Example sentences of "fell [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 32 | Rainbow , whose Wyakin served him only after sunrise , fell in the first attack when his rifle jammed . |
| 33 | It has been shown , for example , that levels of violence during industrial disputes fell in the first three-quarters of this century , but that this trend has been reversed more recently ( Geary , 1985 ) . |
| 34 | Net profits at Philips Electronics fell in the first quarter by 36% to 103m guilders ( $16m ) from 162m guilders in the same period of 1992 . |
| 35 | Lizzie jelfs and Caroline Billingham all qualified but fell in the first round … |
| 36 | The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility . |
| 37 | Some of the water in these aquifers comes from recharge in wetter areas nearby , but much of it is ‘ fossil water ’ , rain that fell in the last Ice Age . |
| 38 | For the first time in nearly four years , gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 39 | But while the services sector is strengthening , factory output fell in the last three months . |
| 40 | Craig , who 's 16 , fell in the next race , again with leg injuries . |
| 41 | The levels and movements of urban rent are hard to document , but where substantial series of records survive , it is clear that in some towns at any rate , rents fell in the fifteenth century . |
| 42 | However , repossessions fell in the fourth quarter to 18,000 from 20,000 in the third quarter . |
| 43 | Most values ( 61/67 men ( 91% ) and 44/47 women ( 93.6% ) ) fell within the 5th and 95th centile of the reference population . |
| 44 | The blow fell on the 7th Division and on Allenby 's cavalry , which connected Haig 's Corps with the 3rd Corps to its south . |
| 45 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 46 | So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry . |
| 47 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 48 | S.J. Snooke of South Africa , who led his side to defeat against England over his 29th birthday , Feb. 1 , 1910 , was the first overseas player to be able to offer birthday cake at the tea interval , but the first captain to five himself a victory as a birthday present was the Australian H.L. Collins , whose 36th birthday fell on the fifth day of the seven-day third Test against England in January 1925 , which Australia eventually won by 11 runs . |
| 49 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 50 | With twelve and a half hours left , England were clearly up against it , so when the rain fell on the fourth day they were not too upset . |
| 51 | Two wickets fell on the fourth evening , but Ellison stayed with Gooch for some time next morning , as did Gower . |
| 52 | Haynes fell to the first ball of West Indies ' reply , but the local pair of Lara and Simmons added 78 before the former fell to Kuiper . |
| 53 | The task fell to the 11th Bavarian Division , a unit that had recently distinguished itself under von Mackensen in the Serbian and Galician campaigns . |
| 54 | He unseated his rider once and fell at the 7th in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 55 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 56 | Honeybeer Mead fell at the seventh , where Omerta was pulled up because jockey Lorcan Wyer feared he had broken down . |
| 57 | ‘ YOUR HORSE FELL AT THE FIFTH . |
| 58 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |
| 59 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 60 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |