Example sentences of "come apart [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles .
2 Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said .
3 I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion .
4 It was probable that with a type of aggravated libel , and a defence that was blatantly bogus and came apart during the trial , they decided to add a nought to the amount of damages . ’
5 Her narrow , fluid hands came apart in a wide , pitying gesture which said " My poor boy .
6 It 's coming apart on the back .
7 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 .
8 ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams .
9 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 .
10 She was an idiot , coming apart at the seams , and she had n't written a word .
11 The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally , without this indispensable fastening .
12 He had the sensation that it would come apart from the body and roll over into his hands .
13 We watch as friendships come apart at the seams , as lives of promise collapse under the weight of illness or despair or disillusion , but there is a reckless exhilaration about it all .
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