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

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1 The simplest way of changing scenes is , simply , to cut : but this is often rather drastic , and risks breaking up the flow of the film .
2 The Minister 's attitude reveals a clear determination to break up the system of comprehensive education in this country and replace it with something different .
3 In moonlight the white belly fur breaks up the outline of the hunter to perfection .
4 Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob .
5 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 .
6 The most recent idea was making a path at the side of their home incorporating large circles made of paving setts to break up the monotony of a straight path .
7 In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being .
8 A tall hotel broke up the skyline of the night .
9 My duty was to supply conversation to break up the monotony of the heat-haze on the straight roads through the bush .
10 In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left .
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