Example sentences of "break [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are ruminants and have special structures in their stomachs ( the rumen ) , containing special micro-organisms which can break down the hard parts of the plants . |
| 2 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 3 | The general appearance of the area is a drab one : there are few green spaces and few trees break up the uniform lines of terraced and semi-detached housing . |
| 4 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |
| 5 | A strong sense of regional identity characterises the Boards and has undoubtedly assisted in breaking down the traditional divisions between capital and labour . |
| 6 | Breaking down the traditional expectations of where parents send their children could include leaflet drops encouraging families to use the facilities of the school . |
| 7 | From ‘ above ’ , a left government could attempt to gain control over the deployment of investment funds , in particular the surplus income of the personal sector , while from ‘ below ’ workers could struggle for democratic control over the particular enterprises which employ them , breaking down the managerial hierarchies and commercial secrecy of these enterprises . |
| 8 | Bacteria and fungi go to work breaking down the dead organisms ' protein into amino acids and converting them into ammonia , a useful source of nutrition . |
| 9 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 10 | The kind of novel learning environment that is characteristic of the pilot CPVE schemes now being implemented , which breaks down the traditional barriers of subjects , compartmentalized lessons and didactic teaching , may well spread rapidly into other areas of the school 's work . |
| 11 | From the management 's point of view , any technology that breaks down the old lines of demarcation ( and reduces the number of employees ) is a good investment . |
| 12 | After obliging the last autonomous ruler of the Ukrainian heartland to resign ( in 1764 ) and breaking up the Ukrainian Cossacks ( in 1775 ) , Catherine the Great had subjected Ukrainians to the poll tax and extended to their territory her reform of Russian provincial administration . |
| 13 | She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze . |
| 14 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 15 | An extraordinary rainfall , ‘ greater and more violent than any within the memory of witnesses ’ broke down the artificial embankments and the rush of escaping water carried away four bridges in respect of which damage the plaintiff sued . |
| 16 | The farmers affected broke up the new flood-banks , and after being arrested initially , were released on the grounds that the enclosure commissioners had exceeded their powers in constructing the drainage works . |
| 17 | He was , he said , threatened with murder ; and when he travelled round his diocese he was preceded by a troop of horse which broke up the illegal meetings . |
| 18 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 19 | The English archers broke up the Scottish positions and the Earl of Dunbar and Robert the Steward fled with their troops . |
| 20 | Well du when the war broke out the all bakers up to the age of twenty seven was reserved . |
| 21 | The digestive system of the cat is less successful in this respect and often fails to break down the dangerous elements in ingested substances to make them harmless . |
| 22 | It 's hard enough to break down the old prejudices — I know that from experience . |
| 23 | Much of that radiation would have been potentially damaging : liable to break down the organic molecules of which those early organisms were composed . |
| 24 | He did much to break down the cultural barriers inherent in Bobby 's background , replacing his love of Walt Disney with an interest in French films . |
| 25 | The obverse of Employee Involvement is Participative Management , Ford 's attempt to break down the organizational barriers between management hierarchies . |
| 26 | Attempts were made to root out those businessmen who had supported Hitler and to break up the industrial cartels which had provided the materials for the German war efforts . |
| 27 | June 1941 , German forces launched their surprise attack and were able to break up the Russian formations and take a huge number of prisoners . |
| 28 | Conservative privatisation was supposed to break up the big monopolies and make them more competitive and accountable to the public empty propaganda indeed . |
| 29 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
| 30 | The trust contemplates many benefits for patients , including continuing the systematic assessments and the reductions in institutional accommodation , and has plans to break up the large wards and to increase the staff-patient ratio . |