Example sentences of "fall [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , me foot , I 've fell off the bed ! ’ |
| 2 | Mid-Wales provides one example of a region where population has fallen during every decade , from 217,277 in 1901 to only 174 , 604 in 1971 ( Dunn et al . |
| 3 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 4 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |
| 5 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 6 | In fact , Sparcbook sales were so good , Woan said , that OEM revenues have fallen as a percentage of group total to 37% in 1993 from 48% in 1992 . |
| 7 | In fact , Sparcbook sales were so good , Woan said , that OEM revenues have fallen as a percentage of group total to 37% in 1993 from 48% in 1992 . |
| 8 | Rusche and Kirchheimer themselves admit ( 1939 : 102 ) that imprisonment became the standard method of punishment at a time when the demand for prison labour had fallen as a result of technological and other developments . |
| 9 | However , public expenditure has fallen as a proportion of GDP . |
| 10 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid — which has fallen as a result of significantly reduced borrowings — net investment income in sterling terms increased from $215.1m to $238.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.1% . |
| 11 | In August 1991 the Pentagon revealed that of all US servicemen killed in Desert Storm , one quarter had fallen as a result of friendly fire . |
| 12 | over , over the century , er , although as a proportion , agricultural trade has fallen as a proportion of total trade , right , and that reflects a number of influences . |
| 13 | Over time , excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks has fallen as a share of total indirect taxes excise duties plus VAT — from 13.4% of the total in 1980/81 to only 8.6% in 1991/92 . |
| 14 | As a result of tight every-day control costs other operating charges at seventy eight point seven million have fallen as the percentage of sales by point nine per cent to twenty four point six per cent and depreciation in the period has fallen by two point three million to eight point four million . |
| 15 | The futures price has fallen between the previous close and last trade by 2.0 ( i.e.1812.5 -1810.5 ) or by 4 ticks ( i.e. 2.0/0.5 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ He apparently slipped and has fallen between the floors . ’ |
| 17 | Nigel Richardson , of merchant bank S G Warburg , said Mr Lamont had faced a fine judgment between an electoral giveaway and financial prudence , but had fallen between the two . |
| 18 | The tailwheel has fallen through the surface and the yoke was broken , so an immediate take-off was out of the question . |
| 19 | At Plowden was a road bridge built of transverse timbers with gaps in between ; it was here , on one of our journeys , that we sighted a cow with all four legs fallen through the gaps and its horns waving over the line ; Cadwallader ( the guard ) had had to pull it by the horns with main force while the station master sat on its head and Whitaker slowly drew the coaches past . |
| 20 | They have allowed their care in the community policy for ex-mental patients to amount to no more than people drifting within a community of hostels , in which one finds people who have fallen through the safety net and ended up homeless on the streets . |
| 21 | A thirteen year old boy has fallen through the window of his school bus as it went round a corner . |
| 22 | PARAMEDICS climbed through a Liverpool school sky-light to reach a teenager who had fallen through the roof . |
| 23 | We work with people who have fallen through the existing nets of provision erm generally because their problems are so multiple that no particular one agency can deal with them . |
| 24 | But it was only one of those sleeps into which he was ever more likely to fall during the day and she knew he would waken , roaring , in an hour or so . |
| 25 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |
| 26 | The reader 's sympathy towards Pip continues to fall during the second part of his expectations due to his rejection and embarrassment of his past life . |
| 27 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 28 | Contemporaneous reports claim that the vocal stylist has ‘ fallen for a gorgeous dark-haired student , young enough to be his daughter . ’ |
| 29 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 30 | She promptly spread it around London that Lipman had fallen for a wrinkled depressive called Eve . |