Example sentences of "[be] break [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 2 | He 'll be breaking up the twentieth and how long you on holiday , fortnight ? |
| 3 | Would ‘ Flash ’ be breaking out the champagne ? |
| 4 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 5 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 6 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 7 | As tasks were broken down the office became like a production line for mental work . |
| 8 | So the war came at last , at exactly 6.35:24 pm on January 16 , 1991 , when Peter Jennings interrupted a canned piece to announce that explosions and flashes were breaking up the Baghdad night . |
| 9 | Islands to the SSW were breaking up the swell , but the wind was funnelling between them to create a very steep and confused sea . |
| 10 | On the beach , the pirates were breaking up the captain 's little boat with axes . |
| 11 | Just as linotype operators at the Sun were breaking out the champagne to celebrate the arrival of £1,000 pay packets for a three-day week , the realization was beginning to dawn that sooner or later the power of the print unions would be broken by the introduction of new technology . |
| 12 | Northgate South ward councillor Dot Long , who took the case up with Labour colleague Eleanor Young , said : ‘ The illegal parking is breaking up the paving stones and it 's generally a nuisance for nearby residents . |
| 13 | For example , in messages like : Your coat 's on fire The wing 's breaking up The radio 's gone wrong Your uncle 's died probably the majority of English speakers would place the tonic stress on the subject noun , though it is difficult to see how this is more important than the last lexical word in each of the sentences . |
| 14 | The declared aim of such finance pirates is to break up the giants , and sell them off bit by bit . |
| 15 | The whole trust of the reforms is to break up the N H S piece by piece . |
| 16 | An important task of the project manager is to break down the project into independent activities , to specify what shall be done and when the work must be finished , and to make agreements with functional managers about their contributions . |
| 17 | Counsel 's aim is to break down the alibi by asking unexpected questions and so getting contradictory answers from the two defendants . |
| 18 | The very difficult challenge is to break down the Market Focus concept into components which can reach every individual on the shop floor and in every function . |
| 19 | Even along this road , however , many of the old ‘ guilds ’ had become , in effect , the organizations of employing ‘ masters ’ — the craft status shifted to the economic status — and these were themselves in complex relations with the development of capitalist trade , which was breaking down the kind of autonomy from which the guilds , new and old , had derived their monopoly . |
| 20 | The task was to break up the old bureaucratic machine and construct a new one , but one which would ‘ enable us gradually to reduce all officialdom to naught ’ ( p. 42 ) . |
| 21 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The philosophy of the assembly line was to break down the work into simple elements that required no special training . |