Example sentences of "falling [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 2 | It 's all right to build bridges with South Africa , but if bridges are falling down in Wales something must be done about it . ’ |
| 3 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 4 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Mr Sheffield said the acute coronary attack suffered by Mrs McGinley would have resulted in her falling down in the path of the car . |
| 6 | Soon children will be lending each other America is Falling Down in which Michael Douglas , a disillusioned middle-class businessman , grabs his gun and storms a merry path through the city , showering bullets like confetti on anyone who gets in his way : especially if they happen to be Korean or Cuban . |
| 7 | her skirt falling down in church |
| 8 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 9 | This , together with depot refurbishment and tighter controls , will enable the group to deal with any falling off in demand , according to Sir Matthew . |
| 10 | There had been , he explained in answer to questions , a great falling off in traffic . |
| 11 | These reforms were ultimately to cause the falling off in the composition of orchestrally accompanied church music as such accompaniments would only be required for special feast days and there would be no place for it in everyday circumstances . |
| 12 | After thirty years of British rule , observed the distinguished scholar-administrator Henry Fosbrooke , they displayed none of the distressing symptoms of that ‘ soul erosion ’ , defined by him as a ‘ deterioration in obedience to existing moral standards , a falling off in observance of organized religion , a lack of purpose in life ’ , which seemed so often to be the result of British efforts to bring civilization to the African . |
| 13 | Argyle and Henderson ( 1985 ) , reviewing evidence about contact between siblings , suggest that this follows a U-shape , being high in childhood and teenage years , falling off in the middle of adult life , and then picking up again as the siblings move into old age . |
| 14 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 15 | And the plaster was falling off in our bedrooms . |
| 16 | Central Office was able to keep going at full capacity through 1915 and 1916 , but here again there was a falling off in 1917 . |
| 17 | We were there to witness William getting to grips with his brand-new Jet Ski ; this process seemed to consist largely of getting on , powering away , trying to turn too fast and falling off in an extravagant splash . |
| 18 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 19 | There is a strong possibility that once again amphetamine-type drugs are being manufactured in secret laboratories around the UK , and that in fact there is no falling off in demand and use of this dangerous substance . |
| 20 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 21 | The others returned to the city , falling back in brave order till they were out of reach of the enemy : and they had done no little in that exploit , for they slew above two hundred and fifty Moors . |
| 22 | Jonesy was still struggling to get out of the grave , and this he managed only with his father 's help , after falling back in once . |
| 23 | Troopers of the rearguard were already falling back in reasonable order . |
| 24 | Early in July , it also became evident that while the Austrian troops were falling back in collapse , German formations on the front fought stubbornly and retreated with discipline . |
| 25 | Thus we see an increase between 1971 and 1978 falling back in 1985 to previous levels . |
| 26 | Lieutenant Treadwell a figure of fun and contempt to the real cops after his hair started falling out in tufts , earned his way back into Commander Moss ' good graces by authoring that portion of the Los Angeles Police Department manual which reads |
| 27 | Make proper hospital corners , or one of you will be falling out in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 28 | It 's been dripping for weeks and Timmy 's always falling about in the mud . ’ |