Example sentences of "begin to fall [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | From the 1960s onwards , period fertility rates began to fall below the replacement level throughout Europe and the rest of the industrial world , and have stayed there ever since . |
| 3 | Also in the 1900s the infant mortality rate began to fall with the result that some poorer families faced the cost of raising more children until they were old enough to work . |
| 4 | Shadows began to fall across the water from the pines on the bluff to our right , and there was peace , absolute peace over the world ; the insects stilled and the water like a mirror . |
| 5 | The birth rate also began to fall from the 1870s , initially among the professional middle class . |
| 6 | And then raindrops began to fall in the sand all around him . |
| 7 | After the first oil shock in 1973 , demand for steel began to fall in the industrial countries . |
| 8 | By the time he wrote the survey quoted above , evolutionary morphology was beginning to fall into the background as new sciences such as genetics took over the forefront of scientific research . |
| 9 | The fighting groups overbalanced into the shallower water and continued struggling there , ignoring the arrows beginning to fall from the following ships of the line , swinging up , oars flashing to fill the breadth of the river . |
| 10 | The American boy had begun to fall under the spell of the old Annamese city soon after crossing the lotus-choked moat into the Kinh Thanh , or Capital City , the first of three concentric " cities " within the citadel modeled on the ancient walled quarters of Peking . |
| 11 | House prices have already begun to fall across the country with the most recent statistics showing the Midlands and the North joining London and the South-east . |
| 12 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |