Example sentences of "consist of " in BNC.

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1 In November , a Presidential Task Force on human rights was set up , consisting of senior figures close to President Premadasa .
2 Since the late 1970s management boards have been set up consisting of three diocesan nominees , including normally the parish priest , two parents , and the head teacher .
3 But a picture of the mind as consisting of atomic mental states causally interacting is not a million miles from the Humean view — a view of which Hume himself was the most insightful critic .
4 Head are offering three fantastic first prizes , consisting of a Ventoris tennis racquet , a pair of Ventora tennis shoes and a Head deluxe tennis thermo bag .
5 Castello is a wood in which the markings are usually very distinct , consisting of stripes of light and dark wood , varying in width and of a wavy character .
6 The original narrow–bodied Leyland/BREL Class 141 dmu consisting of Nos 55503/55523 approaches Heaton Lodge Junction , Mirfield with the 14.51 Leeds to Marsden train on 21 March 1987 .
7 A little mathematics shows that with a monochrome 4:3 70cm CRT one could just resolve a 625 line black and white stationary picture consisting of 4MHz dots using today 's European standards at the normal viewing distance .
8 POLYLINES is another useful device , consisting of an indefinite sequence of X/Y pairs to be interconnected by straight lines .
9 Applications can be written using the T1 software suite supplies consisting of a C compiler , assembler and linker .
10 These include the wavelet transform , which can give a measure of the fractal qualities of a given sound , and something called the granular synthesis model , which considers sound as consisting of quanta localised both in time and frequency .
11 In the following year another cable was laid , consisting of four copper wires 1.7mm in diameter , insulated with gutta percha and tarred hemp .
12 A new Atlantic cable was designed ( Fig. 2. ) consisting of seven wires of high-quality copper , insulated with four coats of gutta percha , the whole surrounded with hemp and armoured with ten iron bar-wires .
13 With the bulk of surgical patients consisting of urgent conditions , from cancers to vascular disease , Richard Wood , Professor of Surgery , has told Dr Grant that such surgery can not be halted .
14 Also drawn in charcoal were two other features of religious importance : a group of five-pointed stars and a mystical two-line formula , each consisting of all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet — the ultimate anagram which , when rearranged , could quite literally be used to express all human knowledge and all experience .
15 Last June 's vote led to the creationof a 17-strong block called the European Right , consisting of members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front from France , the Republicans from West Germany ( led by a former Waffen-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber ) , and a Belgian from the wilder shores of Flemish nationalism .
16 In July Mr Pettersson was convicted by a the crown court in a split decision where the majority , consisting of lay assessors , unanimously voted in favour of a life sentence .
17 He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ .
18 The top two , consisting of 570 outlets targeted towards ABC1s , will carry an expanded range of 225 to 300 wines chosen by the new buying team of Marcia Waters and Mark Brunel-Cohen .
19 However , there was one big kolkhoz consisting of 150 households only 20 versts from Roslavl' that was said to be too well satisfied with itself , and so did not welcome visits from the town .
20 On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective .
21 A War Cabinet , consisting of Mrs Thatcher , Whitelaw , Pym , Nott , and Cecil Parkinson , assisted by civil servants such as Sir Robert Armstrong , Sir Anthony Acland , and Sir Frank Cooper , along with Admiral Sir Terence Lewin of the Chiefs of Staff , directed operations , At this kind of uncomplicated executive command , the Prime Minister excelled : her instinct for isolated decision-making was now a strength , not a weakness .
22 ‘ Ritual , ’ Eliot wrote in 1923 , ‘ consisting of a set of repeated movements , is essentially a dance . ’
23 Following the report of the Finlay Committee , a sub-committee of the Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction Problems was appointed , consisting of Lord Jowitt ( Minister without Portfolio and Chairman ) , Sir Kingsley Wood ( Chancellor of the Exchequer ) , Sir Stafford Cripps ( Minister of Aircraft production ) , and Sir Archibald Sinclair ( Secretary of State for Air ) .
24 If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future .
25 The Brahmins who , thanks to the British , had been not merely a caste but a class , declined in economic status , and a new bourgeoisie appeared consisting of better-off farming families .
26 This has led to situations like that described in A Job Well Done ? by Helene Middleweek and Michael Ward , a report prepared on behalf of the Co-ordination Committee for the Welfare of Evacuees from Uganda , of a family consisting of mother , father and thirteen-year-old son , where neither of the parents spoke any English and the father was almost paralysed .
27 In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all .
28 Fish fried in suitable oil ( those oils consisting of mono-unsaturated or polyunsaturated fats are best )
29 This small unit , consisting of highly-skilled soldiers recruited from within the brigade , jumped into Safra in the early hours of this morning .
30 It appeared that the enemy force , consisting of two motor rife regiments ( the equivalent of a British brigade ) , plus a flank guard of a tank company , had halted seventeen kilometres to the north-west of the brigade 's current position , and that they were facing south-west .
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