Example sentences of "[noun] breaks [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 2 | Women face impossible difficulties in trying to combine the roles of mother , paid worker and unpaid domestic worker , and when marriage breaks down the consequences are obvious in terms of the vulnerability of lone mothers and their children to poverty . |
| 3 | Firstly , karateka are not allowed to bring their own coaches with them to training sessions because experience has shown that the presence of other coaches breaks up the training atmosphere , and causes people to separate to far corners instead of remaining together . |
| 4 | In moonlight the white belly fur breaks up the outline of the hunter to perfection . |
| 5 | This may be achieved where cobbling makes drivers aware of the presence of pedestrians , where a tree breaks up the straight line of the centre of the road or where narrowings make drivers proceed especially slowly and carefully . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shunning the old , elitist image of the string quartet , Brodsky breaks down the barriers presenting great music from the string quartet literature . |
| 8 | When Rebekah suggests that Jacob take his brother 's place , or when Potiphar 's wife tries to seduce Joseph , or Tamar calls attention to Judah 's progeny , their interference breaks up the exclusive father-son dialogue and forces recognition of their presence … . |
| 9 | A special laser breaks down the pigment molecules in the skin , which are then absorbed by the body without scarring . |
| 10 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 11 | IN PRINT : How to Plan , Purchase , and Produce Print breaks down the complicated publication process into an easy-to-follow , step-by-step sequence . |
| 12 | In ‘ Questions of genre ’ he has returned to such fundamental terms of genre poetics as expectation , verisimilitude institutional discourses and practices specific to cinema ; his essay on the American war film breaks down the homogeneous generality of a single film genre into particular typologies of form , structure and discourse which play out particular regimes of power and ideology . |
| 13 | Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler . |
| 14 | Reed beds offer a highly effective treatment because bacteria living within the root system breaks down the effluent into water , nitrogen and carbon dioxide . |
| 15 | However , the chromaticism of the series breaks up the association with classicism to a large degree . |
| 16 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |