Example sentences of "fall from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This long immunity undoubtedly owed something to their impeccable Yorkist background , and its termination may , conversely , be partly explained by the fall from favour of their other patron , the earl of Warwick . |
| 2 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |
| 3 | This long immunity undoubtedly owed something to their impeccable Yorkist background , and its termination may , conversely , be partly explained by the fall from favour of their other patron , the earl of Warwick . |
| 4 | The construction work began in May last year and the first operation was to level the site , which had a six-metre fall from north to south . |
| 5 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 6 | The reduction in the plasma CRP concentration as the acute phase response subsides may be similarly rapid , with a fall from peak with a half time of 48 hours , as hepatocyte production of CRP rapidly decreases . |
| 7 | Rugby Union : Bridgend fall from title chase |
| 8 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 9 | ‘ I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven ’ |
| 10 | He had an uncharacteristic fall from grace in his match against Connell . |
| 11 | He was head of the Military Intelligence Service ( MIS ) until his fall from grace in 1983 , when it was thought that Ne Win , Burma 's autocratic ruler since 1962 , perceived him as a threat to his leadership . |
| 12 | The pound 's fall from grace has not been quite as marked as the stock market 's recovery but , for all the Government 's protestations about the need for a firm exchange rate , its decline has been very sharp . |
| 13 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 14 | There is no connection between it and my son 's fall from grace as I 'm sure you will understand . |
| 15 | The competition was soon simplified with the fall from grace of William Craig . |
| 16 | That Reagan managed to escape public disgrace was probably only because Americans found it very hard so soon after Nixon to see another president fall from grace , since the presidency is the last moral totem pole the nation possesses . |
| 17 | In the past the fall from grace of the flat roof was due to series of problems : inappropriate combinations of waterproofing material , insulation and decking ; low durability waterproofing materials ; poor design and detailing ; and low quality installation . |
| 18 | As Durgnat himself put it , to explain the film 's fall from grace , ‘ Jimmy Porter came along ’ . |
| 19 | Johnstone has confronted his fall from grace with the kind of honest self-awareness that is rare in habitual drinkers . |
| 20 | With the smallest fall from grace , it is quickly turned into badness . |
| 21 | The fall from grace of Heritage Secretary Mr Mellor earned him joint second place with the BBC 's ratings disaster Eldorado . |
| 22 | FERGIE is throwing a Christmas party for the people who gave her the courage to get over her fall from grace in the Royal Family . |
| 23 | For Arsenal , on the other hand , it seemed to be the night which confirmed their fall from grace as the Premier League 's early season favourites . |
| 24 | Now , shut out of the heavyweight division since Tyson 's fall from grace , mired in lawsuits and under investigation by several state boxing commissions , the taxman and the FBI , Don King has had to lay off staff and is struggling to keep his empire from crumbling . |
| 25 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most dramatic fall from grace was the case of Hu Yaobang . |
| 27 | BEFORE the two-pronged Antipodean attack on the Springboks few South Africans were prepared to anticipate a plummeting fall from grace . |
| 28 | IBM Corp 's fall from grace , which led to Standard & Poor 's Corp downgrading its senior ratings to double-A-minus from triple-A , has not affected the triple-A asset-backed certificate ratings of IBM 1990 , 1991 and 1992 Tax-Exempt Grantor Trusts , the rating agency said after reviewing the situation . |
| 29 | The turmoil caused by IBM Corp 's fall from grace , Burton explained , has presented Legent with an ideal opportunity . |
| 30 | Such arguments perhaps illustrate the extent of the fall from grace to positivist criminology in recent years . |