Sentence examples for a mixture of poor from inspiring English sources

Marshall attributed the low "fire ratio" to a mixture of poor training and a natural reluctance to kill.

The champions dominated throughout the match, but were left largely frustrated by a mixture of poor finishing and great goalkeeping.

Every time they scored they bungled the restart and a mixture of poor organisation and weak tackling saw them concede three first-half tries.

They created a clutch of presentable chances only for a mixture of poor finishing and the reactions of Ciprian Tatarusanu, the Romania goalkeeper, to thwart them.

2.07pm BST It's a mixture of poor play from Cink and Campbell and storming efficiency from Rose and Poulter, but the latter are now four up.

Every year, nearly 11m children die before the age of five because of a mixture of poor nutrition and preventable disease.

Manuel Pinheiro's thrilling, subtle percussion punctuates impeccable performances (in which actors speak their own stage directions, with a mixture of poor-theatre simplicity and 21st-century irony) by Nyasha Hatendi, Obi Abili and Natheniel Martello-White.

"Hey," "Hello," "Greetings," or "Dear Sir" all reflect a mixture of awkwardness, poor judgment, and impersonality for a first e-mail contact.

In many ways, the horror on the bridge can be seen to represent an outgrowth of the all that ails the country's civic life: a mixture of endemic corruption, poor planning and an indolent attitude towards rules and regulations.The water festival, which sees a city of around 1.2m swell to more than double its normal size, has ever been a disaster waiting to happen.

We speculate that for both enzymes, IOS can be regarded as a mixture of good and poor substrates.

Studies initiated before the introduction of the IGCCCG prognostic groups in 1997, included a mixture of intermediate and poor prognosis patients by those criteria (Collette et al, 1999; Hinton et al, 2003).