Example sentences of "fall back on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And their continued existence , damn them , means this writer can no longer fall back on one of his favourite lines . |
| 2 | You can always fall back on good old rice and tea if the aesthetic qualities of the food are not enough to overcome your apprehension . |
| 3 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 4 | Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second . |
| 5 | The readiest means of making money was to fall back on private tutoring . |
| 6 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 7 | This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism . |
| 8 | The problems are not all one-sided , however , as it may be that a supplier of equipment or software has to fall back on contractual remedies . |
| 9 | Certainly they should not be allowed to fall back on supplementary schools as an alternative to mainstream provision . |
| 10 | They seldom could avoid looking over their shoulders at her and when forced to explain this , they normally fell back on one of three arguments . |
| 11 | Mr Jenks marched along the corridor , glaring wrathfully about him , and the children fell back on both sides without a murmur . |
| 12 | As usual , he fell back on plain honesty . |
| 13 | While the preparatory drafts , drawn up in Rome before the Council opened and very largely rejected by the fathers , had made heavy use of scholastic terminology and not much of Scripture — as was generally characteristic of pre-conciliar theology — the Council almost systematically reversed this , eliminating scholastic terms again and again and falling back on biblical ones . |
| 14 | Vaguely Meredith was aware that the protesters and the other surrounding crowd members had parted like the waves of the Red Sea , falling back on either side leaving Harriet , Blazer and the protester isolated . |
| 15 | His father was ageing , unsure , falling back on old prejudices to defend his position . |
| 16 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 17 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 18 | They often go into the attack basing their arguments on , say , sales data , and if that fails , they fall back on another tack , perhaps new product development . |