Example sentences of "that a mixture of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He won 52 caps for Scotland but there is no doubt that a mixture of club commitments and the carry-on in Copenhagen prevented him from winning many more caps . |
| 2 | Its British inventor , Allan Cooke , believes that a mixture of the polymer and sand should help plants to grow in arid areas , preventing soil erosion ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 305 ) . |
| 3 | A fashionable consensus may be emerging , among those who reject any variation of the ‘ one more heave ’ school of Labour electoral thought , that a mixture of constitutional reform , including proportional representation ; a philosophy based on using the community to protect the individual ; and a set of consumer-friendly policies is the best way to create a modern left-of-centre party to take on the Conservatives . |
| 4 | The group tour contract also means that a mixture of market segments is using the hotel during the summer . |
| 5 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 6 | It is possible that a mixture of all three levels of care might be indicated to meet the needs of one client . |
| 7 | MPE/ix sits alongside of MPE , meaning that a mixture of MPE/ix , Posix and original MPE applications can be run on the same machine , exchanging data from the same or different databases . |
| 8 | In universities , educational technologists have sometimes seemed to be suggesting that a mixture of cinema , television and self-instructional systems could make possible economies in the teacher-student ratio . |
| 9 | Fresh flowers are fine for scenting the air but their life is finite , and to preserve their perfume , it was found that a mixture of flower petals , collected when they were at exactly the right stage in their development , then carefully dried or part-dried , and mixed with an ingredient which " fixed " the perfume , such as orris root ( Iris gennanica florentina ) would continue to give off fragrance for months and even years . |
| 10 | So what 's is that a mixture of |
| 11 | According to details reported on Aug. 8 , a study carried out by the Canadian government concluded that a mixture of energy efficiency and conservation would be the best approach to achieve the 20 per cent cut . |
| 12 | Despite the somewhat aggressive stance suggested by the quotation from Neisser , I assume that a mixture of experimental and naturalistic research is necessary to understand real world problems . |
| 13 | The study comes in the wake of preliminary work with red-legged partridges which showed that a mixture of pesticides can greatly increase the dangers of a any single chemical . |
| 14 | Campaigners against the project point out that a mixture of economic recession and growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency may deprive Hydro-Quebec of the bulk of its potential revenue from the scheme , in the form of orders from US power supply companies , who are believed to be reconsidering the need to import power from Canada . |