Example sentences of "[was/were] composed of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |
| 2 | These annual Councils normally lasted for three days and were composed of official sermons , addresses and conferences on various topics . |
| 3 | A strange finding was that the rate was the same for all the ‘ mixed ’ molecules , regardless of what ‘ unusual ’ oxygen isotope they were composed of . |
| 4 | They escaped the reaction of state authority , unlike the radicals of 1793–4 , because they did not pose a direct constitutional challenge , were composed of representatives primarily of the provincial , nonconformist middle and business classes and met in a political context judged less threatening by the authorities . |
| 5 | All along they were also aware that brains were composed of living cells that were active in non-electrical ways as well , but until recently the techniques for looking at this other activity were not available . |
| 6 | The members of this group changed regularly , and were composed of those who had done well on this or that physical test . |
| 7 | Defenders of a traditional cosmology simply could not allow that the earth was made from the same materials as the planets , for the latter were composed of a fifth element not found in the corruptible , sublunar world . |
| 8 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 9 | Our original vector is then made up of these constituent vectors just as our quantum mechanical states were composed of combinations of other states . |
| 10 | … we attended at the School on Monday the 17th [ July , 1833 ] and found that it was divided into six classes , the first being composed of three boys only whose study was the Classics , the second of about 20 who were instructed in the Latin Grammar , and the remaining four classes were composed of boys whose education was confined to Reading , Writing , Arithmetic , and English Grammar , in which instruction the boys in the two senior classes also participated . " |
| 11 | NILTs were composed of a chairman and two members . |
| 12 | They were composed of three members : a chairman and two members , one a representative of workers , the other drawn from a panel of persons appearing ‘ to have knowledge or experience of conditions in the area to which the panel relates and of the problems of people living on low incomes ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed , such an imbalance between particles and antiparticles is yet another a priori condition for our existence , for if the solar system were composed of an equal mixture of particles and antiparticles , they would all annihilate each other and leave just radiation . |
| 14 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 15 | Because er I knew the area very well , I was er we had two committees which were composed of two counties , we had the Priory Committee th that was a home at Selkirk , a children 's home , and we had in cooperation with Berwickshire , Berwickshire and Selkirkshire were the owners of the Priory children 's home . |
| 16 | Although light is made up of waves , Planck 's quantum hypothesis tells us that in some ways it behaves as if it were composed of particles : it can be emitted or absorbed only in packets , or quanta . |
| 17 | Of 133 battalions of infantry in the Spanish army in 1751 twenty-eight were composed of foreigners ; and it was seriously proposed in that year to raise twenty more abroad . |
| 18 | These stringers were composed of organic matter , principally sea grasses . |
| 19 | All Districts were composed of either five or four burghs , and in the case of those with four , an element of chance as to who was elected frequently arose . |
| 20 | The councils were composed of municipal and community representatives . |
| 21 | As the benches were composed of various judges there were no settled places for their courts . |
| 22 | For long chains , co-operative motion can not be expected to extend along the entire length , and the polymer tends to act as if it were composed of a series of interconnected , but independent , kinetic units . |
| 23 | The inclusions were cytoplasmic , eccentric to and sometimes partly surrounding the nucleus , and were composed of finely granular pale material which seemed to retract from the cell membrane , leaving a partial clear zone between membrane and inclusion . |
| 24 | When this body , which was composed of an independent chairman and two representatives from both sides , eventually reported it suggested that there should be no change in conditions and wages in the industry . |
| 25 | In November of the following year , 1892 , the first ‘ Free Church Congress ’ met in Manchester and was composed of personal delegates . |
| 26 | In the District , and in contrast to the national trend , Tutorial Classes virtually doubled between 1925 and 1931 — from thirteen to twenty-five and their membership was composed of about one-third of students from manual occupations . |
| 27 | The new committee was composed of equal representation of the University and the WEA . |
| 28 | Jurassic reef coral , Stylina alveolata This massive coral is now composed of calcite It has been recrystallized , because in life it was composed of the mineral aragonite — chemically the same as calcite , but with a different crystal structure . |
| 29 | Although he defines his terms carefully , Hecht is still somewhat confusing when he writes : ‘ The servant class , then , was composed of recruits from social levels as diverse as the gentry and the rural proletariat … |
| 30 | The Delegation was composed of seven women : Margarita Papandreou ( Women for Mutual Security , and Global Co-ordinator of the Delegation ) ; myself — Nawal El Saadawi ( writer , medical doctor and President of the Arab Women 's Solidarity Association ) ; Fatheya Seoudi ( Women 's Centre , Jordan ) ; Joan Drake ( Institute of Policy Studies in Washington and Madrea , Latin America ) ; Maude Barlow ( Voice of Women — Canada , Women World Parliamentarians for Peace ) ; Flora Abrachmanova ( World Democratic Federation of Women ) and Kay Kamp ( Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom ) . |