs . |
| 17 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 18 | Written excavation records once consisted of observations written down in a notebook , but nowadays most archaeologists use printed forms , or even a series of forms , which are filled in to record the evidence not covered by the drawn and photographic records . |
| 19 | The main task is to establish the nature of the tragic chorus , since it is clear from the ancient tradition that tragedy originated in the chorus and once consisted of nothing but the chorus . |
| 20 | Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons . |
| 21 | If their staple diet still consisted of hydroponically grown vegetables , these were deliciously spiced and sauced — a far more piquant diet than the recycled synthfood that was the lot of the majority of most populations on crowded worlds . |
| 22 | Apart from Summerchild and a clerical assistant , the Unit at the last count still consisted of one single member , Serafin herself . |
| 23 | However , two millworkers ' cottages , that formerly consisted of three storeys , each of a single room , stand close by , having been converted in the late '50s . |
| 24 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 25 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 26 | Hastings ' contribution more probably consisted of stirring up others by articulating anxieties about the future role of the Woodvilles and , perhaps , by canvassing the possibility of a protector as a viable alternative . |
| 27 | Hastings ' contribution more probably consisted of stirring up others by articulating anxieties about the future role of the Woodvilles and , perhaps , by canvassing the possibility of a protector as a viable alternative . |
| 28 | Our non-fusion polypeptide spanned VZV 140k codons 417 to 646 and mainly consisted of the highly conserved region 2 , designated on the basis of homology between the HSV-1 Vmw175 and the VZV 140k proteins ( 18 ) . |
| 29 | After much thought , she had concluded that Western tastes meant toasted sandwiches , so every meal now consisted of toasted sandwiches . |
| 30 | The remaining lump now consisted of the crankcase , blacks , heads , inlet manifolds and fuel trunk . |