Example sentences of "[vb pp] to fall into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The facts of Calvin itself were said to fall into category three .
2 By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 .
3 Dozens of early Georgian houses built in the 1720s in Queen Anne style ( surprisingly rare in central London ) had been allowed to fall into decay — to be turned into sweatshops for the clothing industry , to be converted into offices for the fruit-market or simply to become slums .
4 Parts are still at this time being occupied but it is almost certain before long that the whole of the building will be condemned and we hope that this old building will be preserved and not allowed to fall into decay .
5 From the time of Laurence little work was carried out on the Palace and it was again allowed to fall into decay .
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