Example sentences of "[art] [noun] break [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A touch of Wella High Hair Soft Wax was rubbed through the hair to break up the texture and smooth down the coarseness of the hair . |
| 2 | The poet breaking down the barricades Radio . |
| 3 | If the crampons are horizontal , even if the ice breaks then the points should bite again lower down if the angle is maintained as the boot drops . |
| 4 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When the marriage broke down the husband asked the wife to leave the matrimonial home . |
| 7 | When the war broke out the queen , who was Charles 's sister , was treated with some suspicion : her lands were seized and her servants sent to various religious houses throughout the country . |
| 8 | As the meeting broke up the conversation turned to Archer 's party . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gaunt had used the strength of his position as the representative of the king to break up the opposition and to reassert the authority of the crown . |
| 11 | The protesters broke down the parliament 's doors and said they would occupy it until the leaders of all three ethnic communities resigned . |
| 12 | You were unable to arouse Sir Thomas so you asked the servants to break down the door ? ’ |
| 13 | After the police broke up the meeting the demonstration turned to violence and looting ; more than 1,000 people were arrested as rioting spread to other towns . |
| 14 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 15 | The ability to break down the analysis by location and function enabled assessments to be made of the likely organisational consequences of a given set of boundaries as well as the effect on the overall and grade specific grading changes . |
| 16 | The mosquitoes broke up the party . |
| 17 | Lovley reported that it has not been determined how the bacteria break down the chemicals , but he speculated that they are converted into carbon dioxide and chloride or fluoride salts . |
| 18 | However , the chromaticism of the series breaks up the association with classicism to a large degree . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The chemicals break down the faeces and obviously kill any bacteria present . |
| 21 | On the night of Saturday 27 June a gang broke down the door of one of the galleries of the unguarded archaeological museum on the Cycladic island of Paros and stole eighteen exhibits , mostly marble figurines , dated to the Cycladic early Bronze Age ( 3200–2100 BC ) , with an estimated value of just under £300,000 . |
| 22 | So , in summary , we 're looking for a clear site , exposed to wind , preferably on rising ground or on beach dunes where there are no buildings to break up the breeze . |
| 23 | Bring to the boil , chopping through the mixture with a spoon to break up the tomatoes and pears . |
| 24 | Every object breaks once the limit of its resilience has been passed . |
| 25 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |