Example sentences of "fell [prep] disuse " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four hundred years later , after the British division of the sub-continent and the Muslim exodus to Pakistan , the mosque fell into disuse . |
| 2 | The fact that both rituals continued to be practised even after the 70 AD fall of the Temple in Jerusalem when other cult-associated rituals fell into disuse and when the overt reason , at least , for the laws of female purity no longer pertained , demonstrates their central significance to the Jewish system of gender creation and differentiation — and the real hidden agenda behind their initial promulgation in the sixth century BC . |
| 3 | They will often change from district to district , and much would be lost from our language if they fell into disuse . |
| 4 | Following this move of the ducal seat the palazzo fell into disuse and disrepair , a state from which it only recovered when the Spanish governors took it over many years later . |
| 5 | It was originally a public well , but fell into disuse in the late sixteenth-century . |
| 6 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 7 | In 1839 , Playne and Smith were still producing cloth ; then , after nearly two centuries of woollen cloth manufacture , Egypt Mill fell into disuse for a number of years . |
| 8 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
| 9 | Spinning by the village women fell into disuse by 1819 and the wheels were silent until Mr Albert Fleming and his housekeeper , Miss Twelves , came to live at Neaum Crag , Skelwith Bridge . |
| 10 | As outside broadcasts became more sophisticated , the cars fell into disuse , and 166 was presented to the National Tramway Museum for restoration as an open toastrack in 1972 . |
| 11 | Signs are that it fell into disuse during the period after the Romans had left and legendary Celtic leaders , such as Arthur , were endeavouring to maintain civilised standards against waves of barbarian invaders . |
| 12 | However , it gradually fell into disuse and was finally abandoned by its last users , the public notaries , in the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | Eventually these theories fell into disuse , largely because they were unable to explain the whole range of different types of learning . |
| 14 | For some reason , this shortened form fell into disuse after the Second World War and the more affectionate ‘ moggie ! ’ returned as the popular term for the ordinary , common-or-garden cat . |
| 15 | This and all the other alternative orifices fell into disuse . |
| 16 | Certainly , the mark points survived while the old straight tracks fell into disuse and neglect . |
| 17 | In the East the ransom view also fell into disuse , but the Devil remained as a major opponent to be defeated by Christ on the cross . |
| 18 | Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case . |
| 19 | The feudal levy now fell into disuse : it was summoned in 1327 , and then for the last time , and probably for financial reasons , in 1385 . |
| 20 | The power of United States federal courts to take evidence in aid of foreign proceedings was first introduced in 1855 but as a result of a series of what are now seen as misunderstandings fell into disuse . |
| 21 | Progress was rapid — but let us prefer to call it evolution , for Daguerreotypes achieved perfection of a kind ( even though the process fell into disuse after less than 20 years ) . |
| 22 | The use of a whole leaf , flower or the entire plant itself , fell into disuse , and with this a whole galaxy of other chemicals which , it has now been found , were equally necessary to a cure . |
| 23 | The cheapness of the method , combined with the ease in ensuring that a particular colour would be identical in shade to the one used earlier , meant that plant dyes soon fell into disuse except in remote country areas . |
| 24 | The Rookwood branch fell into disuse in 1939 with the advent of the motor car . |
| 25 | The railway tracks were lifted in the 1960s , and the bridge fell into disuse . |
| 26 | Early in 1922 the tramway fell into disuse for the second and final time . |
| 27 | A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established . |
| 28 | In fact there were complaints from upper crust visitors about the din , so the cells fell into disuse . |