Example sentences of "with a mixture [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first met Chris and Pauline Lloyd to discuss their garden and take a look at its one-in-three slope , I was filled with a mixture of admiration for them , and horror at the task ahead . |
| 2 | Therefore , attack the bag with a mixture of kicks and punches , making sure that your action is continuous over a one minute period . |
| 3 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 4 | According to reliable sources , the Tate Gallery greeted the expansion of the Saatchi Collection with a mixture of relief and complacency : it was felt that it would inevitably , one day , be bequeathed to the nation , and since that was so , the underfunded Tate Gallery need not bother to acquire major work in the same area as the Saatchis . |
| 5 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 6 | Since 1979 the programme of privatization has been defended with a mixture of ideological and pragmatic arguments . |
| 7 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 8 | Fill it with a mixture of lettuce , tomatoes , pickled cucumbers , spring onions , tuna fish , hard-boiled eggs and some pitted black olives . |
| 9 | By 10 minutes to 12 everything was ready for the bazaar , so Amanda set out for home , tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear . |
| 10 | With a mixture of admiration at her own acumen , pride in her country , and affectionate pity for Omi , Erika politely sat upright as the Minister began his sermon . |
| 11 | EVEN after nearly four years in prison ( where , characteristically , he turned the permitted weekly letter to his wife into philosophical essays ) Havel was able to dramatise the dissident 's dilemma with a mixture of recollected pain and resilient humour . |
| 12 | Penelope Huntley , who would very much have liked to have gone on with the discussion , found herself swept out of the office , and walked slowly down the road , flushed with a mixture of disappointment and excitement . |
| 13 | Napoli is also a very popular variety , having coarser lumps of flat than the Milano and being made with a mixture of pork and beef . |
| 14 | While the period of maturing is seldom described as such , the hams are thoroughly air-dried after being treated with a mixture of sugars and spices ; they are also often smoked before drying . |
| 15 | They are rubbed with salt to dry cure them and then coated with a mixture of spices , including juniper , and molasses , which is mainly responsible for the black appearance of the ham . |
| 16 | Kaasdoop , the Dutch version of fondue , is made with a mixture of these cheeses , although the addition of some mature Gouda will add extra distinction to the flavour . |
| 17 | I was speechless with a mixture of fear and embarrassment . |
| 18 | Keyed up with a mixture of excitement and dread , Mungo came to the stone wall in front of the barrow . |
| 19 | Frankie watched her now with a mixture of awe and delight as she pranced in little pirouettes around the kitchen . |
| 20 | ( Later , Karajan was to lay claim to Holst 's The Planets , first with his Vienna Philharmonic Decca recording , a favourite of the composer 's daughter , Imogen , and subsequently with his Berlin recording which , with a mixture of bemusement and pride , Karajan would tell you is one of his all-time best-selling records . ) |
| 21 | Now it is largely the diplomatic quarter of Bonn with a mixture of new office buildings and elegant old villas . |
| 22 | This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame . |
| 23 | The stone is bedded in courses with a mixture of a local clay , dung and soil . |
| 24 | Traditional hedgerows illustrate this , with a mixture of species from woodland and open fields . |
| 25 | With a mixture of public relations and desperation , they attempted to turn the situation on its head . |
| 26 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 27 | His interior monologues convey the thoughts that pass through his mind as he lies on his deathbed and reviews his past life with a mixture of pride and guilt . |
| 28 | The ammunition drums were loaded with a mixture of incendiary , explosive and tracer rounds , which proved to be a lethal cocktail when used against aircraft and road transport . |
| 29 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 30 | for example , in Oxfordshire the statutory Education Committee was mainly composed of old-style landed Tories , but with a mixture of keen Trades Unionist members from Cowley , and some ‘ intellectuals ’ deliberately invited in from the university . |