Example sentences of "[noun] to break down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Feminist Dictionary , compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler , is not just a nonsexist version of the standard dictionary , but an attempt to break down the monolithic authority of dictionaries in general . |
| 2 | The obverse of Employee Involvement is Participative Management , Ford 's attempt to break down the organizational barriers between management hierarchies . |
| 3 | The process uses a natural gas flame to break down the effluent into sulphur dioxide . |
| 4 | It only takes a current of a few nanoamps to develop enough voltage to break down the insulation and make a hole in the silicon . |
| 5 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 6 | This rapid growth has been achieved by dint of strong and imaginative leadership pushing the firm into new areas , reflecting an almost evangelical aim to break down the old-boy network and cut out the dead wood from British industry . |
| 7 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 8 | You were unable to arouse Sir Thomas so you asked the servants to break down the door ? ’ |
| 9 | ISS makes proposals to break down the barriers that often exist between teachers and parents , to improve the extent and quality of communication between school and home , and to increase parental involvement with the child 's learning . |
| 10 | The secret to successful royal icing is to beat the mixture for at least 15 minutes to break down the sugar so that the cake cuts well . |
| 11 | After years of tortuous study , absurdly limited measures to break down the barriers between banks and brokers have been proposed . |
| 12 | The ability to break down the analysis by location and function enabled assessments to be made of the likely organisational consequences of a given set of boundaries as well as the effect on the overall and grade specific grading changes . |
| 13 | In order to break down the straw , a greater use of chemicals will be required to encourage bacterial growth in time to assimilate the product , before the new crop emerges . |
| 14 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 15 | Officials had to send for special chemicals to break down the tar and free the vehicles . |
| 16 | yds ) of surface area to which the bacteria employed in the filter to break down the waste products can adhere — and the open construction allows a good supply of atmospheric oxygen to pass through the material . |
| 17 | After conceding a 1–1 draw in the Principality , Arsene Wenger 's side is relying on the foreign attacking trio of Rui Barros , George Weah and Youssouf Fofana to break down the Feyenoord defence who , as Tottenham found to their cost , have conceded only one goal in seven matches . |
| 18 | Crewmen helped the alarmed mother to break down the door . |
| 19 | And it 's taken that length of time to break down the seventy or eighty year barriers that are in existence between workers and management . |
| 20 | Septic tanks are more like miniature sewage works and rely on the action of bacteria to break down the sewage into harmless liquid and sludge . |