Example sentences of "breaking up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prince himself was ready now to shake her out of it — he was fond of her , even then , always was ; breaking up a family seemed inconceivable to him , a form of hell , a madness . |
| 2 | I gathered my presence was breaking up a beautiful picture of Lee and Gloria . |
| 3 | The element of time is a chief cause of those difficulties in economic investigations which make it necessary for man with his limited powers to go step by step ; breaking up a complex question , studying one bit at a time , and at last combining his partial solutions into a more or less complete solution of the whole riddle . |
| 4 | PC Holt was hit in the face with a hammer and needed four hours surgery after breaking up a fight in the Royal Well area of the town . |
| 5 | But , early yesterday , the Belfast Brigade confirmed it was breaking up a move welcomed by the Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams . |
| 6 | Mr Morton , who has made many speeches on the need for an integrated and planned transport policy , would in any case be unlikely to relish the job of breaking up the rail network . |
| 7 | Berle hoped to have the British blamed for breaking up the conference , as he knew he had the support of the Latin American states and some European countries . |
| 8 | The Government is also facing growing pressure from its own right wing to inject a more competitive structure into the generating industry in the wake of this week 's withdrawal of nuclear power from the privatisation package — by breaking up the proposed duopoly of National Power and PowerGen . |
| 9 | A snag is that breaking up the network into such small pieces might produce large diseconomies of scale in buying rolling-stock . |
| 10 | So the war came at last , at exactly 6.35:24 pm on January 16 , 1991 , when Peter Jennings interrupted a canned piece to announce that explosions and flashes were breaking up the Baghdad night . |
| 11 | The Simpsons started life as animated shorts breaking up the sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show . |
| 12 | The work of the symbolic , of the American television institution , in articulating this technical and imaginary possibility is to break it , interrupt , withdraw by separating the text into saleable parts , breaking up the promise of coherence and wholeness into short sessions , as it were , constantly jerking us out of the dream of coherent signifieds into the world of the endless play of signifiers . |
| 13 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 14 | One of the side shows which brought unfortunate consequences for me , was ‘ Breaking up the Happy Home ’ . |
| 15 | The following morning I got Dad 's step-ladder out , put some of his flowerpots from the greenhouse on the steps and was having a lovely time with my own version of ‘ Breaking up the Happy Home ’ when the sound of pots smashing brought my carnival to an end . |
| 16 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 17 | What is behind the bishops ' and archdeacons ' reluctance even to consider breaking up the boundaries seems to be a desire to maintain a mixture of middle , high and low churches and not upset the balance . |
| 18 | It also allows frost to permeate the soil , aiding the infiltration of rain and essential for breaking up the clods into manageable sizes . |
| 19 | The vibration from breaking up the concrete floor certainly would disturb your fish but there is also the added problem of lime dust from the work contaminating the pond . |
| 20 | Breaking up the concrete driveway came next to make way for lawns , borders and a pond . |
| 21 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 22 | Breaking up the confused concourse of horsemen into three echelons of a sort , in the darkness and without much noise and shouting , was a problem , and no very exact division resulted . |
| 23 | He attacked the fire again , breaking up the turf . |
| 24 | In the opinion of Paul Whitfield , Deputy Chairman of Bonham 's , the cost structures of a company such as Sotheby 's are inappropriate to the present recessionary climate , but dismantling them is impossible without breaking up the company — one possible solution in his opinion . |
| 25 | This includes breaking up the worm clumps by agitation with a stick and then thoroughly washing the worms under a slow-flowing tap for at least five minutes . |
| 26 | Even as AT&T decentralised and halved its hourly workforce from the size it was when the government gave the firm its present shape by breaking up the Bell system in 1984 , AT&T has set up hundreds of worker-manager committees — on quality control , re-engineering its operations and a host of other issues . |
| 27 | This is mainly dealing with the Social Fund which as you know , is erm , go undergoing changes , which means er loss of money and breaking up the fundings to twelve monthly amounts , which is creating great difficulties . |
| 28 | Islands to the SSW were breaking up the swell , but the wind was funnelling between them to create a very steep and confused sea . |
| 29 | A good way of breaking up the detailed explanation is to add a quotation or two in this section . |
| 30 | Imagine yourself breaking up the earth with your hands ; imagine its feel . |