Example sentences of "[noun] breaks [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When Rebekah suggests that Jacob take his brother 's place , or when Potiphar 's wife tries to seduce Joseph , or Tamar calls attention to Judah 's progeny , their interference breaks up the exclusive father-son dialogue and forces recognition of their presence … . |
| 3 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 4 | IN PRINT : How to Plan , Purchase , and Produce Print breaks down the complicated publication process into an easy-to-follow , step-by-step sequence . |
| 5 | In ‘ Questions of genre ’ he has returned to such fundamental terms of genre poetics as expectation , verisimilitude institutional discourses and practices specific to cinema ; his essay on the American war film breaks down the homogeneous generality of a single film genre into particular typologies of form , structure and discourse which play out particular regimes of power and ideology . |
| 6 | Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler . |