Example sentences of "[noun] break up [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A good example of such a breach of secrecy followed an incident in 1979 , when the until-then-secret ‘ MUFTI ’ team of specially trained prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest demonstration by prisoners in D Wing of Wormwood Scrubs .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 In developing surreptitious techniques to break up the beat monotony , superiors were not always what they seemed .
7 A fight involving 150 people led to BUF members breaking up an IFL meeting , tearing up its banner and beating up Arnold Leese and Brigadier-General Blakeney , the ex-president of the BFs .
8 As the mouldboards lifted and inverted the soil , the tines on the powered rotors broke up the furrow slices .
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