Example sentences of "had fallen into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that England , in forgetting her early literature , had fallen into liberal self-delusions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her dress lay on the floor , the linoleum nursery floor — weighted by its beads , it had fallen into serpentine coils . |
| 7 | Behind the high iron railings and the gardens of palm trees , the villas had fallen into quiet decay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . |
| 10 | 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 . |