Example sentences of "[conj] consist of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each affix is obligatorily attached to a stem containing or consisting of an open set item : dis-obey , un-popular , central-ise , dismount-ed , long-er , etc . |
| 2 | But equally they may include or consist of creating a fantasy world or series of events or actions , or indeed creatures , higher or lower forms of life , so that disbelief is temporarily suspended , and the fantasy seems like a different kind of reality , often momentarily preferable to the spectator 's actual experience . |
| 3 | Generally rejuvenation terraces are cut into the solid rock or consist of a rock bench veneered with a comparatively small thickness of alluvium . |
| 4 | It hardly can be said to possess discrete ‘ generations ’ , or to consist of discrete ‘ organisms ’ , at all . |
| 5 | As we have seen , a public company is no longer permitted to have a charge or lien on its shares except ( a ) when the shares are not fully paid and the charge or lien is for the amount payable on the shares , or ( b ) the ordinary business of the company includes the lending of money or consists of the provision of hire-purchase finance and the charge arises in the course of a transaction in the ordinary course of its business . |
| 6 | If the plan is small scale or consists of an extract of the Ordnance Survey map it is suggested that the verbal description should prevail . |
| 7 | A section of printed ephemera with its own special charm is that consisting of the small mementoes which a number of printing houses struck off to amuse and honour visitors . |
| 8 | brand names that consist of common words ; for example Crest , Tube Investments , and companies known by two or more names ; for example GPO , British Telecom . |
| 9 | Integrins are heterodymers that consist of non-covalently bonded α and Β chains , with the latter stabilised by interchain disulphide bonding . |
| 10 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 11 | In effect , the inspectorate proposed a core that consisted of English , mathematics , religious education , physical education , modern languages , ‘ arts and applied crafts ’ , history , and science subjects . |
| 12 | The floor and ceiling were flat , and the walls were corrugated , except on the side that consisted of the canvas covering of the back of the wagon . |
| 13 | The National Foodstuffs Commission , replacing SAM , has been set up to implement government strategy that consists of price supports for basic food production , special incentives to producers of priority foodstuffs , the phasing out of subsidies for non-priority foodstuffs and a plan to tie retail prices of basic foods to increases in the national minimum wage . |
| 14 | This solution , however , is not suitable for a crossing that consists of one simple span supported at the ends . |
| 15 | For a garment that consists of one or more pieces to be knitted at different tensions , a separate file is needed for each tension . |
| 16 | In addition to an absorbing interpretation of Winterreise , which comprises the second CD , we have a strange mélange on the first disc that consists of some of the songs arranged for viola and piano , some for piano alone , and some of the poems merely being read by Peter Härtling , who ends the disc with a 12-minute Epilogue , discoursing on Müller 's life . |
| 17 | Consider the typical structure of a news broadcast which opens with the ‘ headlines ’ — a set of summary statements — which are followed by a news item that consists of an expansion and repetition of the first headline , in which is embedded a comment from ‘ our man on the spot ’ that recapitulates the main points again , then , at the end of the broadcast , there is a repetition of the set of headlines . |
| 18 | It is quite clear that most Canadian and American graduates speak perfect English , and it seems rather pointless to expect them to take an examination that consists of a test of English and of basic medical knowledge that they already have . |
| 19 | HOUSEHOLD — A socio-economic unit that consists of persons who share the same living quarters and at least one principal meal . |
| 20 | According to T-G analysis , it is a sentence ( S ) that consists of a noun phrase ( NP ) followed by a verb phrase ( VP ) ; in turn , the NP consists of a determiner ( T ) and a noun ( N ) ; the VP consists of a transitive verb ( Vt ) and a noun phrase ( NP ) and this last NP consists of a determiner and a noun . |
| 21 | Similarly , in the Philippine language Samal , we have a four way distinction based on four kinds of participant role : ( i ) close to speaker , ( ii ) close to addressee , ( iii ) close to audience ( other members of Conversational group ) , ( iv ) close to persons present but outside the COnversational group that consists of speaker , addressee(s) and audience . |
| 22 | A methodology that consists of the application of successive linguistic frameworks as an interpretative grid over literary texts makes hollow claims to definitiveness . |
| 23 | Some companies will transfer from the Third market to the USM , some will go to the over-the-counter market ( OTC ) , which is an informal market that consists of trading in small business shares by a group of brokers and licensed dealers to the public . |
| 24 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 25 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 26 | Among the highlights of the two sales , and selling well above its £10,000–15,000 estimate at Christie 's was a Sevres soup plate from the Catherine II service , ordered in 1776 and consisting of 797 pieces of which seventy-two were soup-plates . |
| 27 | Our equipment , brought solely for a ‘ recce ’ and consisting of a seven mm rope and two ice screws , suddenly seemed a little inadequate . |
| 28 | Chaired by the head of English , and consisting of the librarian and heads of all departments or their representatives , its terms of reference were to make recommendations to the head on the best ways to spend the money , to formulate a project proposal , and to oversee all subsequent matters of library policy . |
| 29 | There is overwhelming evidence from the PEP survey to show that local concentrations of the racial minority groups are associated with poor housing , poor jobs and low incomes , and among Asians with large and often extended families with a high ratio of dependants to wage earners and consisting of people who speak little or no English . |
| 30 | Stamford , one of Hoskins ' ‘ open-field ’ towns , is actually made up of a Danish burgh , founded in 877 on the north side of the River Welland and consisting of a roughly rectangular block bisected by the east-west High Street , and an English burgh to the south of the river founded by King Edward in 918 , and consisting of a neat rectangular area bisected by the north-south St Martins High Street . |