How to apply paragraph segmentation?

Hi community,

I read a couple of discussions on this topic, but still I have not been able to solve the following problem:

I have an XML file that often contains several sentences in one element, e.g.:

<element>This is a sentence. This is another sentence. Look at this: another sentence.</element>

When creating the Studio project from this file, I get 4 individual segments (separated after each full stop or colon). However, I can see that in the TM there are many segments that already contain all sentences of an element, which results in a high number of fuzzy matches where there could be 100% Matches. I assumed that changing the segmentation rules from sentence-based to paragraph-based would give me segments that contain all sentences in an element, but apparantly it's not working. What can I do to save me from either having to merge hundreds of segments or having to copy and paste hundreds of concordance matches?

Thanks for any hints!