Example sentences of "[noun sg] break up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Now in a place like this , ’ Tuppe began , ‘ there 's bound to be a heavy-metal band breaking up the room . |
| 10 | As the meeting broke up the conversation turned to Archer 's party . |
| 11 | In moonlight the white belly fur breaks up the outline of the hunter to perfection . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 14 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 15 | Bring to the boil , chopping through the mixture with a spoon to break up the tomatoes and pears . |
| 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 | 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 … . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 23 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 24 | A tall hotel broke up the skyline of the night . |
| 25 | My duty was to supply conversation to break up the monotony of the heat-haze on the straight roads through the bush . |
| 26 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 27 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |
| 28 | Defries decided it was time to break up the reunion . |