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

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1 Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from .
2 However , Austria has already submitted its request for full membership of the EC and this might be followed by Norway and Sweden if the attempt to negotiate a wider West European unity breaks down .
3 When a complete stranger breaks into YOUR home and helps himself to YOUR most valued possessions — its not just the expense that hurts .
4 Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ;
5 These small dark patches on the Sun 's surface occur where the underlying magnetic field breaks through .
6 Force 8 : Fresh Gale Breaks twigs of trees ; generally impedes progress
7 Then , when we were demoing the songs during pre-production , I recorded the different lead breaks on separate tracks .
8 Today , as the system or planned economy and social security breaks down , once again — the situation is analogous — language acts as a substitute for factors of integration in a disintegrating society .
9 America and Britain have the most liberalised financial systems and the most generous tax breaks on interest payments of the six countries in the chart .
10 Fresh bone breaks with a jagged , spiral type of break depending on the nature of the bone rather than the breakage agent .
11 Once the virus is completely surrounded the spherical pit breaks off and reseals to leave the virus inside the cell but enclosed within a membrane coat .
12 Pevsner says it is like an overgrown bungalow and with its generous lawns breaks up the texture of the old High Street and the adjacent 18th century Magnolia House .
13 ‘ When the sandfly bites you , it lets in this protozoan , which gets under your skin and eats away the underlayer , after which the top layer breaks away leaving raw , open wounds .
14 At one point , at some point , very late , the old man breaks away from his partner , and spins easily on a shiny patch of yellow floor , his long arms folded to his sides , not dancing at all now but simply spinning , spinning , for quite a while .
15 It is not clear at what ( spreading ) radius greater than a bolide 's initial radius the collective bow-shock approximation breaks down .
16 The accompanying table breaks down into 11 the areas where tax is wasted by Scots .
17 In the middle part of the crypt , a cluster of transformed cells breaks through the crypt basement membrane and is identified as an adenoma bud .
18 An additional £3M breaks down into £1,000 for every committee .
19 Interruptions are not always a curse ; I sometimes find that a lost association breaks the surface for air precisely when I 've stopped actively thinking about the writing .
20 There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’
21 We will scrap the remaining tax breaks for company cars and apply tougher limits to permitted emissions .
22 This raises the question of who is responsible if the individual trader breaks the rules .
23 Hello , from South London , , do do you agree with that , we should n't get involved if civil conflict breaks out there ?
24 In first gear the rear Michelin breaks traction immediately .
25 If serious conflict breaks out with regard to any one of these types of demand the result will be either a neurosis ( conflict between the ego and the id ) , a manic-depressive disorder ( conflict between the ego and the superego ) , or a psychosis ( conflict between the ego and reality ) .
26 as one more blemished limb breaks out of cover .
27 His legs are so long that when the rear tyre breaks away he can pick the bike up so quickly because he 's already on it .
28 The following table breaks this down …
29 Fossil bone is different from both in that it breaks like the solid mineral substance it has become , with straight transverse breaks across the shafts of limb bones .
30 Wherever the New Testament is preached , the divine drama breaks through the restrictions of theological theory and rational presentations of the gospel and continues to win men and women to God 's cause .
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