Example sentences of "broken down [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A light brown Mk II Cortina is believed to have broken down when used by the IRA unit and a black E registration Nissan Micra was seen near the barracks the night before the bombing . |
| 2 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 3 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 4 | The autumn colours come when the green pigment chlorophyll is broken down and re-absorbed into the tree . |
| 5 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 6 | Most procaryotes , using oxygen , depend on the simpler process of fermentation for their energy , where chemical food is broken down and burned inside the cell . |