Example sentences of "had fallen [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Production had fallen during 1992 in almost all sectors , privatization had been slow and the performance of the new companies showed little improvement . |
| 2 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 3 | He thought that England , in forgetting her early literature , had fallen into liberal self-delusions . |
| 4 | Lanfranc 's silence about existing practices has sometimes been interpreted as a sign that the old order had fallen into complete neglect by the time he arrived at Canterbury . |
| 5 | In the mountain-top refuge of Karfi , a few straggling survivors tried to keep the Minoan way of life going , but it had fallen into lifeless stereotypes . |
| 6 | At Forest , in the nightmare season 81–82 , he had fallen into all the usual high earning traps , plus the unusual one of becoming one of the city 's leading gay scene makers . |
| 7 | They were all watching in fascination , hardly noticing , hardly understanding , that the abrupt wind from the south door had fallen into total stillness , and still , leaf by leaf now and slowly and deliberately , the leaves kept turning . |
| 8 | Her dress lay on the floor , the linoleum nursery floor — weighted by its beads , it had fallen into serpentine coils . |
| 9 | Behind the high iron railings and the gardens of palm trees , the villas had fallen into quiet decay . |
| 10 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 11 | Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . |
| 12 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 13 | He had fallen between two sharp jagged-edge boulders and the angry tide had battered his body between them . |
| 14 | The Bugis had fallen between two sciences , forgetting the old before they had mastered the new . |
| 15 | And there was a picture who had fallen off one of the lorries in Bosnia erm one of the refugee lorries and was running along trying to catch up with her parents . |
| 16 | The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn , but the sun was still lighting up the far corner where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse . |
| 17 | The Maronites complained that areas of the country had fallen under Palestinian control , especially the Arkoub , which was now known as Fatahland . |
| 18 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 19 | Responsibility for disposing of this fleet , which Boeing employees had nicknamed ‘ The Aluminium Cloud ’ , had fallen to one of the company 's most experienced salesmen , R.Q Wilson — a tall , cadaverous man whose Brooks Brothers suits , and the ostentatious flashes of gold at his wrist , cuff and spectacle-rims actually belied a distinctly English politesse and gentility . |
| 20 | Inflation for the system as a whole , which had fallen to 4 per cent a year in the first half of 1972 , rose to an annual rate of 7 per cent in the first half of 1973 . |
| 21 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |
| 22 | Provisional figures show that by December 1991 the number had fallen to 108,982 , a reduction of 41 per cent . |
| 23 | But by 1980 , ‘ non-manual births ’ remained almost the same — 226,000 ; ‘ manual ’ births had fallen to 333,000 — a ratio of 1 : 1.5 . |
| 24 | By January this year the ratio had fallen to 17.2 pupils per teacher . |
| 25 | In 1973 , net remittances from Yugoslav workers abroad covered about one-quarter of total payments for imports and net interest , but by 1985 this proportion had fallen to 7.2 per cent . |
| 26 | In 1974 there were 8061 employees on the town 's industrial estates ; by 1981 this had fallen to 5337 . |
| 27 | In 1957 the ratio was 10.79 to 1 , but by 1977 it had fallen to 4.97 to 1 . |
| 28 | In England in 1970 , there were 232 hospitals with 59,000 beds , an average of 250 beds per hospital ; in 1976 , the number of hospitals had risen to 275 but the numbers of beds had fallen to 53,000 , an average of under 200 beds per hospital . |
| 29 | One month later , when the subjects were asymptomatic , their reaction time had fallen to 385 ( SD 75 ) ms . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware that there were more than 17,000 people employed in the Scottish coal industry in 1984 , but by 1989 that figure had fallen to 3,480 and it will be even smaller now ? |