Example sentences of "a mixture of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by the strength or its smell , a mixture of beer and fish and chips , the vomit was recent . |
| 2 | It takes its structure from a set of correspondences between elements and persons , and the old definition of temperament as a mixture of qualities is present to the reader 's mind — the same definition that permits us to think of Faussone as a part of Levi , or as his alter ego . |
| 3 | Ask yourself about the current African political scene and read round it to find interesting parallels , since Mageeba represents a mixture of the kind of African leadership to be found . |
| 4 | Also , investment patterns in both parts of Ireland are increasingly similar , being a mixture of British , international , local , and cross-border companies . |
| 5 | Basic equipment : a large white food-grade plastic dustbin with a capacity of at least six gallons ; plastic tubing , about two metres long with an internal diameter of at least 10 millimetres ; a wine cube — the plastic cubes used in an off-licence for selling draught wine and sherry are ideal ; an air lock and rubber bung ; about 40 one pint beer bottles ; a corking machine and crown corks ; a sterilising agent such as Chempro SDP or a mixture of sodium metabisulphite and citric acid ; a 12 pint pan . |
| 6 | Colman 's , which enjoys a virtual monopoly of mustard powder , is a mixture of juncea and alba with added wheat flour and turmeric . |
| 7 | First , there is a mixture of the personal and the political . |
| 8 | If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower . |
| 9 | However , if cracks do appear , you should try brushing a mixture of peat or compost and coarse sand into them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A mixture of evergreen shrubs , dwarf conifers , winter-flowering heathers and ivies with bulbs , pansies and polyanthus will enrich any garden . |
| 12 | Therefore , attack the bag with a mixture of kicks and punches , making sure that your action is continuous over a one minute period . |
| 13 | She heard that his flat , to which she foresaw she would soon be invited , was a mixture of Victorian ( the furniture ) and deco ( the mirrors , the glass ) . |
| 14 | The finish , specified by the church architect , was a mixture of oils and spirits and ammonia , to be followed by beeswax . |
| 15 | A mixture of equal quantities of raw linseed oil and substitute turps is often rubbed into pine prior to staining . |
| 16 | They were the days when many passengers were afraid to enter a secondclass compartment believing ( because of its quality ) it must be a first , of a mixture of vacuum and air-braked stock , steam and electric heating , and continual development and changes with the design of bogies . |
| 17 | There are roughly three kinds all of which can use one or a mixture of dance styles . |
| 18 | However , when necessary , choreographers can and should create a particular style that is perhaps based on a mixture of the above but that is , in the final analysis , a style suitable for one ballet only . |
| 19 | The stopped areas can be made less noticeable by imitating the grain with a fine artist 's brush and paint , usually using a mixture of ochres and siennas , according to the type of wood . |
| 20 | At a certain field strength — the lower critical field — the magnetic field began to penetrate portions of the sample and so the sample was a mixture of superconducting and normal states . |
| 21 | Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above . |
| 22 | At these higher frequencies , radio uses a mixture of vibrating electric and magnetic fields instead of fluctuating sound waves . |
| 23 | However a mixture of careful diplomatic packaging and the vague nature of some of the key provisions make a confrontation with Washington unlikely . |
| 24 | He predicted that the industry — which the Government has pledged will be privatised in the early 1990s — would be broken up before being sold , with each package containing a mixture of profit and loss-making pits . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The old man 's power , built on a mixture of skilful manipulation and ruthless repression , has waned . |
| 27 | Archaos The Last Show On Earth as envisaged by this French circus troupe is a mixture of Mad Max , The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle and Billy Smart . |
| 28 | Officially described as Fibresand ( a composite of silica sand reinforced with rot-proof synthetic fibres ) , which is used widely for exercise gallops , the Southwell track is actually a mixture of Fibresand , rubber particles and polymer . |
| 29 | Mr Reagan pulled off his political con-trick through a mixture of calculating charm and genuine niceness . |
| 30 | The money will be raised in a mixture of straightforward borrowing and long-term , high-interest bearing mezzanine finance — often referred to as junk bonds . |