Example sentences of "[be] break [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 2 | He 'll be breaking up the twentieth and how long you on holiday , fortnight ? |
| 3 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 4 | The task was to break up the old bureaucratic machine and construct a new one , but one which would ‘ enable us gradually to reduce all officialdom to naught ’ ( p. 42 ) . |
| 5 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |