Example sentences of "breaking up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These writers have put ‘ football hooliganism ’ , and developments among working-class youth generally , into the broader context of the social history of Britain since 1945 — in which the breaking up of traditional working-class communities , industrial decline , rising unemployment and periodic panics about unruly youth have all been pre-eminent . |
| 2 | Other stunts included the breaking up of Labour party meetings and vandalizing a Daily Herald van by driving it into the railings of a London church . |
| 3 | The foundation , which has adopted the principles and guidelines of the German-based International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements , aims to provide assistance and education to private farmers , whose numbers are growing rapidly as a result of land reform and the breaking up of collective farms . |
| 4 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the ‘ thirst for new land ’ , as in the past , resulted in the breaking up of marginal scrub for wheat . |
| 5 | The first phase of the talks had taken place in Madrid between Oct. 30 and Nov. 3 when the Israelis and the Arabs had met around one table before breaking up into bilateral negotiations [ see pp. 38594-95 ] . |
| 6 | What he meant was that there are numerous examples of repeating patterns , and embryos seem to like breaking up into repeated units . |
| 7 | The two-day debate in parliament opened with an emergency speech by President Vaclav Havel , who declared that the country was in danger of breaking up under nationalist pressures from Slovakia . |