Example sentences of "[adv] drop " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee . |
| 2 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 3 | The charges were eventually dropped after an investigation , but had he stayed with the Scots Guards his career would inevitably have been wrecked . |
| 4 | Although the charges against Gay 's The Word were eventually dropped , Customs ' raids and seizures continue in smaller ways ; Gay 's The Word was able to win through because of its prestige as a well respected and established bookshop . |
| 5 | However , the Catholic Church at Carcassonne had its own ideas about Sauniere 's riches and accused him of simony — the selling of pardons — a charge which was eventually dropped . |
| 6 | In March 1704 , when the Whig House of Lords proposed a Naturalisation Bill for subjects of the principality of Orange , it was strongly opposed by the Tory-dominated House of Commons , and eventually dropped . |
| 7 | Although the Consultation Draft issued before the COB Rules were introduced suggested that a third party client of an SRO member should not be treated as identified even if the firm knew his name and address ( if that was all ) , this suggested exclusion was eventually dropped ; accordingly , such knowledge is fatal . |
| 8 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton seven hours after her ordeal began … |
| 9 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton . |
| 10 | David Pyper was also among those battling in front in the early stages but eventually dropped back and settled for fourth . |
| 11 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 12 | The custom of wearing jet jewellery as a symbol of mourning was quietly but effectively dropped . |
| 13 | At that time about 90 per cent of households lived in privately-rented accommodation ; the figure has since dropped to 8 per cent . |
| 14 | But that was three years ago and the judge is still pondering it ( Pacific Telesis has since dropped the idea ) . |
| 15 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 16 | He deftly drops a charge next to it and returns the vehicle . |
| 17 | As he listened , Dorcas 's mouth slowly dropped open . |
| 18 | The baton of innovation , in this view , may not have been altogether dropped , but sometimes has to be carried by another team before the British outfit can continue its own rather erratic course down the tracks of literary history . |
| 19 | The subject of Ryan was mercifully dropped , and for once Jake appeared to be as anxious as Shiona was to avoid any further confrontation . |
| 20 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 21 | There was a sense of urgency about proceedings now ( the fifteen minute assembly time was more than half over already ) so everyone duly dropped bags , coats and shoes where they were , filed into the sports hall and sat on the floor for the assembly . |
| 22 | There are only the smallest of delicately dropped clues as to how and why they ended up with the social skills of a herd of rhinos . |
| 23 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 24 | ‘ When they realise there 's work and money involved — when you refuse to take their problem — the penny suddenly drops and they might just consider spaying . |
| 25 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |
| 26 | The penny suddenly drops , and he is revealed as the one who makes sense of life . |
| 27 | He then suddenly drops to the ground on the left knee , placing the left hand on the floor in front of him . |
| 28 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 29 | His voice suddenly dropped to a more intimate key . |
| 30 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |