Example sentences of "[noun] to break up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 2 | For this look , the wig was given a weave and spiral cut to break up the basic exterior shape . |
| 3 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 4 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 5 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 6 | In fact development of Housing Action Trusts to deal with particularly run-down estates and Scottish Homes to break up the public sector suggests an alternative vision , based on state-sponsored restructuring and renewal from above , rather than individual choice . |
| 7 | The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty . |
| 8 | The Minister 's attitude reveals a clear determination to break up the system of comprehensive education in this country and replace it with something different . |
| 9 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Ian Prestt , director-general of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said the most contentious part of the bill was the proposal to break up the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 11 | There are long sightlines and high lamp posts , but these give way after rebuilding ( Figure 6.4 ) to pedestrian-scale poles , a tree planted in the road as a slowing device ( marked by reflective posts to aid night visibility ) and changes in paving colours to break up the long vista . |
| 12 | So , in summary , we 're looking for a clear site , exposed to wind , preferably on rising ground or on beach dunes where there are no buildings to break up the breeze . |
| 13 | He was a patriotic Great Russian , and had no ambitions to break up the Russian empire . |
| 14 | Bring to the boil , chopping through the mixture with a spoon to break up the tomatoes and pears . |
| 15 | With Sir Thomas Cooke , his successor as governor , Herne appears to have been party to some extremely shady deals to break up the opposition group in 1693–4 , and to have engaged in bribery to help secure a new charter for the company in 1694 ; all this brought a parliamentary storm on his head in the spring of 1696 . |
| 16 | Gaunt had used the strength of his position as the representative of the king to break up the opposition and to reassert the authority of the crown . |
| 17 | In addition , the three-digit minimum of the Dewey system has been contracted to eliminate unnecessary zeros , and the decimal point appears after every three digits to break up the number . |
| 18 | In developing surreptitious techniques to break up the beat monotony , superiors were not always what they seemed . |
| 19 | The most recent idea was making a path at the side of their home incorporating large circles made of paving setts to break up the monotony of a straight path . |
| 20 | Eye-witnesses claimed that troops of the elite Special Presidential Division used rifles , hot-water cannons , metal-tipped canes and tear gas to break up the crowd , many of whom were reportedly carrying rosaries and prayer books . |
| 21 | In March 1947 , the Government announced its intention to round off the social service provision that had been made by the National Insurance and National Health Service Acts of 1946 , by introducing legislation to break up the poor law , and to introduce a comprehensive system of national assistance . |
| 22 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |
| 23 | A touch of Wella High Hair Soft Wax was rubbed through the hair to break up the texture and smooth down the coarseness of the hair . |
| 24 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |
| 25 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 26 | The trust contemplates many benefits for patients , including continuing the systematic assessments and the reductions in institutional accommodation , and has plans to break up the large wards and to increase the staff-patient ratio . |
| 27 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 28 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 29 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 30 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |