Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] break [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The clean channel is too clean , and beyond a certain volume ( which is painful ! ) the sounds starts to break up into a rough distortion ( presumably the point at which the speaker starts to flap ) . |
| 3 | ‘ There are an increasing number of executives looking to break out of the corporate hierarchy , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ There are an increasing number of executives looking to break out of the corporate hierarchy and run their own business and it appears that MBIs are catching up with MBOs as a method of achieving that goal . ’ |
| 5 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
| 6 | In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses . |
| 7 | With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals . |
| 8 | If standard steps are followed on each occasion , it should be easier to prevent mistakes occurring and ensure that the terms are incorporated into all contracts ; in addition , if the normal procedures do break down on a particular occasion , it may be possible to rely on the previous course of dealing . |
| 9 | Clashes between riot police and demonstrators had broken out during a student demonstration outside the Education Ministry on Oct. 24 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Dushanbe garrison commander ( CIS armed forces ) , Col. Vyacheslav Zabolotny , said afterwards that he had ordered tanks to the KGB headquarters to stop the violence which threatened to erupt when demonstrators attempted to break in to the building . |
| 12 | Since many negotiations seem to break down at the implementation stage it is often worth making a prior commitment to monitor progress jointly and to meet again shortly after implementation is supposed to start . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If your students need to break out of the intermediate doldrums … |
| 16 | As the roots begin to break out of the grains the barley is transferred to a vast hall heated with warm air and turned by large malt shovels . |
| 17 | ‘ We are already putting more money into free travel for the blind since the previously consistent approach to concessionary fares by borough councils started breaking down in the face of financial pressures ’ , he added . ’ |
| 18 | The generally cooperative partnership between the local states and the developers did break down over the distribution of investment profits from central shopping development . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As the number of species studied increases the simple classification into adaptive grades begins to break down as the variance within species and between species begins to exceed that between the categories described as grades . |