Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] fall on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , it seems likely that much weight will fall on the final major justification for the project , diversity of fuel supplies . |
| 2 | The lamp rests on the manuscript so that enough light will fall on the corner of the sofa in which the man sits in the evening to read his paper . |
| 3 | If one side of the package is replaced by a glass window , so that light can fall on the memory cells , then it is found that the incident light accelerates the decay process in manner proportional both to the intensity and to the duration of the exposure . |
| 4 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 5 | ‘ I know suspicion would fall on the Prince , Lord Gaveston , the French , or even the King . |
| 6 | The best bet on National day is that another record will fall on the fast turf and that a vast number of runners will clear the 30 fences . |
| 7 | This is done here , partly directly , as in the injunction to be like the serpent , and partly indirectly , in her perversion of such words as ‘ milk ’ or ‘ nature ’ , Her parting injunction to him is to ‘ look up clear ’ ( 71 ) , ‘ clear ’ meaning ‘ innocent , spotless ’ : the stress must fall on the verb , ‘ look ’ or ‘ seem , . |
| 8 | Inevitably , if there were only two people in a stage play , the full weight of one actor 's criticism would fall on the other . |
| 9 | However , an ex gratia payment to an older man who has no full-time employment in prospect could fall on the other side of the line . |
| 10 | The more inelastic the supply curve and the more elastic the demand curve , the more the final incidence will fall on the seller rather than the purchaser . |
| 11 | The main responsibility will fall on the Irish Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC council of ministers at the end of the month , and the Italians , who take over in July . |
| 12 | This may well be resisted by the landlord on the basis that the risk of unlet property should fall on the tenant . |
| 13 | The circular acknowledged that the main burden of providing such care would fall on the local authorities and it aimed to ease this by extending provision for the transfer of NHS financial resources to those local authorities or voluntary bodies that offered to develop community care projects specifically for long-stay hospital patients . |
| 14 | He says ’ It could be solved … but in that case it would mean paying twice … the cost would fall on the poll tax payer . |
| 15 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 16 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 17 | Although the local authority has powers to adopt private roads , it may be reluctant to apply them as the cost of the road construction will fall on the landowners proportionate to their road frontage . |
| 18 | ‘ I am sure , ’ Queen Margaret intervened smoothly , ‘ no suspicion of foul play can fall on the Cardinal 's nephew . ’ |
| 19 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 20 | In the winter , snow or , more usually , hail can fall on the tops of the highest mountains and yet one hour 's drive down in Funchal people are swimming and sunbathing . |