Example sentences of "[noun] break [adv] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 2 | Mr Ian Prestt , director-general of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said the most contentious part of the bill was the proposal to break up the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 3 | By the time war broke out the civil-defence machine was ready to operate , although there was still much ground to make up , and good use was made of the unexpected respite before bombing started a year later . |
| 4 | This rapid growth has been achieved by dint of strong and imaginative leadership pushing the firm into new areas , reflecting an almost evangelical aim to break down the old-boy network and cut out the dead wood from British industry . |
| 5 | Firstly , karateka are not allowed to bring their own coaches with them to training sessions because experience has shown that the presence of other coaches breaks up the training atmosphere , and causes people to separate to far corners instead of remaining together . |
| 6 | With Sir Thomas Cooke , his successor as governor , Herne appears to have been party to some extremely shady deals to break up the opposition group in 1693–4 , and to have engaged in bribery to help secure a new charter for the company in 1694 ; all this brought a parliamentary storm on his head in the spring of 1696 . |
| 7 | In developing surreptitious techniques to break up the beat monotony , superiors were not always what they seemed . |
| 8 | A special laser breaks down the pigment molecules in the skin , which are then absorbed by the body without scarring . |
| 9 | As the mouldboards lifted and inverted the soil , the tines on the powered rotors broke up the furrow slices . |
| 10 | yds ) of surface area to which the bacteria employed in the filter to break down the waste products can adhere — and the open construction allows a good supply of atmospheric oxygen to pass through the material . |