Example sentences of "fallen [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 2 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 3 | In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years ! |
| 4 | ( This , again , will have fallen somewhat in the following two years . ) |
| 5 | It had fallen backwards into the narrow eight-feet-deep pipe while grazing at night . |
| 6 | The only minor consolation was that prices had fallen just after the war , though that situation was not to last long . |
| 7 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 8 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
| 9 | Maybe you have fallen away from the regular practice of your faith ; perhaps , you have a feeling of hurt or of being let down or ignored — well , it 's easy to come back again . |
| 10 | Prices have fallen steeply in the last year , and while this year 's drop will not be so dramatic , prices will continue to fall . |
| 11 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 12 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 13 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 14 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 15 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 16 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 17 | Right Chairman , yes , the report 's for information , there are a few things to update , occupancy remains healthy , erm , the working total has fallen slightly over the Christmas recess , but erm , really by ten there . |
| 18 | With the country more and more forced into self-sufficiency , land was exhaustively cultivated , and by the closing stages of the war , when supplies from abroad had completely dried up , domestic production had fallen far below the 1941 level . |
| 19 | According to Miles Barber of Barbers Estate Agents ( 071–381 0112 ) , the level of enquiries about French property remains relatively high , although the number of transactions has fallen sharply since the peak of 1989 . |
| 20 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 21 | On the following day the share price index , which had fallen sharply during the previous year ( largely because funds had been siphoned from the stock exchange into real estate speculation ) , rose by almost 30 points , one of its biggest one-day gains . |
| 22 | That is why the Turkish Federation are putting up such huge cash incentives for the team to beat England who , claims Piontek , have fallen behind in the world league . |
| 23 | And if some savage peoples had so clearly fallen behind in the race , others , as some authorities maintained , might well represent not simply retarded , or imperfectly evolved , but actually degenerate forms of earlier civilization . |
| 24 | A long list of criteria was trundled out to justify the eminent reasonableness of their wage claims : their members had fallen behind in the league table of wage differentials ; the cost of living had increased ; productivity had risen ; firms ' profits were high and their members were entitled to their ‘ fair ’ share . |
| 25 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 26 | I am also pleased to inform my hon. Friend that ophthalmology waiting lists have fallen substantially during the past year . |
| 27 | Similarly , GDFCF has fallen substantially in the recession years of the late 198()s and early 1990s . |
| 28 | For instance , interest rates are beginning to fall in Germany , they have already fallen substantially in the UK and are very low in the US . |
| 29 | Remarriage rates ( the number of marriages per thousand divorced persons ) have fallen continuously since the 1970s , largely due to the growing popularity of cohabitation between marriages . |
| 30 | He probably inspected the area when the water had fallen well below the starlings . |