Example sentences of "fall from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries . |
| 2 | If Labour were the biggest party he feared the FTSE100 Index could fall from its current 2,382.7 to 2,200 . |
| 3 | The government predicted that the deficit would shrink from 17,000 million pesos in 1990 to 1,400 million in 1991 , and that inflation would fall from its current rate of 12.2 per cent to 9.5 per cent by the end of the year . |
| 4 | She looked up at him , that same cold distance in her eyes , then let the card fall from her fingers into the silt below the water . |
| 5 | Saw how she approached the sacks and lifted one of the labels , then let it fall from her hand with a slight shudder . |
| 6 | He still wanted her body , there was no way he could disguise that , and she , well , she would have to learn to be content with whatever crumbs he was prepared to let fall from his table . |
| 7 | Immortality and a Godly status are two things that Tamburlaine wants to achieve and he believes this will happen due to his ‘ protection by the Gods ’ , especially Jove : ‘ And shall the sun fall from his sphere than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome ’ . |
| 8 | Better-than-expected trade figures and increasing optimism that UK interest rates may start to fall from their current 15 per cent level , perhaps as early as next spring , helped fuel a 23.9 point rise in the index to 2,422.7 — within four points of the year 's high of 2,426 established just before the mini-crash in October and within hailing distance of the all-time high of 2,443.4 , established on July 16 , 1987 . |
| 9 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1978 the annualised rate of increase of the Retail Prices Index was only 6.8 per cent and real incomes were rising again following the sharp falls of 1976 and 77 ; unemployment , while still very high by post-war standards , was beginning to fall from its peak in 1977 and job vacancies were on the increase ; the balance of payments current account showed a substantial surplus . |
| 10 | She looked up at them and allowed her glasses to fall from her nose . |
| 11 | This caused Uncle Mick to lean heavily on the passenger on his left causing the pipe to fall from his mouth . |
| 12 | As he did so , a fine trickle of sawdust appeared to fall from his ear to the floor . |
| 13 | Geoffrey was slumped in an armchair , head on chest , a book about to fall from his hands . |
| 14 | Despite intensive drilling , production has steadily fallen from its 1973 level of 9.2m barrels a day ; the government 's energy forecasters think it could be less than 6m b/d by 2000 . |
| 15 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |
| 16 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 17 | Ajax was not dragging Cassandra from sanctuary but standing trial before his peers for that impious act ; yet she was still seated on the ground clasping the image fallen from its pedestal . |
| 18 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
| 19 | By 1973 the profit rate in business and manufacturing had fallen from its previous peak in each major bloc by about one-third . |
| 20 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 21 | A rugby-mad milkman made his best ever tackle — he caught a 14-month-old baby who had fallen from her bedroom window . |
| 22 | Mrs Naulls said lucidly , as if veils had suddenly , when it was too late , fallen from her mind and her speech , " It was good of you to come , dear . |
| 23 | Her cheeks were pink , and a couple of coils of copper hair had fallen from her hairdo , one on each side of her head . |
| 24 | But now , fallen from her cabin , she was cut off from all understanding , and had no strength to kick against the darkness that had come down around her . |
| 25 | The scales had fallen from her eyes and she saw all too clearly what perhaps she should have been aware of earlier . |
| 26 | Because the blinkers had finally fallen from her eyes when he had asked her if it could be worse . |
| 27 | Although stocks have fallen from their earlier high of 32 million tonnes due to an upsurge in the steel industry , at the end of June 1984 stocks still stood at 18 million tonnes . |
| 28 | These trousers had fallen from their hanger , and had laid unnoticed in the wardrobe bottom for a damp week . |
| 29 | And the body lay as Jerome described , across the path , the hood fallen from his head and face . |
| 30 | A year ago today came the first reports that publisher Robert Maxwell had fallen from his yacht to his death . |