Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] breaks [adv prt] " 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 | These small dark patches on the Sun 's surface occur where the underlying magnetic field breaks through . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is not clear at what ( spreading ) radius greater than a bolide 's initial radius the collective bow-shock approximation breaks down . |
| 8 | The accompanying table breaks down into 11 the areas where tax is wasted by Scots . |
| 9 | An additional £3M breaks down into £1,000 for every committee . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Hello , from South London , , do do you agree with that , we should n't get involved if civil conflict breaks out there ? |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | as one more blemished limb breaks out of cover . |
| 14 | ‘ Labour war breaks out , ’ said one paper . |
| 15 | When a rampant piano breaks out of the ecstatic trance midway through we 're two-nil up before the record 's even half way through and , with the arrival of a melancholy eastern vocal further up the touchline , it 's turning into a whitewash . |
| 16 | In his story , a scruffy Neapolitan improvisatore breaks in on a Petersburg gentleman-poet in his study . |
| 17 | That is where the little parable breaks down . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , if this beastly war breaks out we 'll have to make it earlier . |
| 19 | That will not do , and when , to make matters considerably worse , bubonic plague breaks out in the town , the people of Ashdod decide to get rid of the ark . |
| 20 | A sudden and miraculous plague breaks out in the camp , and though Aaron , as priest , runs into the midst of the people with ritual of atonement , he can not stop the pestilence before 14,700 lie dead . |
| 21 | When ‘ white spot breaks out in the aquarium this species , like most other rasboras , suffers quite quickly from infestation , and rapid treatment with carefully calculated dosage is essential to save losses . |
| 22 | The young remain with their mother until a new baby is born , after which they wander further and further away until the parental bond breaks down completely . |
| 23 | But do n't add commercial fertiliser yet — homemade compost breaks down more slowly , so the nutrients wo n't be washed away . |
| 24 | The inclusion of a joke , suitably disguised pupil howler or cartoon on a regular basis breaks down any heaviness in the letter . |
| 25 | In a country where one in four is said to be an informer or member of the secret police , if the present order breaks down there will be a lot of old scores to be settled . |
| 26 | In a telephone network , for example , if one key element breaks down and the whole system immediately crashes you have a ‘ catastrophic failure ’ , but if , instead , there is simply a progressive deterioration leading , after a period , to the same ultimate end , silence , then you are experiencing ‘ graceful degradation ’ . |
| 27 | Although we can specify types of people , e.g. computer scientists , typographers , editors , publishers , and more generally scientists versus humanists , much of the current technology breaks down these specializations . |
| 28 | DESPAIR A starving girl breaks down in tears as the search for food ends with an empty jar |
| 29 | However , the floral metaphor breaks down , for the attitudinal seeds contain the makings of the negation , as well as the repetition , of present growth . |
| 30 | That is where the simplistic industrial analogy breaks down . |