Example sentences of "break up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generalised disruptive markings which simply break up the broad shape of the body are found in the many spotted or striped species . |
| 2 | The general appearance of the area is a drab one : there are few green spaces and few trees break up the uniform lines of terraced and semi-detached housing . |
| 3 | The Government is also facing growing pressure from its own right wing to inject a more competitive structure into the generating industry in the wake of this week 's withdrawal of nuclear power from the privatisation package — by breaking up the proposed duopoly of National Power and PowerGen . |
| 4 | Breaking up the confused concourse of horsemen into three echelons of a sort , in the darkness and without much noise and shouting , was a problem , and no very exact division resulted . |
| 5 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 6 | This may be achieved where cobbling makes drivers aware of the presence of pedestrians , where a tree breaks up the straight line of the centre of the road or where narrowings make drivers proceed especially slowly and carefully . |
| 7 | She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze . |
| 8 | This breaks up the upper crust of the snow and produces , in the long run , a piste which is firmer , and therefore better able to withstand 140 racers . |
| 9 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 10 | Several supports broke up the smooth appearance of the walls , and joined the floor and ceiling at angles that did n't seem really workable . |
| 11 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |