Example sentences of "[noun pl] to break [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 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 addition , the three-digit minimum of the Dewey system has been contracted to eliminate unnecessary zeros , and the decimal point appears after every three digits to break up the number . |
| 7 | In developing surreptitious techniques to break up the beat monotony , superiors were not always what they seemed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You were unable to arouse Sir Thomas so you asked the servants to break down the door ? ’ |
| 10 | ISS makes proposals to break down the barriers that often exist between teachers and parents , to improve the extent and quality of communication between school and home , and to increase parental involvement with the child 's learning . |
| 11 | The secret to successful royal icing is to beat the mixture for at least 15 minutes to break down the sugar so that the cake cuts well . |
| 12 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |
| 13 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 14 | After years of tortuous study , absurdly limited measures to break down the barriers between banks and brokers have been proposed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 17 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 18 | Officials had to send for special chemicals to break down the tar and free the vehicles . |
| 19 | Septic tanks are more like miniature sewage works and rely on the action of bacteria to break down the sewage into harmless liquid and sludge . |