Example sentences of "break [adv] from the " in BNC.

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1 Mr Van Eck said that he had recorded documentary evidence that police — some in plain clothes — had been shooting supporters of local headmen who had broken away from the committee running Crossroads , alleging fraud and corruption .
2 ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto .
3 That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body .
4 The problem , however , was that not enough of the gaseous nebula could in fact have broken away from the embryonic sun , as later generations of astronomers were quick to point out .
5 From the tip of the headland and for some way out to sea the waves were breaking white against half-submerged fangs and stacks of rock that had in time past broken away from the main cliffs .
6 The mould is broken away from the hardened bronze , the ends of the tie-rods sawn off , faults patched and the surface cleaned ; and though much fine detail was completed in the model , more can be chiselled on the cold bronze .
7 Er the other one was towards the latter end of the strike and er this particular area , the Notts area , er had what was called broken away from the er from the main body er of the strike .
8 Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter .
9 Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated .
10 Meanwhile it was reported on June 10 that 10 pro-Kurdish MPs who had broken away from the SDPP [ see also p. 37593 ] had formed the People 's Labour Party .
11 On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) .
12 On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) .
13 Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy .
14 The province 's four main tournament organisations have broken away from the controlling Northern Ireland Karate Board and have now formed a rival umbrella group of their own .
15 They are precise in detail yet from time to time break away from the formal patterns of Petipa 's well-ordered conventions .
16 ‘ Our mission at Dillons is to widen the market for books and break away from the elitism that has dominated the book trade and held back sales . ’
17 Move it further towards you so that the threads stick to the wire and break away from the support .
18 Whilst TechDoc is certainly one of the older and more established of these compartments it is undergoing rapid change as the vendors break away from the dedicated hardware platforms of their recent past .
19 Each ‘ generation ’ in the cycle starts when seed crystals break away from the parent stream in the form of dust .
20 You can see this if you break away from the discipline of the computer 's own official operating system , and write your own private programs to decipher what is actually written on every sector of the disc .
21 She attempted to shift her gaze and break away from the invisible hold he had on her .
22 We break away from the house for the wilderness , darting across gravel quickly .
23 Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices .
24 Not much , says Mr Day , and he predicts that smaller firms that do n't want to work in regulated areas will break away from the Institute and set up in practice as plain accountants .
25 When he does break away from the norm , and that 's not too often , there are some interesting results .
26 Every child must break away from the parental fold , and establish his own personal identity .
27 And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders .
28 This line featured in glorious technicolour on P337 of the Yorkshire Limestone guide breaks right from the start of Distant Early Warning to climb the obvious hanging groove in the wall left of Desert Island Arête .
29 If Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet is compared with Balanchine 's Ballet Imperial , it will be seen that Balanchine rarely breaks away from the classical technique as practised in petipa 's day when Tchaikovsky wrote the music .
30 Only in our century has relief come , when modernist poetry , particularly pound 's Cantos , breaks away from the pentameter .
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