Example sentences of "would fall on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 2 | It started with the assumption that 100,000 bombs would fall on the capital within fourteen days of the declaration of war . |
| 3 | If the number of pleats across the knitting includes a half-repeat , with the pattern positioned symmetrically as above four and a half repeats would fall on the knitting as in Fig 7 . |
| 4 | Holly smiled to himself , chuckled softly , because he saw in his mind the face of the man who had brought the food to the hatch , and he thought of the retribution that would fall on the cretin 's shoulders . |
| 5 | This interface will function optically as a convex mirror , and light incident on it — which normally would not be perceived because it would fall on the blind spot , will be reflected back into the eye . |
| 6 | The circular acknowledged that the main burden of providing such care would fall on the local authorities and it aimed to ease this by extending provision for the transfer of NHS financial resources to those local authorities or voluntary bodies that offered to develop community care projects specifically for long-stay hospital patients . |
| 7 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 8 | ‘ I know suspicion would fall on the Prince , Lord Gaveston , the French , or even the King . |
| 9 | Inevitably , if there were only two people in a stage play , the full weight of one actor 's criticism would fall on the other . |
| 10 | He says ’ It could be solved … but in that case it would mean paying twice … the cost would fall on the poll tax payer . |
| 11 | The initial reaction had been an assumption that shares would fall on the back of the changes in Advanced Corporation Tax and tax credits on dividends which , to put it simplistically , will suck £1 billion out of Britain 's pension funds , the largest providers of equity for industry . |