Example sentences of "breaking [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 2 | Next you begin breaking down the aims into individual goals . |
| 3 | Part of the problem for Londoners is that the notion of transformed primary and community care , breaking down the boundaries between hospital and community , is still unclear . |
| 4 | Breaking down the barriers to true freedom in East Germany . |
| 5 | Our vision of the Christian family and the human family leads us to join with others in breaking down the barriers which separate us . |
| 6 | We have begun the job of raising educational standards and breaking down the barriers between the vocational and the academic routes . |
| 7 | Breaking down the barriers to change |
| 8 | However , this concern may not be wholly justified as he has been an active member of the CNAA and is known to be a keen supporter of public sector provision and an advocate of breaking down the barriers between the two sectors of higher education . |
| 9 | Breaking down the barriers . |
| 10 | Gysin , who exhibited with the Surrealists at the tender age of 19 , dedicated his life to breaking down the barriers between painting and writing . |
| 11 | The paltry crowd of 1,223 had very little to cheer as Quakers failed to show any sign of breaking down the visitors . |
| 12 | What lay behind the rebellion is not at all clear , though historians claim that it was a reaction to Henry 's policy of centralization , breaking down the traditions of local autonomy and introducing more advanced Anglo-Norman methods of government . |
| 13 | Its discovery was the result of prolonged studies of the microbes which exist in soil and survive by breaking down the remains of plants and animals , and by competition with each other . |
| 14 | There will also be an interest in breaking down the numbers according to such familiar variables as age , sex and socio-economic status , and there will be a curiosity about whether ( and , if so , how ) religious affiliation or observance correlates with other kinds of behaviour . |
| 15 | Breaking down the results by session : the first session of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings totalled £556,930 ( $946,780 ) with 46.7% unsold by value ; the session of modern and contemporary Indian paintings , watercolours , drawings and sculpture totalled £125,750 ( $213,775 ) with 17.47% unsold by value ; the group of Indian and South-East Asian sculpture and works of art totalled £141,858 ( $241,158 ) with 56% unsold ; the Oriental and European ceramics , bronzes gold and silver totalled £194,315 ( $330,335 ) . |
| 16 | The poet breaking down the barricades Radio . |
| 17 | But because she keeps breaking down the details remain confused . |
| 18 | the more successful attacks by Leeds came from either Kelly or Dorigo breaking down the flanks and crossing in . |
| 19 | What is behind the bishops ' and archdeacons ' reluctance even to consider breaking up the boundaries seems to be a desire to maintain a mixture of middle , high and low churches and not upset the balance . |
| 20 | The Simpsons started life as animated shorts breaking up the sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show . |
| 21 | Fifty-two grateful seagulls swooped , breaking up the ranks amid cries and squeals of distress . |
| 22 | It also allows frost to permeate the soil , aiding the infiltration of rain and essential for breaking up the clods into manageable sizes . |
| 23 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 24 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 25 | This is mainly dealing with the Social Fund which as you know , is erm , go undergoing changes , which means er loss of money and breaking up the fundings to twelve monthly amounts , which is creating great difficulties . |
| 26 | just breaking up the pieces of stone . |