Example sentences of "have broken [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been removed from the bridge because many similar ones have broken apart as the steel rods have corroded . |
| 2 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 3 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 4 | The problem , however , was that not enough of the gaseous nebula could in fact have broken away from the embryonic sun , as later generations of astronomers were quick to point out . |
| 5 | The province 's four main tournament organisations have broken away from the controlling Northern Ireland Karate Board and have now formed a rival umbrella group of their own . |
| 6 | Security is lost and the traditional social networks have broken up in favour of the commercial nexus . |
| 7 | At successively' shorter wavelengths , IRAS sees clouds that have broken up into smaller and warmer cloudlets — as theory predicts — and the sources shining at 10 micrometres have probably completed the process and have just become stars , shining by their interior nuclear reactions . |
| 8 | ‘ I have broken up with my boyfriend and I ca n't bear to let any man touch me . |
| 9 | Her father , the Earl of Mexborough , said at his York home : ‘ I have n't spoken to her , so I do n't know if it 's true the couple have broken up . ’ |
| 10 | Her father , the Earl of Mexborough , said : ‘ I have n't spoken to her , so I do n't know if it 's true the couple have broken up . ’ |
| 11 | Her father , the Earl of Mexborough , said at his York home : ‘ I have n't spoken to her , so I do n't know if it 's true the couple have broken up . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts . |
| 14 | Not only has he again fallen flat on the ground , but his head and his hands have broken off and lie at the entrance of the building . |
| 15 | it 's , these walls have broken off there |
| 16 | but these have broken off and of course it 's dropped off |
| 17 | Times being hard , the vicious squabbles that have plagued Peru since the 1960s have broken out again , between raw-material exporters ( who want freer trade ) and manufacturers ( who want still more protection ) . |
| 18 | Perhaps there are also genes that have broken out of the sperm/egg ‘ proper channels ’ altogether and pioneered a sideways route . |
| 19 | AIR wars have broken out on the vital transatlantic routes , with British Airways , Virgin Atlantic and two big American carriers all slashing their spring fares . |
| 20 | ‘ All twenty-five ships have broken out my lord Siward 's colours . |
| 21 | Forest fires have broken out across Indonesia , causing widespread air pollution and disruption of air and sea transport . |
| 22 | Clashes have broken out in places with the locals . |
| 23 | Violent clashes have broken out in the French Pyrenees between protestors opposed to a new road tunnel and some local people in the Aspe Valley . |
| 24 | Psychologists have broken down ‘ real ’ jobs into a series of ‘ simple ’ components and have then devised tests for assessing these simpler components . |
| 25 | America and Europe have fallen out over farm trade ; as a result , the negotiations at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) have broken down . |
| 26 | Compulsory competitive tendering will be abolished , but the Quality Commission will have the power , where services have broken down , to insist that they are put out to tender , with contractors required to meet conditions such as quality thresholds and fair employment . |
| 27 | Stemmy plant fibres ( cellulose and lignins ) in cold , drought , or waterlogged conditions will take much longer , and will retard plant growth until they have broken down . |
| 28 | There are many tales of madness overcoming travellers whose cars have broken down or whose camels have died . |
| 29 | ‘ I first tried to get that kind of raspy voice that comes when the vocal cords have broken down . |
| 30 | Now that both the material framework and the routines of everyday life have broken down , now that all the established values are suddenly denied , what is the citizen of the USSR , what can he or she believe in ? |