What is "consisted in"

Usage examples of "consisted in".

This consisted in fixing two minute triangles of thin paper, about 1/20 inch in height, to the two ends of the attached glass filament.

The method of passing from one side of the cube to another is easily understood, but, of course, the difficulty consisted in finding the proper points of entry and exit on each board, the order in which the different boards should be taken, and in getting arrangements that would comply with the required conditions.

And then he found an interior which consisted in part of small alcoved tables, at one of which two men sat and another at which a single man sat.

He gazed into each store front he passed& And then he found an interior which consisted in part of small alcoved tables, at one of which two men sat and another at which a single man sat.

But it is the twenty-first century and, endless Bogart reruns notwithstanding, most of my work consisted in sitting at my office console and using it to subvert the privacy laws of various states and countriesfinding out embarrassing things about people, so other people can divorce them or fire them or get a piece of the slickery.

This consisted in digging out a quarter-kilo brick of field ration, eleven hundred calories of yeast protein, fat, starch, and glucose, plus trace requirements.

W-M Corporation's stated legal business consisted in turning out wrought-iron staircases, railings, fireplaces, and ornaments for new apartment buildings, all on a mass basis, from standard designs.

Then, for the first time, it was discovered that for more than five years he had been conniving at a system of forgery, to the amount of two millions of dollars: the forgery consisted in putting to his bills the names of responsible parties as indorsers, that they might be more current.

Katz said, settling in to bargain with the relish of a person whose life's work consisted in working on a profit margin that changed from customer to customer.

He well knew that this pleasure consisted in carrying Canaris away to her own domain.