Example sentences of "[noun sg] fall on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 2 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 3 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 4 | The footstraps being too tight , causing all the weight to fall on the windward side . |
| 5 | Out of curiosity , she let the light fall on the book doubled up under his elbow . |
| 6 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 7 | Grobbelaar deal falls on the rocks |
| 8 | Particular opprobrium fell on the new Beer Shops ( inaugurated in 1830 ) which were : |
| 9 | Therefore , since property had not passed , the loss fell on the seller . |
| 10 | The duty to notify an acquisition or takeover bid falls on the acquiring company or companies and , in the case of mergers in the strict sense , on the parties jointly . |
| 11 | Thus if the goods are damaged or stolen this loss falls on the seller if it occurs before property has passed ; otherwise it falls on the buyer . |
| 12 | Jack 's glance fell on the tiny computer screen , which seemed to be going crazy — flashing up numbers , graphics and a kind of blue fuzz , each image speeding into the next . |
| 13 | Looking around , his glance fell on the twigs scattered on the ground where Cassowary had thrown them . |
| 14 | The 15-month-old coalition fell on the issue of peace with the Palestinians . |
| 15 | She 's since sung Pamina , Zerlina and Despina under Barenboim in Paris and , before the axe fell on the conductor 's brief reign at the Bastille , was to have done the three Da Ponte pieces with him and Patrice Chereau . |
| 16 | The light fell on the woman 's breast , neck , chin , and the tip of her nose , creating that gravity unique to him , which Vincent adored . |
| 17 | A glance at the corner where the copper stood , then at the doorway behind me , where the light fell on the gleaming worktops and new cupboards . |
| 18 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 19 | But she could n't ask , and she looked away from him , her glance falling on the flowers on the poet Mácha 's statue . |
| 20 | Certain colour vocabularies are more likely to be adopted than others because of another rule : the retinal colour cones and certain interneurons within the brain encode light into four basic colours , even when the wavelength of light falling on the eye varies in a continuous manner . |
| 21 | These carry information concerning the light falling on the various regions of the retina . |
| 22 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 23 | Does the gaze fall on the impaired body or on social barriers ? |
| 24 | The late afternoon sun fell on the table as we ate our individual quiches and dandelion salad . |
| 25 | An EC declaration on Bosnia-Hercegovina of May 11 , following a Foreign Ministers ' meeting , said that although all parties in the conflict bore responsibility , " by far the greatest share of the blame falls on the JNA and the authorities in Belgrade which are in control of the army , both directly and indirectly by supporting Serbian irregulars " . |
| 26 | Her gaze fell on the mud-stained coverlet . |
| 27 | He stopped in his perambulation and his gaze fell on the table by the window ( set too high for children to see out of ) , on which was laid out a display of local history material . |
| 28 | Her gaze fell on the Baccarat crystal pyramid on the glass-topped side table at her elbow . |
| 29 | Er I think my other question falls on the . |
| 30 | My ash falls on the floor . |