Example sentences of "broke [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 2 | The sociological fantasy that pop musicians could be some sort of organic intellectuals was remarkably stubborn ; it dominated initial left-wing responses to punk , and it was only when the material basis of the fantasy — youth as class — broke down in the late 1970s recession , that different ways of conceiving pop politics began to be attractive . |
| 3 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 4 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 5 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 6 | ‘ The main reason we broke up in the '80s was that after five or six years of constant touring and recording we suddenly found we did n't like each other any more . |
| 7 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 8 | His palms were sweating , his forehead was wet and itching , he felt shivery , his voice was shaky and his heart was beating fast ; they were cooking , him with the Microwave Gun , bathing him in its evil radiations , heating him up so that he broke out in a lathering sweat and looked like a nervous kid . |
| 9 | Next day he broke out in a savage rash , but the move began to Alderney and the last , comfortable , well-solaced years . |
| 10 | In one , a disabled man who lives in Kemp Road was taken to Hartlepool General Hospital suffering from the effects of smoke after fire broke out in a neighbouring house . |
| 11 | RESIDENTS of a sheltered housing unit in Wallasey were evacuated last night after a fire broke out in a communal kitchen . |
| 12 | At one huge rave last summer , the DJ announced , ‘ Respect is due to the visuals ’ , and everyone broke out in a massive round of applause . |
| 13 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 14 | The next day clashes broke out in the occupied territories and Arab workers were prevented from entering Jerusalem . |
| 15 | Disturbances which broke out in the north-eastern city of Mashad on May 30 continued for several days , bringing the city to a standstill . |
| 16 | An argument broke out in the crowded pub after some drink was knocked over and Mr Brown tried to defuse the situation . |
| 17 | Pandemonium broke out in the graceful room . |
| 18 | If war broke out in the Far East ‘ our present forces in Korea would be a military liability and could not be maintained there without substantial reinforcement prior to the initiation of hostilities ’ . |
| 19 | In October 1973 war broke out in the Middle East . |
| 20 | The people of Cerska are among tens of thousands of Muslims encircled by Serbs in eastern Bosnia since civil war broke out in the former Yugoslav republic last March . |
| 21 | Scuffles broke out in the public gallery after victim Tony 's relatives cheered at the sentences . |
| 22 | Against a background of rising tension between Aoun 's forces and those under the command of Gen. Lahud , as well as Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia , military confrontation broke out in the Christian enclave of East Beirut in late January 1990 [ see pp. 37264-65 ] . |
| 23 | ‘ My symptoms only became apparent after 18 months — the skin of my bottom broke out in an itchy rash . |
| 24 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |