Example sentences of "break up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from legislation which might break up the unity of imperial law , some colonial legislation was likely to affect the interests of people in Britain directly . |
| 2 | It 's just a little bit sort of er the waves themselves are nice but I think they do need something else in it just to erm break up the linearity of the er er , of the composition . |
| 3 | In the United States during the 1920s , job security and internal ‘ job ladders ’ ( i.e. promotion from within the firm ) began to be introduced , it has been claimed , partly in order to differentiate ( the semi-skilled ) labour force and break up the sense of solidarity that united a firm 's workers in collective opposition to their employer — and they were to prove particularly effective in forestalling unionism ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | They break up the flow of a race track and demand a less gung-go , more confined approach . |
| 5 | Intelligence operates , in fact , through concepts which break up the flow of our experience , classifying it by isolated , lifeless categories , such as cause and effect , beginning and end , subject and object , and so on . |
| 6 | Somehow the outside world had intruded and broken up the fabric of the tale . |
| 7 | It 's the children themselves in the homes who 'd graffitied the walls , broken up the fabric of the homes . |
| 8 | The work of the symbolic , of the American television institution , in articulating this technical and imaginary possibility is to break it , interrupt , withdraw by separating the text into saleable parts , breaking up the promise of coherence and wholeness into short sessions , as it were , constantly jerking us out of the dream of coherent signifieds into the world of the endless play of signifiers . |
| 9 | The simplest way of changing scenes is , simply , to cut : but this is often rather drastic , and risks breaking up the flow of the film . |
| 10 | just breaking up the pieces of stone . |
| 11 | In moonlight the white belly fur breaks up the outline of the hunter to perfection . |
| 12 | It becomes ‘ automatic ’ and an attempt to introspect the components of skilled movement often breaks up the quality of the performance . |
| 13 | Pevsner says it is like an overgrown bungalow and with its generous lawns breaks up the texture of the old High Street and the adjacent 18th century Magnolia House . |
| 14 | A tall hotel broke up the skyline of the night . |
| 15 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 16 | The traditional explanation is that the stripes act as camouflage and help to break up the shape of the animal , concealing its body from the eyes of hungry predators . |
| 17 | Disruptive markings help to break up the shape of an animal 's body in any environment that is full of irregular detail , as in the case of this well concealed crab . |
| 18 | The Minister 's attitude reveals a clear determination to break up the system of comprehensive education in this country and replace it with something different . |
| 19 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 20 | My duty was to supply conversation to break up the monotony of the heat-haze on the straight roads through the bush . |
| 21 | For many it was something to break up the monotony of camp-life . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 24 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 25 | Some back-row moves would certainly help to break up the pattern of play , but they must have a solid scrum first . |