The phrase "a combination of positive" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to assess its correctness in written English.
It can be used when discussing elements that are combined to create a positive outcome or effect, but it typically requires additional information to clarify what is being combined.
Example: "The project was successful due to a combination of positive feedback from clients and effective teamwork."
Alternatives: "a blend of positive" or "a mix of positive".
Procedures included a combination of positive reinforcement, graduated guidance, scheduled practice trials and forward prompting.
Dealers said a combination of positive market factors developed in the afternoon that caused heavy buying of Treasury paper, especially long-term bonds.
Contra-aggression uses a combination of positive reinforcement training techniques designed to actively reduce instances of aggressive behavior.
Effects of fragmentation on infauna were variable, with a combination of positive and negative species-specific responses.
Buoyed by a combination of positive production news from a number of miners and forecast beating results from JP Morgan and Intel, the FTSE 100 added 101.95 points to 5256.10, its highest level since September 19 last year.
Biosilicate® presents a combination of positive features for bone tissue regeneration: it is highly bioactive, osteoconductive, osteoinductive, non-cytotoxic, non-genotoxic and has antibacterial properties.
In contrast, significantly fewer parameter combinations lead to viable oscillations based on an essential positive loop (10%), or on a combination of essential positive and negative feedback loops (4%).
The emotional combinations were mostly surprise mixed with only positive emotions or surprise paired with a combination of both positive and negative emotions.
The reason is that the set of possible regions for calling a combination of markers positive includes as a special case the regions for calling any single marker positive.
When comparing regimens to gram positive coverage alone, 50%9595% CI: 38, 62%) responded it would be equivalent to a combination of gram positive and gram negative prophylaxis (Table 2).
But 30percentt of the most popular boys had a combination of some positive qualities and others that the researchers termed antisocial.
