Example sentences of "[noun sg] to fall on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 2 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 3 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 4 | The footstraps being too tight , causing all the weight to fall on the windward side . |
| 5 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 6 | But organisers defiantly refused to allow the curtain to fall on the high life of the amateur drama year . |
| 7 | A 15 minute shower provided the only rain to fall on the course yesterday and Liverpool was bathed in unexpected sunshine . |
| 8 | From what has been said , we would expect the heaviest proportionate effects of the government 's many methods of reducing employment to fall on the North . |
| 9 | There would be a massive evasion , leaving the bulk of a dog registration scheme to fall on the tax-payer . ’ |
| 10 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |