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Sentence Examples Wooden fencing round the gardens on the ground floors, already broken down and rotting, the patches inside still uncared for. During steam sterilization, cornstarch is broken down, which eases ingestion by the body, an effect that does not occur with gamma irradiation. Seniority amongst peers was often broken down into a matter of months, weeks, or even days. They were making the crossing by boat because the toll bridge had broken down, he said. How many of you would stop if you saw a motorist who had broken down by the side of the road? The channels of communication have broken down through intransigence, sheer bloody-mindedness and despair. Red blood cells are produced in the bone marrow and circulate in the bloodstream before they are broken down in the spleen. For the sake of simplicity, criminals can be broken down into two categories here. I started towards the direction of his house when a broken down blue truck pulled up next to me. We heard the tables being broken down, then the dragging and scraping of the trestles against the stone floor. Then an announcement that a freight had broken down and was blocking the approaches. This is costing them too much and they should model their systems on Scottish farms, which are now being broken down into 3 groups. Raw bean sprouts, such as alfalfa, chickpea, lentil, and mung, have natural toxins that are only broken down by cooking. His relationship with his wife has broken down and his two sons are distant and cool with him. Miller obviously is a top-drawer pivotman, but he's broken down toward the end of each of his NBA campaigns save for a truncated rookie year. As for the inorganic garbage that is disposed of every day in a household, it may be broken down right away through incineration. Details of the concordance data are given, broken down in broad categories. When animals ingest chemicals such as PCBs, the toxins are not broken down in the body but are instead stored in fatty tissue. Gas is caused by the fermentation of carbohydrates broken down by bacteria, a perfectly normal part of digestion. The owner, who had parked the car there after it had broken down, had removed the distributor cap to immobilize his car. Show More Sentences What those who are afraid of civil society breaking down don't realize is that civil society has already broken down! It takes cholesterol away from the cells and back to the liver, where it's either broken down or excreted. Later in the day, one of the workers was told by mobile phone that the boat had broken down and they would have to overnight on the island. After consumption, sucralose passes through the body without being broken down. The workers were left stranded on Saturday after their employer told them his boat had broken down and was unable to collect them. He had been forced to use his bicycle to get to work because his car had broken down on the morning of the accident. If ice does exist there, it could be harvested and used for drinking water or broken down into hydrogen and oxygen. The top panel of Figure 2 presents the median level of abstract counting with cardinal numbers, broken down by age and language. Thus, at Treblinka, the memorial to those killed consists of 17,000 granite shards surrounding a large obelisk broken down the middle. A section of fencing was broken down and advertising hoardings flattened in the stampede as rival fans charged from end to end of the pitch. The rumor mill had kicked into high gear until Calvin had broken down and spilled the news. The prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease aren't broken down by normal cooking temperatures. His campaign bus is currently broken down outside of Winnemucca with fuel tank problems. This bond of sisterhood reflects the bond of brotherhood within US infantry squads where men are broken down into smaller teams. She remembered selling him a brick of hash out of the broken down toilet stall. An existing work agreement expires on August 14 and negotiations for a new one have broken down. If done properly, the garden waste you use now will be completely broken down into lovely rich soil at winter's end. More disturbingly, however, the distinction between home and abroad has broken down. Eventually, all organisms are broken down by bacteria into nutrients that return to the environment. These loosely bonded and larger molecules are broken down into smaller molecules. Show More Sentences It glows under ultraviolet light and can be broken down so that a millimetre of hair would be enough to give an analysis. The bow and stern are still intact, with amidships broken down to the keel and the wheelhouse upside-down just off the stern. If these sugars cannot be broken down, they will sit in the large intestine and putrefy, leading to a bloated feeling and gas. A lot of the times when it's granulated it looks like those rocks you see on lawns, only more broken down, like pebbles. He added that it had not broken down, but had been involved in the recovery of another military vehicle prior to the collision. We venerate the cross because it has broken down our pride, shattered our envy, redeemed our sin, and atoned for our punishment. And one suspects that if the survey results were broken down by geographic region, it would be even less divisive in many red states. Once the old world order had broken down, in the new climate of instability, the old routines no longer worked. The hryvna is broken down into 100 kopiykas, which are issued in coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50 unit values. If each person has equal worth, the limitations on their achievement and contribution must be systematically broken down. Not all of this glyphosate is detoxified or broken down by the genetically modified soybean. Proteins are broken down into amino acids and fats are broken down into fatty acids. The result is that for most of the game the board cannot be broken down into independent components. The old rules have broken down, and no amount of hand wringing can bring them back. However, when the sample is broken down by age, there is a shift in the frequencies for bones from juvenile individuals. Departmental goals are likely to be long term, but can often be broken down into subgoals that retain potent discriminative qualities. The tournament was broken down into weight classes for men and women, as well as for righties and lefties. Although starches and fats can be broken down without pancreatic enzymes, pancreatic proteases are crucial for protein digestion. By the time she got to Florida, the car had broken down and couldn't make the long journey back. The denims are coated with a clear, rubberized coating, which is fairly rigid but can be broken down and softened in washes. Show More Sentences The text is broken down into four chapters, a glossary, lists of trees by category, and an index. Once broken down it is washed, cooled, and then made into paper using a mold and a frame called a deckle, to determine size. It is a similar picture when the detailed results are broken down by political party. It also sets out no guidelines on whether votes will be broken down by constituency or nation. Once the materials are chosen, they're collected and broken down in huge vats containing soda ash. Currently insulin cannot be taken in a pill because the hormone is broken down by powerful acids in the stomach. Crees have been negotiating for 26 years to get jurisdiction over the islands, but the talks have continuously broken down. Over the past two decades, the traditional balance between largely Arab nomads and mainly African farmers has broken down. The musical backing is similarly bare of affectation and broken down to a number of small elements, pushed to the limits of their effectiveness. Ancient patterns or templates are being broken down under the pressure of global, social and economic forces. A mile further down the street was the original boundary of the game preserve, marked off by an obsolete, broken down chainlink fence. He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter. Within two years, he believes, the law on prepublication injunctions will have broken down as the internet inevitably leaks stories out. Within the principal diagrid established by the 36 steel columns that spiral around building, each floor level is broken down into 72 five-degree modules. The Escort had broken down and was parked off the road on her drive. It seems that you will be the one blatting blinding along, and when you shunt me because I have broken down you'll claim that I shouldn't have been there. We have no combat air wing, and our air force has broken down. A kind-hearted couple sold their comfortable home to live in a tiny, broken down caravan after being moved to tears by the plight of Kenyan schoolchildren. Most are less refined than white sugar, have a slightly higher nutritional value, and tend to be broken down more slowly in the body, creating less impact on blood sugar. When using a mechanical planter, the soil is first broken down with a rototiller and then then the bulbs are planted by a special bulb planting machine. Show More Sentences He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria. It looked like a broken down missile, but we had not choice, in we went and I buckled down, praying to the Force that this rust bucket would hold together. Census figures were not broken down into ethnic or linguistic categories, although it can be estimated that several hundred thousand Omanis were of Baluchi origin. Wardens are told to ticket a distraught woman whose car has broken down. He said that it now seemed ridiculous to promote the area as a beauty spot when its most prominent features were litter, dumped cars, potholes and broken down signs. In common with other unsaturated hydrocarbons, the triple bond can be broken down with the addition of hydrogen, or a number of metals, to produce the appropriate metal salt. Every morsel of food we eat has to be broken down into nutrients that can be absorbed by the body, which is why it takes hours to fully digest food. Today, though, the economic unity of the extended family has broken down. But that changes when survey respondents are broken down by race. This year's national results were broken down by gender for the first time and showed that 54 per cent of entries were from women and 46 per cent from men. When starches and refined sugars are eaten together and undergo fermentation they are broken down into carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alcohol and water. When carbohydrates are digested, they are broken down into sugar molecules, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream, leading to an increase in blood-glucose levels. In most instances, whey proteins can be broken down by heat. During the 1930s three broken down men come together with a broken down horse and inspire a nation that things might look bad but the future can be bright. Before he finishes, he will have broken down in tears, recounting and reliving the nightmare that has been his life. The local anaesthetic is harmlessly broken down within a few hours. In their turn the herbivores are eaten by carnivores or by scavengers and, eventually, all organisms are broken down by bacteria into nutrients that return to the environment. In buildings, fungi attack dead organic material, which in nature would fall to the forest floor and be broken down as part of the nitrogen cycle. Atoms were changeless and ultimate, in the sense that they could not be broken down into anything smaller and had no inner structure on which their properties depended. By anaerobic bacterial action, sulphates are reduced to sulphides and organic material is broken down, ultimately to yield carbon dioxide and methane. Show More Sentences Carbohydrates are broken down to simple sugars by pancreatic amylase. These have been broken down by climatologists into four main periods. The other issue is that social life appears to be too complex to be broken down into simple component parts that can then be examined in isolation. When I'd broken down, which hadn't happened often but when it did it hit with fierce intensity, she'd been there for me, comforting me in the dark. The relief of tracing Maggie into the forests of Palet was soon dispelled when Cirrus received the phone call from his train conductor that they were broken down. Each sentence we speak has a pitch contour associated with it that can be broken down into smaller sequences of elementary contours associated with linguistic phenomena. Social discipline has broken down, the economy is gasping for life and people's emotions are being provoked into ever-threatening spirals of discord and violence. Negotiations over reducing pay differentials have broken down. The wreck lies on an even keel, but is mostly broken down to the seabed. The new machines carried the day and the exclusiveness of skilled workers, who had established an almost dynastic monopoly of some crafts, was broken down. The poor loveable dope probably forgot that his car was still broken down. Disassemblers may be constructed that allow virtually any substance to be broken down into its molecular components. From dorm furniture to college notebooks, things get beat up and broken down amidst the haphazardness of dorm life. The Wrays each raised an action against the other, claiming the marriage had irretrievably broken down. Total GDP can also be broken down into the contribution of each industry or sector of the economy. The quest is broken down into a number of episodes that progress in a linear sequence, each with its own subquest and major challenge at the end. The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden. The University is divided into five Colleges and these are then broken down into Schools and Research Institutes. The extraction combines six stages that could be broken down into some other substages. Clopidogrel and ticlopidine are relatively slow-acting because they must be broken down by the liver before they inhibit clotting. Show More Sentences Dietary fibre refers to substances in plant foods which cannot be completely broken down by human digestive enzymes. The study also found that oil already broken down by wave action and chemical dispersants was more toxic than fresh oil. Dietary TG are first broken down into monoacylglycerides and fatty acids by a host of pancreatic lipases. In extravascular hemolysis, splenic macrophages phagocytose RBCs, releasing hemoglobin, which is then broken down into heme. The drug GHB is broken down in the body into Gamma Butyrolactone and can induce symptoms including euphoria, confusion and unconsciousness. Information about the area of England, the largest country, is also broken down by region. Normally, the liver turns alcohol into the hangover-causing compound called acetaldehyde which is then broken down by a metabolising enzyme. Most of the tournaments are for rough fish, and they're broken down into either the heaviest stringer or the total number of fish. The pills can cause muscle aches and rhabdomyolysis, when muscle is broken down. The remaining shell is cut into pieces and broken down by an industrial shredder so that the aluminium can be melted down. The data becomes especially illuminating when broken down into the types of offenses for which offenders recidivate. Using the ready reckoner, which can be found on the Association's AOP's website, each month is broken down into a series of goals. The extant works of Aristotle are broken down according to the five categories in the Corpus Aristotelicum. While they were helping the broken down drivers a taxi crashed into the back of the stationary police car. Thus, when fatty acids are being broken down for energy, all of the remaining glucose is made available for use by the brain. Each example is broken down into an introduction, clearly defined objectives, and elucidative examples of how to teach them. Their alliance with the Scottish Covenanters had also broken down, and the Scots crowned Charles II as king. Proteins can be hydrolyzed to their amino acids, and can be broken down into simpler forms by proteolytic enzymes. Agency adjudication was broken down further into two distinct phases of formal and informal adjudication. Malin Hernebring found damaged proteins in the cells are probably broken down by molecular machines called proteasomes. Show More Sentences Their marriage having broken down in 1604, his wife Elizabeth went on to become a formidable protagonist and thorn in his side. Even salt is chemically broken down and rebuilt for optimum flavor. Farmer Jones is in straits because his baler is broken down and he's got three fields of hay ready to bale. The murder of children is broken down by age and gender, and so is the murder of women. By soaking the batter overnight the grain is broken down, which results in a softer and more digestible pancake or pikelet. It is further broken down into fourteen events for men and four events for women, each representing a different weight class. The report noted that formal systems for the provision of justice were weak or broken down in places like Swat. The former are unanalysable, and are broken down into primary and secondary qualities. Protein intake, for example, causes an excess of toxins of amine groups when it is broken down for energy. Finally, May arrives in a Peugeot 304 S Cabriolet which arrives already broken down. He states that during times of carnival and festival, male power is broken down. Many trees produce resin, but in the majority of cases this deposit is broken down by physical and biological processes. Estimates of the usually resident population of Scotland rounded to the nearest thousand, broken down by age and sex. Unemployment can be generally broken down into several types that are related to different causes. Where data is broken down by geographical area, this is usually done by the areas defined in the ONS geographical coding system. She yielded resistlessly, every fibre of her being quivering responsive to the overwhelming passion of love which had at last stormed and broken down all barriers. While Reading probed with passes and lost markers through movement, there was an unbudging red wall on the edge of their area that was not broken down until the death. By the time the album was being recorded, relationships between the band and Lambert and Stamp had broken down irreparably, and Bill Curbishley replaced them. In what ways can each subsystem be broken down into further subsystems? There is no waste dump at the surface, and none of the contents of the lode as yet broken down have been so poor in silver as to be thrown away or used for gobbing up. Show More Sentences This residue is largely comprised of zircon and columbite along with any silicate gangue minerals that have not broken down during the acid bake process. When those samples were heated, they still gave off oxygen, ut less of it, suggesting the presence of a chemical oxidant that was broken down by heat. The presence of these decomposers means that there is still some organic material being slowly broken down releasing nutrients as foods pass through their digestive tracts. These carotenoids are broken down into pigments by liver enzymes. Brilliant, multicolored illustrations broken down into simple shapes and contrasting shades in a manner reminiscent of Picasso make the simple story come alive. And now my car's broken down too. It's just one thing after another. Although many jokes have been concocted to exhibit ZESA's alleged shoddiness, many now realize that the problem goes beyond a broken down generator. The Home Office Research and Statistics Division publishes an annual report with statistics on grants of British citizenship broken down by type and former nationality. After both lifeboats had returned to their station the volunteers noticed a broken down vehicle at the slipway and the tide was coming in rapidly. Like his brother, he was suffering from exhaustion, but his relationship with King had broken down once again and they now found it difficult to work together. The introduction of lifts in 2010 made the taxi rank and underground station accessible from the concourse, though customers found them unreliable and frequently broken down. Examples from Classical Literature They try to reform Society as an old lady might try to restore a broken down locomotive by prodding it with a knitting needle. This one is now bizzy for Gineral Burnside, and here is this ere one completely broken down. Woburn had broken down the door, and stood torn and breathless in the breach. When ketose monosaccharides are submitted to similar oxidation processes, they are broken down into shorter chain compounds. Let me mention some of the stone walls that men permit to be broken down when they backslide. Mollie paced up and down like a bedlamite, sobbing and scolding to herself, and quite broken down with one day's imprisonment. It had broken down just before he reached the embarcadero, and he had been obliged to row ashore. The least trace of softness in his voice would, I think, have broken down my temper. If I had broken down after that, I should have been his grubber for the next seven years at half wages and double grind. If they can be broken down the shawnees will take many scalps and prisoners. It is easily broken down by many substances into ethyl chloride and carbon dioxide. Also the crew of the nonesuch couldn't make out where the plan had broken down. Belgium had definitely broken down the barriers of feudalism. Here they heard that the bridge over the Avon at Keynsham was broken down. All barriers were broken down, and she clung to him and cried. The line of communication between Los Angeles and Lower California had broken down. Looking for a duck coaxer or goose beckoner is a breeze online, with calls broken down by brand, style and even species. He knew what he was going to say was humiliating, but he was broken down with jealousy and desire. No one wants to employ old people who are broken down in health, as we are. Another broken down vehicle on the A1027 close to the slip road with the A19 was also reported. Show More Sentences A MAN was taken to hospital after the car he was driving ploughed into the back of a broken down vehicle. Several cars were broken down in the garage and others within yards of the station. He was twenty-three and Nellie sixteen when, worn out and broken down before her time, her resistance completely undermined, Mrs. To him came these men broken down, some on the verge of insanity. I have still a youthful air, it is true, but I feel old, and within six months I am certain I shall be broken down, gouty, impotent. Haziness comes from suspended pectin particles, which can be broken down by pectinases. The training objectives at CET are broken down into bite-size components and subcomponents. But some buses queued back up Ramsden Street and High Street for more than an hour until a recovery vehicle was called out to tow the broken down bus. The same applies to the casting, which as the sand lumps are broken down, comes into contact with the deck and is cleared of cores and adhering sand. I am quite broken down with anxiety, and confined to my bed. Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete. Find more words! 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