Example sentences of "breaks [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes .
2 It is correct for most of the chapter with unc taken as a constant but breaks down for ferromagnetic materials , which will be discussed in Section 3.11 .
3 It breaks down into two parts .
4 As before , the calculation breaks down into three parts : Stage 1 : Determination of We use equation ( 9 ) to calculate .
5 The job breaks down into seven parts : designing the system , removing the old guttering and downpipes , repainting the fascia boards ( this will almost certainly be necessary ) , fixing the new guttering , fixing the new downpipes , connecting to the drains or soakaway and testing the system .
6 So here we explain how you can complain effectively about anything , from a problem at the bank , an inflated gas bill or a TV set that breaks down after two days .
7 That constancy of composition relationship breaks down in enclosed seas and bays for example where er addition processes , I E er salts which have been eroded from river water , may alter the composition .
8 Such research is necessary for understanding the mental processes involved in object recognition ; how object recognition may develop ; and , how such recognition breaks down in certain cases of brain damage .
9 But one must still be wary the fact that although we 've got this nice electric gadget , that we drop the probe into a bucket of water and it gives us er a salinity it is still entirely dependent on this ratio and this ratio is based on the constancy of composition which is very good for open ocean waters but breaks down in coastal waters where erosional processes , where fresh water additions and the sediment loads of the rivers may actually alter this ratio , okay ?
10 However , even this breaks down in some cases — for instance , in the form of hypercholesterolaemia due to a low density lipoprotein receptor defect , the pathology is quantitative , and introducing a normal gene may improve the prognosis , even in adults in whom the disease is dominant .
11 Well they used to , if a battery could n't be , you can charge it up but if it breaks through from one cell to the other a a across with sediment in the bottom , so it gaps that cell and that cell so you can charge it forever because the one 's discharging the other with the sediment that 's arrested in the bottom cos i it 's like putting a connection across , so it never actually charges .
12 The work was not written in liturgical order , and Mozart 's own part in it breaks off after eight bars of the Lachrymosa .
13 At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down .
14 Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way .
15 Not quite so bad is the man or woman who starts a diet every Monday , is quite good until Friday , breaks out into wild eating over the weekend , and starts again on Monday .
16 They 're obviously going into a difficult area and if it breaks out into open conflict , there will be slight risk , but at the moment it 's fairly routine for us .
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