Example sentences of "it [vb mod] break [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Other areas where it may break down are areas of high biological activity for example tropical reef flats very high biological activity there , very high demand for calcium carbonate to build all those coral skeletons , so carbonate will be stripped out .
2 However , there seems to be no reason why it should break down until the gravitational field becomes strong enough that quantum gravitational effects are important .
3 This period saw the beginning of attempts by conferences of representatives of states to draw up treaties or conventions on different aspects of the law of armed conflict , what is referred to as the jus in bello , that is , the rules of how war should be waged if it should break out .
4 A world geared to war was unlikely to question why it should break out .
5 The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all .
6 But the tail of the Mary Alice looked as though it might break off completely any minute and was causing such a drag that we had to fly back on our own .
7 Only seven positions will be lost in the UK , and the 235-strong Bristol-based operation says it 'll break out its year-end figures from overall Dun & Bradstreet Software numbers for the first time on December 11 .
8 not quite right , but if I go it 'll break back off .
9 You would a Bosnia immediately , it would break up , send the U N in , look what it 's done in Bosnia .
10 Until recently , it was considered safe and environmentally acceptable to dump household waste in the ground where , left to decay , it would break down into harmless by-products and cause no problems .
11 The government says it will break up state monopolies , liberalise prices , set up an independent central bank and introduce a single rouble exchange rate .
12 The process constitutes a national threat because it will break up the United Kingdom .
13 Therefore it seems to me that the communist party really has to disappear , it 's a good thing that it 's own general secretary has disbanded it , I anticipate that it will break up into a number of political parties , perhaps one kind of social democratic party on the left and another , if you like a kind of Russian unionist party , on the right , erm , but as the communist party it 's simply incompatible with the emergence of democracy in the Soviet Union .
14 it will break down bureaucratic procedures ;
15 Even at its most basic it can break up a plain stocking stitch garment or it can be used as an all-over pattern there are numerous ways of arranging the cables to form different patterns .
16 So and it can break up a long session it can it can maintain interest .
17 I mentioned that motherhood is a great leveller , and it is true that it can break down all sorts of social barriers .
18 It can break down what is often the false generality of a ‘ whole way of life ’ to discriminate ascriptions to specific classes and other groups .
19 the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage .
20 Knowing how these processes are organized will help us develop better computer systems for object naming , in addition to helping us understand how object naming develops in children , and how it can break down after brain damage .
21 Moreover , it can break down some 50 kilograms of CFCs per hour , compared to 0.8 kilograms under current methods .
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