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  • In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
  • Having your house broken into is terrible. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
  • The junior deckhand on duty had fallen asleep, chronically fatigued after his eight hours' sleep in the previous 24 hours were broken into three periods.
  • In a second the whole sword was broken in pieces and Kashiro's attack continued.
  • They are blessed with speed, agility and a very pleasing nature and broken in by the old and traditional way of the herdsmen, the gauchos.
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  • But in his eyes Kieran saw dislike and disgust - at him as well as the others who had broken in.
  • The difficulties of our road now increased, "if _road_ that might be called, which road was none," but black loose ashes, and masses of scoria and lava heaped in ridges, or broken into hollows in a manner not to be described. The Diary of an Ennuyée
  • A Foreign Office minister said that the export of bio materials had not broken international rules.
  • A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
  • Thieves had broken into the car in broad daylight and stolen the stereo.
  • Relationships once broken in this way may take a long time to heal.
  • Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence.
  • He denied under cross-examination that they had broken into the nursery.
  • It was then shown the correct diagnosis in each case, broken into five categories, ranging from flatulence to angina.
  • All Trident Ploughshares protesters, who have broken into Faslane to attack Trident submarines, have been armed with hammers designed to destroy the subs' sensitive computer equipment.
  • The pastern was broken into several pieces, but it did not break the skin.
  • Complex modeling, simulation, and engineering tasks are often broken into pieces and assigned to multiple systems.
  • A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
  • It is true that most cases can be solved through negotiations but sometimes the marriage is broken in law terms irretrievable break down of marriage. Collaborative Family Law v. The Hartshornes : Law is Cool
  • Of the vehicles broken into, 28.5% were parked in a garage, shed, driveway or yard.
  • Anyone who has ever come home to the sick feeling of being broken into will know that this is a crime that can cause lasting upset and unease.
  • The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state. Planet Sun
  • They tortured him until he was broken in spirit.
  • This grandly titled traditional animation from DreamWorks centres on an untamed horse in the old Wild West which is captured by the army and harshly broken in to join the cavalry.
  • The frames were split into small pieces of bluewood and the benches chopped into kindling and the immense sharp knife broken into bits. Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies
  • The mosquito netting is broken in every single window and there are discarded surgical gloves on the ground. I just wanted to know.
  • An armory near Islamabad was broken into a couple of months ago. FALLOUT
  • The burglar had broken in through a window.
  • In the meanwhile a new drummer was broken in, hence the material that figures here.
  • Wrap it up well so it doesn't get broken in the mail.
  • Somebody had broken into the house, kicked in the door of her study and kicked a hole in the wall opposite, leaving the very clear print of a size 10 boot.
  • When an ear of corn is broken in half, the tip half shows the smooth endosperm.
  • If the backsaw had been made as hard as the other saws, it likely would have broken in use, since, as noted before, the teeth were too brittle to set as it is.
  • The first layer is what I call target hardening, which is anything you do to prevent or cause delays in your house being broken into, such as deadbolt locks, things of that nature. CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2006
  • Nearly half say they or an immediate family member have had their home broken into or burglarized.
  • It is very important to check you are up to date with your tetanus jabs if your skin is broken in an injury or you are bitten.
  • I worked out that about 60% of each of its lateral surfaces was occupied by the fossae that housed lateral air sacs, and because the specimen is broken in half I could also see that very little of its interior was filled up by internal bony struts: most of it would have been air. Archive 2006-07-01
  • The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
  • The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
  • A nose broken in his youth made him look more like a stevedore than a lawyer. TIES THAT BIND
  • You'll see neat and tidy chapters, broken into subsets on theory, mechanics, and practice.
  • Investigators found the inverters' internal fuses broken but not melted or burned, leading them to believe they were broken in flight.
  • It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines.
  • Kinship terms can also be broken into components, such as the term ‘father’, and this could be associated with various ‘connotations - positive or negative… [for] each of the following relationships: generation, collaterality, sex, relative age, affinity etc’.
  • Federal officers arranged for a call to the resident of a third-floor apartment in this seaside city to say that his storage locker had been broken into.
  • Commandments broken in a general smash; such rogueries and knaveries as no storyteller could invent; such murders and robberies as Thurtell or Turpin scarce ever perpetrated; — were by my informant accurately remembered, and freely related, respecting his nearest kindred, to any one who chose to hear him. The Virginians
  • A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
  • Her neck was broken in an automobile accident 13 years ago.
  • In the south, smaller pasta such as fusilli or orecchiette are common, as is ziti (long tubular pasta, often broken into pieces for baked dishes).
  • BP said that it did not do the other centralizer tests because the correct pieces of equipment were not available that night, and those on hand might have broken into pieces. Costly drilling effort might have rushed BP and Transocean on safety measures
  • And the companie shall do well hereafter in taking of seruants to be sent hither, to see that they be such as haue discretion, and be something broken in the world, and seene in the trade of merchandise, and one (if they can get some such) as can speake the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Her house was broken into last week.
  • Existing lots are not patrolled, which is why a friend of mine gets dropped off by his wife, instead of driving, because his car was broken into. [/quote:] Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • When we're not sensually crumbling a Flake, enjoying some feminine "me-time", we're heartbroken in pyjamas, spooning chocolate ice cream into our communal mouths. The truth about men, women and food
  • ‘Last Friday, between 1pm and 3pm, two garages were broken into by thieves who used bolt croppers.’
  • The local school was broken into, a man and woman were viciously assaulted, another family had to summon help to prevent their house being broke into and car stolen.
  • His skull was fractured and his legs were broken in what investigators believe was a fall from a nearby cliff.
  • New recruits are often broken in by repeated drilling on the square.
  • The egg may be broken into a bowl, then buttered and salted; or set in an egg cup, small end up, in which case the shell is circularly crackled by tapping with the back of a knife half an inch below the tip, then opened with a thrust of the blade.
  • And finally, let's stop to consider exactly which law would be broken in an escape from detention.
  • The only problem is that Josie is one step ahead of him and has already broken in to remove the evidence.
  • The other side however is broken in about 4 parts and jagged bits of bone are sticking out.
  • Early on Tuesday morning, employees of the South Park branch of Biochim Bank found that thieves had broken into the vault of the bank and robbed more than 40 deposit boxes.
  • At the Passover meal Jesus shared with his disciples this night, the pure unleavened bread was broken into quarter portions, and one portion, called the afikomen, was hidden away in a cloth and laid aside. Maundy Thursday: Mass and Priesthood
  • They later found that the writing bureau had been broken into but nothing has been stolen.
  • Omani Riyal is divided into 1000 Baizas and is broken into denominations of 100, 200 and 500 baizas.
  • Burglars had broken in while we were away on holiday.
  • On Thursday morning last Ardagh Post Office was broken into by a number of raiders who fled away in the direction of Rathkeale.
  • Spanning the watercourse was a beautiful multiarched aqueduct bridge built in the Carthaginian style, but sadly it was horribly broken in the middle. Seven Deadly Wonders
  • We discovered things that were broken in the sub-surface," said a BP official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Oil could spew until August, officials say
  • She plays a pregnant girl training to become a mechanic, and the clunky boots she's wearing today are being broken in for the shoot.
  • She was, he tells us, as indeed she had been in the preceding feudal centuries, often what we should nowadays call a virago, of violent temperament, with vivid passions, broken in from childhood to all physical exercises, sharing the pleasures and dangers of the knights around her. On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
  • In a wanton act of vandalism their car was broken into and rendered undrivable.
  • A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
  • Sadly, pathetically, while he was hospitalised his neat single storey home was broken into and ransacked in an obvious search for money.
  • While a further €23m has now been allocated to the ‘package’, as announced by the Minister, it is the position of the Department that this package needs to be broken into phasing.
  • In the 37th minute, the scoring lapse was broken in some style as Conor Phelan made a magnificent catch before sending the ball between the posts.
  • With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces.
  • Elia has already broken into the Dutch national team and is being backed to be a regular in their World Cup line-up.
  • New recruits are often broken in by repeated drilling on the square.
  • Had he only robbed the mail-coach, or broken into a gentleman's house, the offence might have been expiable; but to rob a clergyman, and a rector too! Paul Clifford — Complete
  • In this he was assisted by a lady of the court whom he had broken into in another manner, and who felt kindly towards him.
  • Most of the present walls date from the fourth, fifth and eleventh centuries and, although broken in places, it is still possible to walk their four-mile length.
  • The X-ray showed that the bone was broken in two places.
  • Also, of course, there is the reality that 20 or 30 years of habit are not broken in a fortnight.
  • More than 1,000 worth of equipment was stolen and a caravan used for less-abled members was broken into and vandalised. The Sun
  • At the end of the bed was a cedar chest which was splintered on one side and looked to have been broken into.
  • Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge. The Land of Midian
  • At the expiration of that time the pile is broken into and sorted, the imperfectly roasted ore is returned to a fresh roast-heap, and the rest trammed to the Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
  • The moment a good talker is aware of having broken into the speech of his converser, he forestalls interruption by waiting to hear what was about to be said. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
  • PHILIPPI -- The Family Dollar in Philippi was broken into over night. 12 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
  • Though my basket was broken in many places, it had saved my life by cushioning the impact as I went around boulders.
  • Youths had broken into the bar and smashed the place up.
  • Plaque-clogged arteries in the abdomen suggest a red-meat eater; black-encrusted lungs signify long-term nicotine addiction; the faint indentation in the ulna is the scarred evidence of an arm broken in childhood. Body of Knowledge
  • The case studies are in-depth descriptions of how three crackers have broken into computers.
  • The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
  • The British, having broken into the German codes, decoded the telegram.
  • And nextly, though they will give their power to the beast, and fight against the Lamb, -- consenting in this, who agree in nothing else in the world, -- yet they shall be broken in pieces; though they associate themselves, they shall be broken in pieces. The Sermons of John Owen
  • The detectives were acting on a tip-off from a thief who had broken into Mr Morrison's house only days earlier.
  • When a movie is broken into a series of vignettes as this one is, critics usually can't resist saying which vignette is the best and grousing that some vignettes are better than others.
  • It is not surprising, therefore, that world records are generally broken in the afternoon, not during the night.
  • The plaster and wallpaper were all torn and broken in more places then were normal.
  • Thinking he was referring to some other gee-gee of his, possibly one called appropriately after the Falls, and which was being broken in, The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)
  • While most thieves have simply broken into sheds or storehouses, one industrious thief actually harvested someone else's rice himself during the night, reducing a lush golden field to a small rectangular patch.
  • As far as economic espionage is concerned, no laws were broken in the acquisition of the item. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Next iPhone — and the Criminal Law Angle
  • Broken into a bowl, two eggs seasoned with salt and pepper are briefly but strenuously beaten.
  • When used in the Liturgy the hymn is often broken into smaller hymns such as: Lustra sex qui iam peregit, En acetum, fel, arundo, and Crux fidelis inter omnes. Archive 2009-04-01
  • In the south, smaller pasta such as fusilli or orecchiette are common, as is ziti (long tubular pasta, often broken into pieces for baked dishes).
  • We were broken into 7 classes, one of which was us brainy kids.
  • This just goes with the other pointless stuff, space ships without laser guns or warp drives, broken inter-galactic telescopes, and an international space station that only the privileged can visit.
  • A sidelight is shed by a broken inscription which archaeologists discovered some seventy years ago at Delphi.
  • Records were broken in 2009 when a pair of adult birds fledged three chicks from a clutch of three eggs hatched in the eyrie. Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick
  • Now that sherry is no longer shipped in cask, some Scotch whisky distillers in Scotland have their barrels ‘broken in’ in Jerez with sherry.
  • But when the warehouseman arrived at Lilly's house, instead of delivering the goods he told the astrologer that the warehouse had been broken into and the fish stolen.
  • Each division is broken into several brigades.
  • The wide man did play a part in the build-up when the deadlock was broken in the 33rd minute.
  • She is broken into four separate images, each of which shows a portion of her body - first her head reclining on upthrust arms, then her torso, thighs and feet.
  • But detectives revealed he had broken into a 78-year-old woman's home in south-east London in the early hours of last Saturday.
  • In the northeast corner of the tomb was a small votive vessel filled with ocher, next to it more ocher, a stone pestle, and three objects made from the metacarpals of animals; in the northwest corner archaeologists found a bronze knife and a long bronze awl broken in half; in the southwest corner were two vessels covered with stone lids; and in the southeast corner, archaeologists were surprised to find a censer of a type commonly found in later so-called catacomb burials that had been placed upside down. Caucasus Kurgan Cache
  • Before Denver's playoff train braked hard in New England, the team's magical 2011-2012 could be broken into two chapters: Pre-Tebow, and Tebow. It's Down to the NFL's Final Four
  • The power of corruption being broken in effectual calling, and the guilt of sin removed in justification, all that which hinders is taken out of the way, and nothing can come between that soul and glory. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Youths had broken into the bar and smashed the place up.
  • For those that we wondering how both arms were broken in Vietnam, was due to the fact he did not follow instructions on ditching a plane by crossing both arm. beachgirl McCain courts Hispanic voters
  • The main school building and a nearby pre-fab were broken into under the cover of darkness on Friday night last.
  • We then come to the mast's boom that has broken into two pieces over the ship's hull.
  • The upper right molars, upper left incisor, had been broken in a way that caused some trauma to the bone and left resulting bone lesions. TALKING GOD
  • These broken instruments of fertility were afterwards reverently wrapt up and buried in the earth or in subterranean chambers sacred to Cybele, where, like the offering of blood, they may have been deemed instrumental in recalling Attis to life and hastening the general resurrection of nature, which was then bursting into leaf and blossom in the vernal sunshine. Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
  • According to Colin Palmer-Brown of excavators Preconstruct Archaeology, all the gift offerings in the river seem to have been deliberately broken in an act of ritual destruction before being thrown into the river.
  • The film follows the lives of four central characters: two are physically crippled, two emotionally broken in exquisitely compelling ways. Boing Boing: November 17, 2002 - November 23, 2002 Archives
  • This aspect of aesthetic community is not the same as what another French philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, terms the "inoperative community," the longing for the original idea of community that was lost or broken in the transition to modernity, the dialectic of what sociologists term Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit
  • A short time ago a fine young tiger was brought alive to Captain Shaw, and he ordered a proper cage to be made, in which to send him to England, telling Babu, the "double Hadji," to put it into the "godown" in its bamboo cage; but the man put it into the kitchen, and in the morning the cage was found broken into pieces, the kitchen shutters torn down, and the tiger gone! The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
  • On this particular day bottle stores were broken into, bottle stores were looted and in a situation like that one could expect the tsotsi element to make full use of an opportunity like this and this is exactly what they did … At 3 I was still at Phefeni. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
  • But detectives revealed he had broken into a 78-year-old woman's home in south-east London in the early hours of last Saturday.
  • They tortured him until he was broken in spirit.
  • A wonder, master! here’s a costard broken in a shin. Act III. Scene I. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • I was unlucky enough to have my car broken into twice and badly damaged over the same weekend.
  • But tell me; how was there a costard broken in a shin? Love’s Labour ’s Lost
  • Sadly, Bulgarian beer hasn't yet broken into the international market in a manner befitting the quality of the suds available here, however at least it has gained some acknowledgement.
  • He got his arm broken in the scuffle
  • Wrap it up well so it doesn't get broken in the mail.
  • Something has broken in some people's central self-support mechanisms. Times, Sunday Times
  • But I would say this whole hokum about these missile agreements, these negotiations, has now broken into a total farce.
  • The stairs are broken into two sections, separated by a brief landing, and these sections are long, perhaps twenty steps each, with poor footing, the grooved metal worn to smoothness from decades of traffic.
  • Recently on Offworld, One More Go columnist Margaret Robertson claims Sega owe her £400 for all the money she's sunk in to Sega's maraca-based rhythm game Samba De Amigo over the years, only to get something always broken in return. Boing Boing
  • Structurally, therefore, these isles are a continuation of Land's End, but the granite has become less consistent and more friable; it is largely broken into felspar, quartz, and mica, with schorl, chlorite, and hornblende. The Cornwall Coast
  • A family, unused to the centre of the stage and broken in grief, draw comfort from the predictability of the rituals.
  • Bent's jaw was broken in four places, and Penney was shown the yellow card.
  • This aspect of aesthetic community is not the same as what another French philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, terms the "inoperative community," the longing for the original idea of community that was lost or broken in the transition to modernity, the dialectic of what sociologists term Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit
  • A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
  • The tress had been broken into two, the flowers had all wilted, and the grass was all brown.
  • This process can be broken into three phases: initiation, organogenesis, and histogenesis.
  • When we're not sensually crumbling a Flake, enjoying some feminine "me-time", we're heartbroken in pyjamas, spooning chocolate ice cream into our communal mouths. The truth about men, women and food
  • Civilians had broken into the building, apparently in the belief that it contained food.
  • It is broken into many easily digestible chapters with titles mimicking movies or television shows such as "Father Knows Best," "The Year of Living Dangerously (with Indonesia)" or "Citizen Lee. Nathan Gardels: Tom Plate's Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew : Some Wise Words for Dysfunctional Western Democracies
  • I interpose that in the course of the trial it emerged from the court interpreter that the Greek word used for ‘cut’ and broken in the sense of ‘parted’ or ‘severed’ is the same.
  • Add capers, chopped cornichon and torn chicken, broken into bite-size pieces. Times, Sunday Times
  • We then come to the mast's boom that has broken into two pieces over the ship's hull.
  • Marais said the man had no knowledge of selling the dagga to the men and it was later found they had broken into a second house owned by him using the bolt cutter to cut a padlock.
  • this old nag is well broken in
  • The phosphatized sediment crust was then broken into small fragments by heavy current activity and then redeposited and mixed in with adjacent lime muds.
  • Burglars had broken in while we were away.
  • He's a condensation of the many things that are broken in people - the dull, agonizing itches that persist deep within us.
  • It far from the first time crackers have broken into the web servers of software developers.
  • Police say burglars had broken in earlier that day, taking exotic animals and equipment worth £640, including two bull snakes, a pair of hypo geckos, two skinks and a corn snake.
  • French teacher, loving children, wanting in dignity, broken in English, irritable in disposition; a sensitive young stranger, fresh from home, charming in innocence, sad with thoughts of a dear mother; a poor, frightened kitten, are all objects for boys 'cruelty to gloat over. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
  • The jet had first to be broken into three sections by a team at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Somerset, then transported to Manchester on two low-loaders at night to avoid causing traffic chaos on the journey.
  • It is very important to check you are up to date with your tetanus jabs if your skin is broken in an injury or you are bitten.
  • Oh well, at least her mom didn't have to worry about cutting the pizza, it was broken in pieces already.
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to use the report to build momentum for health-care reform, reiterating the administration's contention that the best way to strengthen Medicare's finances is to, as she put it, "fix what's broken in the rest of the health-care system. Have the economy and swine flu affected you?
  • Competition is broken into paraplegic, quadriplegic, junior mixed and a Sunday road race.
  • In the last six months, his property - a business premises cum residence - has been broken into three times.
  • The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
  • That morning a story had broken in the papers that made the former Premier the journalistic prey of the day.
  • The remaining cake, still containing a varying percentage of cocoa butter, is broken into smaller pieces to be sold as cocoa cake or ground into a fine cocoa powder.
  • Two days later Miss Armistead's home was broken into and trashed.
  • The book is broken into three main sections, beginning with a brief synopsis of the state's long geologic history.
  • The win marks the first time the much-lauded goofy-footer has broken into Round 4 this season and despite nursing a knee injury, Wright will look to make an impression at Transworld Surf» | Transworld Surf
  • Complex modeling, simulation, and engineering tasks are often broken into pieces and assigned to multiple systems.
  • When suddenly I realised that my car had been broken into… outside my bloody flat!
  • Civilians had broken into the building, apparently in the belief that it contained food.
  • When bonds are broken in a chemical reaction, the reactants involved are colliding with enough kinetic energy to break the atoms apart.
  • Burglars had broken in while we were away on holiday.
  • Beneath the mixed hardwood and redwood forest canopy, the light is dim, broken in places into shafts that highlight clusters of maidenhair ferns and lush beds of redwood sorrel, a cloverlike ground cover.
  • The power of corruption being broken in effectual calling, and the guilt of sin removed in justification, all that which hinders is taken out of the way, and nothing can come between that soul and glory. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • The parts don't add up to a whole self-portrait; the female body is broken into fragments that are ornamented with fetishistic attention.
  • The ancient office of Lord Chancellor—formerly the head of the judiciary, presiding officer of the House of Lords and a cabinet minister all at once—was broken into three.
  • My jaw was broken in two places, and more than 16 pins were needed to wire my jaw in place.
  • Her bare feet skidded and slid over the dirt, sandals long since broken in the fight.
  • The relations were broken into three groups: ones that were pacifiers, ones that were markedly present but of no known effect, and ones that were annoyers.
  • This is badly broken in the charged lepton sector, so one can write explicitly what the Lagrangian is, and the neutrino Majorana matrix respects the muon-tauon interchange, whereas the charged matrix does not. A Quantum Diaries Survivor
  • My car's been broken into twice this month.
  • Though few have broken into the top echelons of power, the junior and middle management levels are full of women.
  • Beneath the muscles, and on the same side, I found an extensive comminuted fracture, the bone being broken into eight or nine different portions, and driven in upon the brain.
  • As time has become broken into variable length blocks,it has become commoditized.
  • Fanfare sounds erupt over funereal pulses broken into by choppy keyboard figures. 1982: Pintura – review
  • The X-ray showed that the bone was broken in two places.
  • A house on the Smalls Road in Warrenpoint was broken into just before 3.40 pm and rifled through.
  • Kibbled bread contains kibbled grain which is grain that has been broken into smaller pieces.
  • It features a version of the round NASA logo -- jokingly known in house as the "meatball" -- broken into pieces. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
  • After drying again, the stems were broken in a flax brake (flailing a wooden knife against a wooden block).

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