Sentence examples for half comprises from inspiring English sources

The film's first half comprises an arm-twisting justification for the carnage that follows.

New Guinea is administratively divided into two parts: its western half comprises the Indonesian propinsi (or provinsi; provinces) of Papua and West Papua (collectively, formerly called Irian Jaya); and its eastern half comprises the major part of Papua New Guinea, an independent country since 1975.

Its first half comprises several dozen prologues with headings like "Guide to the Prologues (Warning Prologue)," "A New Prologue to My Authorial Persona" and "For Readers Who Will Perish if They Don't Know What the Novel Is About".

I remembered the novel as having a lot of descriptive passages – about the landscape, and the birds, bees, fish and trees that populate it – but in fact this takes up about half of the book, while the other half comprises a fine detailing of Willie's schooling: his schoolmates and the teachers, their idiosyncrasies and the foibles of their teaching.

The other half comprises Ms. Rankine's lyric musings on the way that the landscape shapes people, and that people shape the landscape, and the interaction between human beings and the places in which they live and work and fight to establish a sense of belonging — even places that it seems nobody wants to belong to.

Relative comparison to this percentage reads mapped suggests that during manipulated biting behavior about half of the biological material is ant tissue, while the other half comprises of fungal cells.

Indeed, her song is not only performed at a gay tempo, but with a chorus half comprised of jubilant trilling (the other half, to be fair, concerns how "all God's children have got to die").

The first half comprised the Alpine Symphony, sometimes written off as a series of musical picture-postcards, though Maazel's measured and methodical conducting gave it a considerably greater stature.

The initial program was a 6-year residency, half of which was spent in recognized EDs with the other half comprising rotations in various clinical departments of various durations.

Noller [ 76] has observed that the tRNA top half (comprising the T arm and the acceptor stem – including the amino acid binding site) interacts almost exclusively with the large ribosomal subunit, while the bottom half (comprising the D and anticodon arms) interacts almost exclusively with the small subunit.

In fact, half of the sex-biased genes in the female soma are estimated to be germline-dependent genes that respond to ecdysone, the other half comprising germline-independent sex-biased genes regulated by the sex-determination hierarchy.