Example sentences of "break down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 2 | Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested . |
| 3 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 4 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 5 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 6 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 7 | broken down since the paper article , had n't had a sole come since that newspaper article . |
| 8 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 9 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 10 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 11 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 12 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 13 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 14 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 15 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 16 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 17 | Thus , in course of time , the artificiality of feudal organization was more and more broken down by the use of money , until in twelfth-century England , feudal service was commonly replaced by the payment of a tax , scutage , ‘ shield-money ’ . |
| 18 | The merlin population has yet to recover , because they are still affected by levels of PCBs , which are not easily broken down by the environment and are still leaking from industrial sites . |
| 19 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 20 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 21 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 22 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 23 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 24 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 25 | First , the esters procaine and centrophenoxine are immediately broken down in the body to release their DEAE and DMAE , which are the active portions of the molecules . |
| 26 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 27 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 28 | However , they will break down at the end of the black hole 's life when its mass gets very small . |
| 29 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 30 | Once the planting has been done , cover the soil with a thick mulch of crushed bark , peat or leaf mould , which will gradually break down into the soil and help to improve its texture . |