Example sentences of "had fallen [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a huge blow to their pride to discover how far behind they had fallen during isolation — yet coach John Williams has now gone too far the other way . |
| 2 | A report on Sept. 20 announced the formation of a right-wing Coalition for the Republic ( KdR ) led by former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski , former Defence Ministers Jan Parys and Romuald Szeremietiew , and former Interior Minister Antoni Macierewicz , members of the previous government which had fallen amid scandal over the exposure of alleged communist collaborators [ see p. 38972 ] . |
| 3 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 4 | Fowler , who had fallen into bed at four in the morning , agreed ; if this morning 's papers were any guide , the Party conference had given the appearance of a nightclub crossed with a football riot . |
| 5 | In the grounds of the Elgin Cathedral , I mentioned to a passing man , a local , with whom I had fallen into conversation , ‘ Dr Johnson had a meal here , that was so bad he could n't eat it . ’ |
| 6 | And by the end of the war , the issue had fallen into oblivion . |
| 7 | Having reached the conclusion that it was not clear whether the committee had fallen into error , they admitted the affidavit evidence which showed that the appeal committee had approached the matter correctly . |
| 8 | The Guérignys ’ smallholding on the edge of the village of Préfleur had fallen into dilapidation ; the roof of the red , herring-bone-brick house and stabling had caved in , leaving the ribs exposed and the heart shattered . |
| 9 | Land stewards had become autonomous , farm buildings had fallen into disuse , land had been poorly managed , properties had been allowed to run down and rents had gone unreviewed . |
| 10 | The channel was now only ten , perhaps twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide : since it had fallen into disuse as a waterway it had , over the years , become silted up with layer upon layer of sludge . |
| 11 | The local Forest courts had fallen into disuse ; in 1601 the regarders of Chippenham Forest had complained that there was great disorder ‘ for want of a swanmote court ’ . |
| 12 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
| 13 | Most commentators considered that the effect of the decisions would be to encourage other states to reinstate existing laws on parental notification and consent which had fallen into disuse because of previous court rulings . |
| 14 | For some time a rumour had persisted that Horemheb , in his moves to clear up the corruption which had flourished like rampant weed during the years in which the city had fallen into neglect , had more than once attempted to close it ; but that the interests which protected it were still too powerful for him to dispense with . |
| 15 | Correct grammar was seen by him as part of the structures of authority ( such as respect for elders , for standards of cleanliness , for discipline in schools ) which in recent decades had fallen into decline . |
| 16 | At the very least it was more selective than various predecessors which by that time had fallen into disrepute . |
| 17 | The old system had fallen into disrepute because of its widespread use as a tax dodge , and because it encouraged conifer planting , but it is recognised that grants are not as effective . |
| 18 | Many things had fallen into place as a result of his father 's explanation : drawings on lavatory walls , the shape of girl babies , the strange scufflings in Jimmy Thompson 's rabbit hutch when they put the black buck Jumbo in with Snow White … |
| 19 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 20 | By the end of November the Resistance had been domesticated , the leadership of the Communist Party ( PCF ) had fallen into line behind the government , and de Gaulle was in uncontested control of liberated territory . |
| 21 | In some forests the local Forest courts also had fallen into abeyance . |
| 22 | The umbrella group we 'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance , but the name still meant something . |
| 23 | But he could tell Dinah nothing meantime ; when he reached home , she had fallen into labour . |
| 24 | Wingti announced on Oct. 29 that Arawa had fallen to government troops and that " government authority is now established in central Bougainville " . |
| 25 | Away over towards the canal beyond the golf course , a bridge of coloured light arced to the silent earth just about where her husband would be just now , crouched in his little watchman 's hut , at the foot of the night rainbow , where a piece of heaven had fallen to earth in Ruchill . |
| 26 | The Afghan government in early April acknowledged that its garrison at Khost had fallen to mujaheddin guerrillas on March 31 . |
| 27 | He said that the rain we 'd been having here had fallen as snow on the top of the pass . |
| 28 | They became the guardians of the land , the scourge of any who tried to harm it , and every new generation issued out of Merkadale to take the place of those who had fallen for Minginish . |
| 29 | She said that the baby had suffered a fit , and she had fallen on top of him . |
| 30 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |