Example sentences of "which fell [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such legislation would outlaw any models which fell below a certain standard . |
| 2 | Their main grievances against the education system , which fell under the dual control of the church and state , were that it victimised teachers who showed dissent by questioning the working conditions or salary scale . |
| 3 | He was invited to become chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board , which fell into the grey area between the public and private sector for which Sir John has always found special fascination . |
| 4 | In 1991 the problems were at National Environmental Testing , the United States pollution testing arm , which fell into the red in the second half and broke even over the year as a whole . |
| 5 | It was evident that the ever-present shadow which fell across the lives of Mme Guérigny and her son had never been darker . |
| 6 | Any crumbs which fell off the table were pounced on by big bronze lizards — skinks . |
| 7 | The saturation resulted in rain , which fell for a very long time . |
| 8 | The downturn in the tyre industry hit rubber prices , which fell to a four-year low in Asia , despite purchases for the buffer stock and by the American government for its defence stockpile . |
| 9 | The undertaking of the welfare of illegitimate children of soldiers who had been killed , the organization of accommodation and support for those evacuated from the western borders of the Reich already in autumn 1939 , or the administration of packages to be sent to relatives at the Front , were all tasks which fell to the Nazi welfare organization , the NSV . |
| 10 | Ruth took off her dress , hastily moving a stem of grass which fell to the floor , poured water from the ewer into the basin , and set about washing herself . |
| 11 | Phil , vaguely , shrugged off the jacket which fell to the floor with a metallic clatter . |
| 12 | Constance sat threading beads , old beads of Venetian glass , which fell with a faint , decisive click , each upon the other , glittering in the light from her Anglepoise lamp . |
| 13 | Ecgfrith , his successor , is given a reign of fifteen years in the Northumbrian regnal list , but Bede says that he was killed on 20 May 685 in his fifteenth year ( HE IV , 24 ) , and that Ecgfrith was indeed in his fifteenth year in 685 is confirmed by the inscription at Jarrow which records the dedication of the church on 23 April ( which fell on a Sunday in 685 ) , a month before his death , in his fifteenth year . |
| 14 | The most notable capture was that of Caen which fell at the end of July , and which , according to the chronicler Froissart , was the source of much material gain which was taken down the river Orne to the coast for shipment back to England . |
| 15 | The decline was mainly due to lower non-oil imports , which fell at an annual rate of 14% between the fourth quarter of 1990 and the first quarter of this year . |
| 16 | which fell through the fields , our mother singing |
| 17 | The provisions relating to Economic and Monetary Union take the form of amendments to the EEC Treaty and therefore form an integral part of Community law ( even if one might have doubts as to the likelihood of the factual events which would trigger the final stage ) ; on the other hand , in the context of the provisions relating to political Union , a distinction was made between those matters which constituted amendments to the existing Community treaties , and those which fell outside the scope of the Communities , notably the provisions on a Common foreign and Security policy and those on co-operation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs . |
| 18 | He struck back with a knife which fell in the struggle from his chest of drawers . |
| 19 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 20 | These defences seldom attempted to enclose the total area of occupation , partly because of its pre-existing shape and extent , and partly because the defences were designed to perform a variety of different functions , many of which fell in the official sphere . |
| 21 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 22 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |
| 23 | This was confirmed by their 20 minute C urea breath test values ( percentage of administered C urea excreted as C-CO 2 per mmol expired CO 2 ×kg body weight×100 ) which fell from a range of 60- 550 before treatment to 2–8 afterwards . |
| 24 | Robinson , working on a lower one , was trapped by a 1½ cwt. lump of shale which fell from the belly of the earth face . |
| 25 | All the food available to animals and man was thought to be due to the rain which fell from the heavens , the arrival of which was dependent on the will of the god Ba'al . |
| 26 | It will do no harm to recall that is what democracy originally meant and was : state and society at one , the citizen body governing itself directly , through active participation in politics , a duty which fell upon every citizen at one time or another . |
| 27 | To be taxed in four successive years was without precedent , yet this was not the only burden which fell upon the king 's lay subjects . |
| 28 | Although the presence of the proctors was probably in order to assent to the lay taxes which fell upon the clergy 's temporalities , from 1341 at least they were no longer required to attend ; they were still summoned , but their absence from parliament was not deemed prejudicial to the king , no doubt because it could no longer delay or frustrate clerical taxation which was now in the hands of another body . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was only because of the narrow range of human activities which fell within the orbit of the ECSC that the member states had been willing to cede potentially substantial powers to the body which was the fundamental supranational element of the new organisation . |
| 30 | The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause . |