Example sentences of "[vb -s] of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He examines their foundation , their funding , their social constituency , and their organizational structure in detail , and in the process disposes of a number of myths and conventional wisdoms . |
| 2 | Further , assume that the map consists of a sheet of neurones , with particular neurones corresponding to particular places , the pattern being geometrically similar to the environment being mapped . |
| 3 | The legislature consists of a Chamber of Deputies of 254 members elected directly for four-year terms with half of the seats renewable every two years , and a 46-member Senate nominated by the legislatures of each of the 23 provinces for nine-year terms with one-third of the seats renewable every three years . |
| 4 | An equilibrium consists of a pair of strategies and assessments , which result from the application of Bayesian revision of B t 's priors to the strategy and the observable data , such that |
| 5 | Each lamella consists of a pair of membranes which at certain points are interspaced by a third membrane , the GRANAL REGION of the chloroplast . |
| 6 | New Mill consists of a straggle of houses following the course of the lane and a stream . |
| 7 | Part of the form consists of a forecast of budgets for three years ahead . |
| 8 | This consists of a battery of pigments ( containing iron ) and other substances which are reduced by the addition of hydrogen and re-oxidised by its removal . |
| 9 | Because our sample consists of a cohort of individuals , calendar time effects can not be distinguished from duration effects . |
| 10 | This consists of a collection of programs concerned with transferring data between databases and associated housekeeping and security tasks . |
| 11 | Used strictly whether in reference to a household , a corporation or a government , an economy consists of a set of activities by which scarce means are allocated to specific ends . |
| 12 | The context consists of a set of elements some of which will be sampled along with elements of the target stimulus on each exposure . |
| 13 | This consists of a set of rules expressing the author 's intention that readers construct a discourse situation taking place in a non-actual reference world , and involving a " substitute speaker " and a " substitute hearer " ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 14 | His data consists of a set of objects called ‘ the well-formed sentences of a language ’ , which can exist independently of any individual speaker of that language . |
| 15 | His model consists of a set of hypotheses . |
| 16 | Rosenau 's ‘ pre-theory ’ consists of a set of definitions of the sources of foreign policy , three measures of the type of state ( size , economic development , and political system ) and two analytical dimensions ( issue areas and permeability ) , which together define a matrix for investigating foreign policy . |
| 17 | It consists of a set of vertices , which may be thought of as marking off temporal units along the x axis , and a set of edges linking these vertices . |
| 18 | One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade . |
| 19 | For the simple forms of interaction of radiation or particles with molecular vibrations , the quantum numbers change only by ±1 , and so the vibrational spectrum consists of a set of signals at frequencies given by |
| 20 | Where a firm consists of a group of companies , knowledge possessed by one company within the group will not be attributed to another group company , as it is a clear principle of company law that companies are separate legal entities . |
| 21 | The parade consists of a procession of floats [ many of which are transported on Wood Group Offshore lorries ] , bands and entertainers which proceeds down Union Street to the Beach Boulevard . |
| 22 | A strategy for player A consists of a sequence of functions , which selects a value for every possible history . |
| 23 | In general , the full analysis of a set of data consists of a sequence of tasks from data validation , through the exploratory production of graphs and summary statistics to more complex techniques of estimation and inference . |
| 24 | The equipment consists of a number of machines linked together in a network . |
| 25 | Problem solving/minimisation is a highly iterative process and consists of a number of stages from problem sensed to problem overcome . |
| 26 | In theory , assuming that a project consists of a number of stages , lead time can be shortened in two ways : ( 1 ) overlapping upstream and downstream engineering activities on the critical path ; and/or ( 2 ) shortening each step on the critical path . |
| 27 | In its simplest form , this consists of a number of wires ; on each wire is a bead that can be put in one of two positions . |
| 28 | Somalia consists of a number of areas each of which is dominated by a different tribal group or clan . |
| 29 | Each feature of a conventional topographic or thematic map is stored separately in a cartographic database , which consists of a number of files . |
| 30 | Thus a LECTURER gives a number of MODULES and a COURSE consists of a number of MODULES . |