Example sentences of "falling in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contagious fogs ; which , falling in the land , |
| 2 | WHILE the number of mortgage defaulters is rising in Britain , it is falling in the United States . |
| 3 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 4 | station chimneys falling in the rain where it damages trees and kills fish seems to us more like second-rate science fiction than a description of real events … |
| 5 | By the late 1980s , only 19 per cent of the sulphur falling in the UK was estimated to come from other countries , the lowest percentage in Western Europe . |
| 6 | What have you been doing — falling in the river again ? ’ |
| 7 | To excite an electron out of its bond requires high frequency radiation , falling in the ultra-violet part of the spectrum . |
| 8 | There was the experience for Daniel of falling in the water at a very early age , followed by the frequent admonitions of his anxious parents . |
| 9 | A second before she slept she caught sight of a windsurfer falling in the far distance . |
| 10 | IN May , June and November three eclipses falling in the money market of your chart indicate a degree of changeability . |
| 11 | Williams was disqualified after falling in the race , sending Sweden 's Maria Akraka and Italian Fabia Trabaldo sprawling . |
| 12 | With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 . |
| 13 | Plants in Taiwan , Ireland and Australia are likely to be hit , with the boom falling in the summer ; Wang promises to continue to service the software and hardware it has already sold . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when they crossed a run that led upwards to a hole , he could hear the rain outside , still falling in the night . |
| 15 | Gavin Drewry 's analysis of the grant and refusal of leave to appeal to the House of Lords in 1971 demonstrated that leave was routinely refused in cases where the second appeal raised issues of review , that leave was granted in cases involving issues of supervision , and that there was a mixture of refusals and grants in cases falling in the grey area of reconsideration of authority without critical re-appraisal of the cases ( Drewry , 1973 ) . |
| 16 | First , they have argued that the gradual increase in peasant investment and in levels of consumption both of food and consumer goods in the countryside suggests that , abjectly poor though many were , on average peasant living standards may have been rising rather than falling in the decades immediately prior to the revolution of 1905 . |
| 17 | Both population and employment were already falling in the former London County Council area between 1951 and 1961 , and the process intensified in all cities after 1966 . |
| 18 | The graph to the right shows that house prices have been falling in the last year or so , after 11 years of rises . |
| 19 | In the 1850s and 1860s , before cold storage was introduced , the dead-meat trade was seasonal , the heaviest burden falling in the coldest months of the year , between September and May . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that a giant meteorite falling in the Atlantic would produce a wave twenty thousand feet high . |
| 21 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe falling in the nettles was an accident . |
| 23 | Industrial output fell by 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 , falling in the engineering sector by 14.2 per cent but rising in the food industry by 13 per cent . |
| 24 | With his popularity falling in the opinion polls , and the prospect of much of his planned legislative programme becoming paralysed by the Diet 's preoccupation with the two scandals , Miyazawa even hinted that he was considering calling an early general election . |
| 25 | On several occasions I saw them and watched them while bombs were falling in the neighbourhood and air raids were overhead and asked them questions relating to war , sirens , etc … |
| 26 | ‘ Just drinking , dear boy … hair rising and falling in the water like some half-knackered jelly-fish . ’ |
| 27 | This would result in the price increasing in Germany and falling in the UK . |
| 28 | More technically movements in real wages should be countercyclical , with real wages falling in the upswing of the cycle and rising in the downswing . |
| 29 | It appears that at most it means falling in the same paragraph of Sched 1 . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you said you were n't bothered about falling in the water ? ’ |