Example sentences of "break [adv prt] [conj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system of setting limits to public spending had broken down because of the following : |
| 2 | Although he wrote just after the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties , he rejected the idea that capitalism would break down because of a lack of investment opportunities and a reduction in the real rate of profit . |
| 3 | More second marriages break down because of the children of the partners than for any other single cause . |
| 4 | There is evidence from Finland that despite the gains made in achieving integration , it is breaking down because of the introduction of specialist foresters and sophisticated machinery . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson 's mistake was that when formal monetary targeting broke down because of the impossibility of finding any measure of money which bore an accurate relationship with nominal demand , he thought that he could use the exchange rate as an informal target . |
| 6 | The third mechanism , that of the price agreement , upon which management placed much reliance in single-place working , also broke down because of the detailed breakdown of jobs . |
| 7 | Mr Piedboeuf said : ‘ The worst damage was that our computers broke down because of the heavy load . |
| 8 | From Vitebsk it was heard that a railway-wagon workshop meeting convened on 30 March with the aim of helping in the requisition of church valuables broke up because of the ‘ thunderous outcries of believers ’ . |