Example sentences of "split [adv prt] into [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The others had been ordered to split up into small groups and make good their escape as best they could and , if successful , to report to pre-arranged meeting places in the city . |
2 | Infants developing competence in their first language , experience it as a working high-speed whole , yet acquire native speaker competence without any formal instruction , apparently without effort , without any conscious formulation of rules , and without any splitting down into manageable ‘ areas ’ ( although the features of adult speech to children may provide some help ) . |
3 | Red deer , for instance , end the season by splitting up into male herds and female herds , each with dominant members . |
4 | Because of the scattered distribution of food , the orang-utan population is split up into small dispersed foraging units and the flexible nature of orang-utan society allows them to exploit irregular fruit distribution better than territorial monkeys or gibbons , for example . |
5 | Breaking up large firms plays no significant part in UK competition policy although in the US the telecommunications company AT & T was split up into regional competitors . |
6 | The third form is ‘ part process ’ in which not only is head office administration spatially separated but the actual production process is split up into discrete bits which are carried out at different spatial locations . |
7 | As a result in 1947 an agreement was signed with the Americans , known as the UK-USA Treaty , whereby the world would be split up into different areas of operation and GCHQ and its American counterpart the National Security Agency ( NSA ) , would share out the intelligence work on the most economical basis . |
8 | And got split up into different little workshops and dwellings . |
9 | karting is split up into different classes … age and engine size decides all that but it is a sport that anyone can have a go at … |
10 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
11 | The conference split up into working parties including groups for mathematics , science , language , social studies with the humanities , and teacher training . |
12 | We are told that Russia will disintegrate , or split up into separate republics , but we have no reason to fear this . |
13 | First , problems are so complex that they are normally factored , or split up into separate problems , each of which can potentially be tackled by a sub-organization . |
14 | Afterwards we split up into various groups , and and I had another formal introduction to one of the ‘ production teams ’ ( which is really a little hamlet with a population of 200 or so near the town ) . |
15 | At eleven , they split up into small groups and assembled in the rooms of the lecturers whose courses they had chosen . |