Example sentences of "[v-ing] apart at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He writes that while the state plan of the day was ‘ coming apart at the seams ’ , Khrushchev was toying with radical reform that would reshape the Stalinist economy , and pondering sweeping changes in the constitution of 1936 . |
| 2 | ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams . |
| 3 | The voice is utterly firm , and there are no places where it gives notice of coming apart at the seams : she does not sport a ‘ separate ’ chest-register or a ‘ separate ’ floated top . |
| 4 | She was an idiot , coming apart at the seams , and she had n't written a word . |
| 5 | It was symptomatic of a system going soft , falling apart at the seams . |
| 6 | Defence cuts , NATO falling apart at the seams as a near-bankrupt Great Britain trimmed her commitment back below the survival level and the other European allies stopped considering the quality of their defensive and offensive hardware and began worrying about sharing out the contracts amongst the EEC brotherhood instead . |
| 7 | Gazing blankly at the colour chart that was thrust into her hands , she felt as though she was falling apart at the seams , as though all the muscles and tendons that were holding her body together were snapping one by one . |
| 8 | Health service falling apart at the seams , and this the moment when , instead of attacking this awful government , a number of Labour politicians have decided to attack us , the trade unions who founded the party , and loyally supported the party through thick and thin . |
| 9 | We hope the human race will continue to exist for millions of years , and grow to more understanding but , in the year 2020 , the world seems to be falling apart at the seams . ’ |