Example sentences of "mainly consist of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responsibility for Tibbles was a free-floating affair , mainly consisting of whoever did n't want to feed her saying to whoever they thought should be feeding her , ‘ She 's your cat ! ’ |
| 2 | The majority of authorities relied on ad hoc arrangements when providing personal assistance , mainly consisting of utilising the home care service . |
| 3 | In a population mainly consisting of doves , the animals will nearly always play against doves , and ‘ hawk ’ will be favoured because its average pay-off is higher in these fights : W > W÷2 . |
| 4 | But now consider a population mainly consisting of hawks . |
| 5 | A further deposit of maps , plans and charts from Mr R. Quentin Stevenson , mainly consisting of material used by the Stevenson family in their civil engineering projects in Scotland , has added to the already significant number of maps from this source . |
| 6 | Our non-fusion polypeptide spanned VZV 140k codons 417 to 646 and mainly consisted of the highly conserved region 2 , designated on the basis of homology between the HSV-1 Vmw175 and the VZV 140k proteins ( 18 ) . |
| 7 | I 've got a big wardrobe at the moment but it mainly consists of shoes — I bought these boots from Read or Dead . ’ |
| 8 | The volumetric analysis covered in the chemical methods section is unnecessarily long because it mainly consists of acid-base and indicator theory that can be found in standard A-level textbooks . |
| 9 | Given that this calculation mainly consists of system savings foregone in the first year of Sizewell 's operation , less capital charges saved , the £60 million figure seems surprisingly high , given the limited value of system savings in the first year of operation . |
| 10 | The undertrial population , too , mainly consists of the most disadvantaged sections of society , who can not pay the sureties demanded for bail . |
| 11 | There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims . |
| 12 | Until recently , at A level " the evidence " has mainly consisted of historians ' work ; a text book could be taken as the whole truth . |