The phrase "the text consists of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate what a text contains, e.g. "The text consists of five chapters discussing the various aspects of the history of the area."
The text consists of the virtually unedited transcript of conversations recorded a few months before Dick's death.
Called "Beach," the text consists of a single long sentence, whose opening words are, "I gave up heroin and went back to my town and started on the methadone treatment administered me at the clinic....".
The ecstatic choruses, representing the chatter of the Internet — in which the text consists of any random phone numbers that the singers think of — come directly out of the language games of "Mothertongue".
Another question it now becomes possible to ask is: How much of the text consists of named entities and dates?
We can now answer questions such as: How much of the text consists of NEs? How many NEs are there on average per text?
The text consists of an overview ("Idea of the Work") couched as an explication of a frontispiece depicting a female figure (Metaphysics), standing on a globe of the Earth and contemplating a luminous triangle containing the eye of God, or Providence.
The text consisted of nonsense syllables and words without syntax.
The figures embedded in the text consist of either low-resolution black-and-white photographs or hand-drawn images, which were legible but not particularly artistic -- a sharp contrast to the book's brilliant cover art, which is the most attractive nonfiction book cover I've seen in recent years (see video below to learn how this cover was created).
Some of the most interesting parts of the text consist of arguments supporting the necessity of governmental structure and the folly of depending on the character of rulers.
These sub-themes were identified through patterns embedded in the text, consisting of the women's personal actions and experiences.
Interpretations of the text consist of a dialectic movement between understanding the whole text and parts of the text, which is consistent with the hermeneutic method [ 46].
