Example sentences of "fall [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the rocket was projected up to a considerable height and directed to fall somewhere in the London area . |
| 2 | The costs of such systems are extremely variable , but are likely to fall somewhere in the regions of : |
| 3 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 4 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 5 | In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years ! |
| 6 | ( This , again , will have fallen somewhat in the following two years . ) |
| 7 | Though the number of Russian diplomatic missions abroad tended to fall somewhat in the decades which followed his death — there were nineteen in 1779 and ( largely for reasons of economy ) only fourteen in 1800 — the country did not relapse into the isolation of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | As Basil Yeaxley put it back in 1925 : " the spiritual has a wider character than the religious , just as the religious does not fall wholly within the spiritual " ( Yeaxley 1925 : 46 ) . |
| 9 | The hardship of saving water will fall most on the poorest people . |
| 10 | Until now he had never believed it to be true , that something as heavy as gold could fall naturally from the sky . |
| 11 | The teacher needs to be open to , and supportive of , the student who has an alternative view to present , even if it does not fall squarely within the teacher 's own disciplinary expertise . |
| 12 | If the ray focus does not fall exactly on the film , the image will be blurred . |
| 13 | She closed her eyes , tried to clear her mind , tried to let the world fall away with the rhythms of the journey . |
| 14 | Drains should ideally be laid in straight lines between inspection chambers and should always fall away from the house with the correct gradient to ensure that the flow through the pipe is fast enough to ensure solid matter is carried along . |
| 15 | Léonie insisted , watching the blade fall quickly through the bread , that she did not know the person 's name . |
| 16 | This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people . |
| 17 | But inflation should fall further over the medium-term . |
| 18 | Whatever the impact of the Gulf , America 's deteriorating economy suggests that the dollar could fall further in the short run . |
| 19 | But then it was that thoughts began to penetrate her desire-clouded mind — the realisation that , should these ribbon ties become undone , then her nightdress would fall straight to the floor — and she would be left — stark naked . |
| 20 | The work of French women theorists is also beginning to be translated and discussed in this country , although for French theorists , the boundaries between philosophy , literary theory and psychoanalytic theory are often fluid , so that their work does not always fall clearly into the familiar categories of philosophy . |
| 21 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
| 22 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 23 | So some academics fear they might fall behind in the promotion race if they get involved with TCS . ’ |
| 24 | So some academics fear they might fall behind in the promotion race if they get involved with TCS . ’ |
| 25 | Show that the incidence of a tax will now fall mainly on the purchaser . |
| 26 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 27 | Land prices and farm incomes would fall substantially in the wake of agricultural reforms from the GATT talks , says Cambridge economist Michael Murphy . |
| 28 | As the technology of computer hardware becomes more established the emphasis will fall increasingly on the power and potential of software to create new techniques and opportunities . |
| 29 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 30 | All this will fall hard on the private sector . |