The phrase "already consisted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something was made up of certain elements or components at a previous time.
Example: "The team already consisted of experienced professionals before the new members joined."
Alternatives: "had already been made up of" or "was already composed of".
The group already consisted of 20 companies when it was taken over from BMW.
After all, the brain already consisted of two hemispheres linked by a dense bridge of neurons.
Resources from the United States Navy were marshaled to supplement an operation that already consisted of more than 1,000 people and scores of vessels and aircraft.
In imitation of the characters that already consisted of several components an element was added for each meaning of a character to distinguish words from each other.
There, he met Lydia Reynolds, who, in 1883, joined the Leno family theatre company, which already consisted of his parents, Danvers and Leno.
However, diffuse deposits were absent from ARTE10 brains with low plaque burden or with beginning plaque deposition, where even the earliest and smallest detectable Aβ deposits already consisted of mature, congophilic amyloid (Fig. 1b+d, Fig. S4).
(Two years ago the company added Champ Hats to a stable already consisting of Cavanagh, Knox & Dobbs).
The Cnidaria (in 1859 already consisting of nearly 3000 specimens) was first arranged by A.E. Verrill (1861-1864).
I have found that when directors narrow the initial pool of candidates (which already consists principally of top executives they already know), they try to resolve their conflicting requirements by focusing on candidates whom outsiders will consider acceptable.
Modern computers already consist of a variety of coprocessors that perform specialized tasks, like producing graphics on your cellphone and converting visual, audio and other data for your laptop.
And if Keystone XL were approved by a future president, its 800,000-barrel-per-day capacity would complete the fourth and final phase of TransCanada's international Keystone Pipeline System, which already consists of almost 3,000 miles of operating pipeline, built over the last five years.
