Example sentences of "consists of [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Its diet consists of small fish and shrimps .
32 To create an interesting decorative effect with mirrors , you may like to consider mirror mosaic , which consists of small squares of mirror held in place on a fabric backing .
33 A large percentage of the hotel industry consists of small or medium-sized hotels where manual systems are still operated .
34 The large looms needed to make carpet-size items are difficult to transport , and so the vast majority of their output consists of small and medium-size rugs and a range of bags and other tribal artifacts .
35 This consists of small beads ( a litre has an R.R.P. of £13.95 — 21 and 51 also available ) Which must be washed ( when they may generate some heat ) then placed in one of the last sections of the filter .
36 Of the remaining ancient woodland , over 80 per cent consists of small copses of less than 50 acres .
37 His jokeless act consists of long , arcanely-enunciated , pause-dotted ruminations on his mom 's new boyfriend ( ‘ … some guy that sits around my mom 's pool and sponges off her .
38 In other words , the history of any one part of the earth , like the life of a soldier , consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror .
39 It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice .
40 Then the pattern actually adopted consists of long parallel rolls ; i.e. the single wavenumber pattern that it resembles may be taken as having ( cf. ( 22.7 ) )
41 Much of their music was originally intended for plays or Court masques ; a great deal of it consists of undistinguished melodic declamation , 56 and even the simpler tuneful airs in which they are happiest seldom if ever match the poems of Donne and Herrick , Suckling and Carew , which they set .
42 Secondly , the communication between knowledge sources ( levels of units ) consists of fixed connections in TRACE II , while in Hearsay-II the system 's KSs can easily be reconfigured .
43 Wood , as we have said , consists of closed tubes which , in the living tree are partly full of water , or rather sap .
44 It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world .
45 The transitional zone in Burgess ' model , consists of mixed and changing land-use , with terrace housing being encroached upon by light industry .
46 The outer arm comb consists of stout spinelets , the inner comb of smaller ones .
47 As Repetto ( 1988b ) has pointed out , much of the US national forest consists of old-growth timber and is often in less accessible areas which contrasts with many privately owned forests where productivity is higher and which are more accessible .
48 This guy consists of sheer power .
49 This consists of concentric circles defining the limits of different groups of housing ( see fig 6 ) .
50 Consists of outer coat and under coat .
51 The weft , which makes up 60% of the material , consists of pure cotton thread , while the warp , the other 40% , is nylon thread .
52 If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One .
53 An ASCII file consists of pure text ; letters or numeric characters alone .
54 It will be humbled , and may even find that the EC monetary committee — which consists of mere central-bank and finance-ministry officials — will usurp its preparatory role for meetings of finance ministers .
55 The kind of knowledge it can hold consists of preferred settings of all its visible nodes .
56 However , because the sampling frame consists of private households only , the survey does not cover elderly people in institutional care — for example , those living in old people 's homes and those who have been in hospital for more than six months .
57 A single-ply coated roofing membrane , Sarnafil consists of selected polymers applied as liquids to a carrier material ( glass fibre or polyester ) , which are fused together in a gelation process .
58 This tokamak consists of D-shaped magnets forming a doughnut 4 metres high and 2.5 metres across .
59 His personal habits are such that his chief following consists of unpaid tradesmen … .
60 Another , which consists of failed Social Democrats who now wish to clone the Labour Party in David Owen 's image , have to be treated as we have treated other entryists .
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