be a constituent
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Beth Ehrbar, a Berea resident who works at the university and used to be a constituent of Kasich’s during his time as a Columbus-area Congressman, declared herself “very excited!”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016
Standard & Poor’s said yesterday that Sino-Forest no longer qualifies to be a constituent of the benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 31, 2011
Linda chats with Mike, figuring he must be a constituent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus our judgment is wholly reduced to constituents with which we are acquainted, but Julius Cæsar himself has ceased to be a constituent of our judgment.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
Mr. Sorby examines the structure of slate-rock, and finds plates of mica to be a constituent.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
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