Example sentences of "break out in the " in BNC.

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1 Fire would break out in the house and he would be trapped in his room , unconscious ; she would climb up the ivy at the back of the house and help him to get out .
2 If the sultan rejected the tsar 's ultimatum , war would break out in the Balkans despite the Anglo-Russian agreement .
3 The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival .
4 The evening passed largely without incident , with no wars breaking out in the terraces .
5 Lucaroni was standing almost immediately inside , studying a notice concerning action to be taken in the event of fire breaking out in the building .
6 A sudden and miraculous plague breaks out in the camp , and though Aaron , as priest , runs into the midst of the people with ritual of atonement , he can not stop the pestilence before 14,700 lie dead .
7 That will not do , and when , to make matters considerably worse , bubonic plague breaks out in the town , the people of Ashdod decide to get rid of the ark .
8 At David Wilkerson 's rally , tension increases between the different teenage gangs and , before long , fighting breaks out in the arena .
9 Another fire breaks out in the West Derby area , and another one .
10 When ‘ white spot breaks out in the aquarium this species , like most other rasboras , suffers quite quickly from infestation , and rapid treatment with carefully calculated dosage is essential to save losses .
11 Van Gelder said : ‘ Makes it a bit awkward , sir , does n't it , if war breaks out in the next half-hour ? ’
12 To like this a lot you probably need to be able to handle silent movies — though dialogue suddenly breaks out in the final scene , powerfully underlining the film 's more serious side .
13 ‘ We now have this ludicrous situation where if a fire broke out in one end of a particular street in Prestatyn , Rhyl fire engines will go to it and if it breaks out in the other end of the street Prestatyn will go to it , ’ added Coun Edwards .
14 First , Iraq has threatened to attack Israel and Saudia Arabia with missiles and bombs if war breaks out in the Gulf ; the Iraqi News Agency said the warning had come from the country 's Air Force Commander .
15 Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks .
16 Peace was alleged to have broken out in the civil war or scrum called the Labour Party , creationism was adjudged not acceptable in Little Rock , Arkansas , schools , the Advanced Passenger Train ran with no passengers aboard to prove how advanced it was in every way except actually working , and the Soviet mission to the UN sued New York for better protection .
17 Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ?
18 While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House .
19 The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf .
20 Meanwhile there were also reports on March 12 that unrest had broken out in the Shia districts of Baghdad ( Saddam City and Shuala ) and that curfews had been imposed .
21 Violent clashes have broken out in the French Pyrenees between protestors opposed to a new road tunnel and some local people in the Aspe Valley .
22 The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York .
23 A row also broke out in the Dexter lines at the show after the judge awarded the breed championship to a cow that came only second in its class .
24 On the night of 22nd June 1957 , the fishing vessel Venus star from Portsoy , Banffshire , Scotland , was off Loch Ewe when a fire broke out in the engine-room .
25 Airport director Carlos Saruca Salgado said the jet broke in two , spilling passengers on to the ground and a fire broke out in the rear of the fuselage .
26 Scuffles broke out in the public gallery after victim Tony 's relatives cheered at the sentences .
27 By Easter heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year , and in the summer and autumn food riots broke out in the country at large as the price of a quartern loaf — where one could be had at all — rose from 3d. to over 1s .
28 An argument broke out in the crowded pub after some drink was knocked over and Mr Brown tried to defuse the situation .
29 One day at lunch , a fist fight broke out in the dining hall .
30 In the meantime , some suspects were interrogated , but the Croatian side never got hold of the whole file before the war broke out in the summer of 1991 .
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