Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] fall on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the axe soon to fall on the Unlisted Securities Market , CISCO seeks to promote the importance of the smaller public company . |
| 2 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 3 | Later , under the 1907 provisions for the medical inspection of children , parents ( and again the responsibility usually fell on the mother ) were told what was wrong with their children but were left with the task of seeking and paying for treatment , dependants being excluded from the provisions of the 1911 National Health Insurance Act . |
| 4 | Since information focus normally falls on the rheme or part of it , and since unmarked information structure involves placing the given element before the new one and unmarked thematic structure involves placing theme before rheme , it is not surprising that theme often coincides with given , and rheme often coincides with new . |
| 5 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 6 | Responsibility for the clean-up operation now falls on the German state , whose legacy includes two lakes filled with radioactive waste and massive tips of soil contaminated with uranium . |
| 7 | Since government did not pay for the expenses of witnesses , this cost also fell on the cattle owner . |