Example sentences of "mixture [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Meaning ’ , in short , lacks that exciting mixture of generality and precision which marks the explanatory concepts of the ‘ hard ’ sciences like physics . |
| 2 | As for Williams , who had an English father , it would be easy to explain away his hostility to England ; but the sorrier likelihood is that he saw quite justly the baleful mixture of timidity and arrogance which characterized literary London in his lifetime . |
| 3 | It was the peculiar mixture of alienation and reformism which created the most enduring legacy of British fascism , the tradition of political violence and anti-democratic values co-existing uneasily and with some contradiction with a pragmatic modernizing economic programme . |
| 4 | It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits — drinking and lechery . |
| 5 | It was a disagreeable story and coming as it did after the impact of the portrait it provoked in Dalgliesh a mixture of depression and foreboding which he tried to shake off as irrational . |
| 6 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
| 7 | He paused , detecting in his voice the first trace of that reedy mixture of sarcasm and pomposity which he knew occasionally affected him and to which he was morbidly sensitive . |
| 8 | The mixture of gin and wine he had drunk hammered in his head , distorting reality , opening limitless possibilities , showing him a fantasy world that rocked and shimmered . |
| 9 | It is this era which is drawing to a close and , with it , the peculiar mixture of promise and peril which long characterised Soviet life . |
| 10 | Probably , she concluded , it had just washed itself along on a tide of alcohol and that uneasy mixture of salaciousness and sanctimoniousness which characterises these melancholy occasions . |
| 11 | The mixture of anger and guilt which overwhelmed his widow made it impossible for her to grieve and weep for the loss of the good things shared in the early days of their marriage . |
| 12 | just this mixture of ambiguity and feebleness I think , when we talk about the provision of an acceptable level of public transport , I mean it 's acceptable to whom for heavens sake ? |
| 13 | The mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic we find in two books of the Bible implies that , at least among the Jews , Aramaic was written for no more international a public than that capable of reading Hebrew . |
| 14 | Here is a similar mixture of impetuosity and nobility which makes Richter so special . |