Example sentences of "to make a [adj] break " in BNC.

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1 The Party had decided to make a decisive break with the " reformist " Labour movement .
2 In 1947 Claud decided to make a complete break with his past and they settled near her family home in Youghal in a derelict Georgian mansion belonging to an American policeman which they rented for £150 a year .
3 More than most , you know how to make a complete break with the past .
4 Now , however , the Sun in Aries , at odds with your ruling planet Uranus , as well as Saturn and Neptune in Capricorn , the most sensitive area of your solar chart , signifies that intrigue and intimidation are forcing you to make a complete break from the past .
5 It was time for the socialists to make a complete break with their past in order to bring about a new renaissance , he argued .
6 It was time for the Socialists to make a complete break with their past in order to bring about a new renaissance , he argued .
7 The FRG and the USSR … in the wish to make a final break with the past and make , through understanding and reconciliation , a weighty contribution to overcoming the division of Europe ,
8 Nigel meditated on whether smashing her trophy might be the best way to make a clean break .
9 ‘ Despite the appalling business of dropping GMTV in it three weeks before they went on the air , it was far better to make a clean break .
10 Certainly , regulators are urging banks to make a clean break with property .
11 It was best to make a clean break .
12 Gossip has it that his wife had recently left him and he wanted to make a clean break .
13 Better to make a clean break now than …
14 And this year the association has tried to make a clean break from the past .
15 And this year the association has tried to make a clean break from the past .
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