Example sentences of "break [adv] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mould is broken away from the hardened bronze , the ends of the tie-rods sawn off , faults patched and the surface cleaned ; and though much fine detail was completed in the model , more can be chiselled on the cold bronze . |
| 2 | The problem , however , was that not enough of the gaseous nebula could in fact have broken away from the embryonic sun , as later generations of astronomers were quick to point out . |
| 3 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 4 | Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy . |
| 5 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 6 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 7 | That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body . |
| 8 | She attempted to shift her gaze and break away from the invisible hold he had on her . |
| 9 | Whilst TechDoc is certainly one of the older and more established of these compartments it is undergoing rapid change as the vendors break away from the dedicated hardware platforms of their recent past . |
| 10 | Every child must break away from the parental fold , and establish his own personal identity . |
| 11 | Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices . |
| 12 | In his balletts he often breaks away from the Mantuan composer 's genuinely dancelike and predominantly note-against-note style , keeping only the ‘ fa-la ’ refrain which is the hallmark of the balletto — but extending even that with great contrapuntal and rhythmic ingenuity . |
| 13 | If Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet is compared with Balanchine 's Ballet Imperial , it will be seen that Balanchine rarely breaks away from the classical technique as practised in petipa 's day when Tchaikovsky wrote the music . |
| 14 | Shop fronts can be decorated without permission , breaking away from the original design . |
| 15 | The President 's term of office is five years , as is that of the 83-member Assembly , elected by universal suffrage ( most recently in December 1985 ) from a single list of candidates put forward by the sole party , the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde — PAICV , founded in January 1981 , when it broke away from the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau , whose rule in Guinea-Bissau was overthrown in 1980 ) . |
| 16 | In 1944 , Williams published an expanded version of his thesis under the title ‘ Capitalism and Slavery ’ , and in doing so broke away from the imperial tradition of historiography on the subject of the abolition of slavery . |
| 17 | For this reason , too , he broke away from the traditional pattern of definitions of the ‘ attributes of God ’ in terms of such qualities as omnipotence , eternity , omnipresence , infinity , perfection and so on . |
| 18 | The Resistance was a unique experience for them , and they wanted to preserve its experience in the new French politics because this experience broke away from the famous dilemma of being and doing , which confronts all intellectuals in the face of action … . |
| 19 | Of the 17,000 demonstrators involved , 1,000 broke away from the agreed route of the march and gathered on the south side of Westminster Bridge , where they were prevented from crossing by a large group of officers . |
| 20 | But they appeared to retreat from their previous hard line against the Serbs , perceived by the West as the initiators and main aggressors in the war which erupted almost 14 months ago after Bosnia broke away from the Yugoslav federation . |
| 21 | The two riders broke away from the leading group on the second climb of the day . |
| 22 | Its co-founder and leading spirit is an Afrikaner farmer , Mr Dirk Mudge , who foresaw by a dozen years that his people would need allies for survival , and broke away from the whites-only Nationalist party to find black and brown ones . |
| 23 | Her face felt hot and flushed as she broke away from the magnetic pull of his eyes . |
| 24 | Climbers like to break away from the usual uniform of breeches and warm top , favouring instead old tracksuit bottoms and rancid T-shirts , but the scrambler usually likes to be well turned out . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most well-known experiment in work organisation is the Volvo car assembly plant at Kalmar in Sweden where the company has made some attempt to break away from the traditional mass-production assembly line . |
| 26 | Under PNP , schools have been able to break away from the traditional conception of primary school professional life centring on just two roles : those of head and class teacher . |
| 27 | BY 1983 , New Order had three things : a deep desire to break away from the son-of-Joy-Division guitar glaciers with which they 'd become associated , a new-found interest in the electro dance vibe that was filling the UK 's clubs , and a brand new drum machine . |
| 28 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 29 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 30 | Senior managers ( or coaches ) only intervene when the work groups come unstuck or threaten to break away from the main organisation like rebellious satellites . |