Example sentences of "have break [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees .
2 An argument has broken out over the royalty rate paid to artists for each copy of both DCC and another new format , MiniDisc .
3 A ROW has broken out over an exhibition of photography by lesbians .
4 The scenario for the training exercise ; a fire has broken out under a container carrying spent nuclear fuel by rail from Oldbury power station to Sellafield for reprocessing .
5 With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals .
6 A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel .
7 While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House .
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 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 .
10 The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby .
11 But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day .
12 ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black .
13 In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs .
14 Clashes between riot police and demonstrators had broken out during a student demonstration outside the Education Ministry on Oct. 24 .
15 Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class .
16 The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women .
17 The demonstrations were the most serious in Jordan since April 1989 , when rioting had broken out after the imposition of austerity measures [ see p. 36602 ] .
18 During a two-day hearing , they had been told that a town centre disturbance had broken out after the quarter-final Scottish Junior Cup match between Beith and Vale of Leven on 28 March last year .
19 On the evening of Saturday 30 January , a fire had broken out in a process area on the mezzanine floor of the building .
20 Only after hunger and labour strikes had broken out throughout the country in early May did the government finally agree to enter into negotiations with the opposition ( under the framework of a Consultative Council ) to seek a consensus on draft reform legislation .
21 As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness .
22 One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been .
23 It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been .
29 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 .
30 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
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