Example sentences of "fall on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is done here , partly directly , as in the injunction to be like the serpent , and partly indirectly , in her perversion of such words as ‘ milk ’ or ‘ nature ’ , Her parting injunction to him is to ‘ look up clear ’ ( 71 ) , ‘ clear ’ meaning ‘ innocent , spotless ’ : the stress must fall on the verb , ‘ look ’ or ‘ seem , . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the greater forces would be assembled in the forest : the fire in the sloop should act as a decoy , so that the army of over five hundred warriors could fall on the settlement while its defenders were distracted , sweeping down on them , while they flapped around the burning ship , from the rainforest where they would be concealed till then . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As everyone is close to the ground anyway they will not hurt themselves , except possibly the last one who could fall on the floor . |
| 5 | see that 's gon na , see what I mean , as we go along that 'll fall on the floor that , you 'll have it all over the place , put it away okay , get some petrol now on the way |
| 6 | Inevitably , if there were only two people in a stage play , the full weight of one actor 's criticism would fall on the other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus , as the BMA ( 1989 ) points out , ‘ these costs would be beyond the control of the general practitioners but could fall on the budget ’ . |
| 9 | That Flaubert , still damp from skewering boys in Cairo bath-houses , should fall on the name of Nabokov 's seducer of underage American girlhood ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The CEGB 's case is likely to stand or fall on the economics of the project . |
| 13 | Others , such as the need to treat old military sites owned by the departments of energy and defence , will fall on the taxpayer . |
| 14 | It started with the assumption that 100,000 bombs would fall on the capital within fourteen days of the declaration of war . |
| 15 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I know suspicion would fall on the Prince , Lord Gaveston , the French , or even the King . |
| 18 | If one side of the package is replaced by a glass window , so that light can fall on the memory cells , then it is found that the incident light accelerates the decay process in manner proportional both to the intensity and to the duration of the exposure . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A party 's obligations may also be defined by a term providing that obligations which would otherwise fall on the contractor shall be borne by the other party to the contract . |
| 21 | ‘ I am sure , ’ Queen Margaret intervened smoothly , ‘ no suspicion of foul play can fall on the Cardinal 's nephew . ’ |
| 22 | I then had the problem of having to stand , holding the gate up so that it would n't fall on the dog and by now there were three tractors and four cars blocking the road . |
| 23 | In the winter , snow or , more usually , hail can fall on the tops of the highest mountains and yet one hour 's drive down in Funchal people are swimming and sunbathing . |
| 24 | The black man let his hand fall on the bolt of cotton . |
| 25 | It seems that the case for elaboration , and thus for the Withington-Barton Farm-Woodchester order of development , must stand or fall on the implications of the stylistic inter-relationships of the pavements themselves . |
| 26 | The more inelastic the supply curve and the more elastic the demand curve , the more the final incidence will fall on the seller rather than the purchaser . |
| 27 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 28 | This may well be resisted by the landlord on the basis that the risk of unlet property should fall on the tenant . |
| 29 | Out of curiosity , she let the light fall on the book doubled up under his elbow . |
| 30 | The spotlight may also fall on the managements of quoted agencies . |