Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] fall on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blow fell on the 7th Division and on Allenby 's cavalry , which connected Haig 's Corps with the 3rd Corps to its south . |
| 2 | The framework fell on the bird , so it could n't escape . |
| 3 | Initially , the responsibility falls on the company to get things going . |
| 4 | On the former Yugoslavia , the summit declared that " although all parties have contributed , in their own way , to the present state of affairs , by far the greatest share of the responsibility falls on the Serbian leadership and the Yugoslav army controlled by it " . |
| 5 | Therefore , since property had not passed , the loss fell on the seller . |
| 6 | The light fell on the woman 's breast , neck , chin , and the tip of her nose , creating that gravity unique to him , which Vincent adored . |
| 7 | A glance at the corner where the copper stood , then at the doorway behind me , where the light fell on the gleaming worktops and new cupboards . |
| 8 | These carry information concerning the light falling on the various regions of the retina . |
| 9 | Out of curiosity , she let the light fall on the book doubled up under his elbow . |
| 10 | She 's since sung Pamina , Zerlina and Despina under Barenboim in Paris and , before the axe fell on the conductor 's brief reign at the Bastille , was to have done the three Da Ponte pieces with him and Patrice Chereau . |
| 11 | The footstraps being too tight , causing all the weight to fall on the windward side . |
| 12 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 13 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 14 | Does the gaze fall on the impaired body or on social barriers ? |
| 15 | An EC declaration on Bosnia-Hercegovina of May 11 , following a Foreign Ministers ' meeting , said that although all parties in the conflict bore responsibility , " by far the greatest share of the blame falls on the JNA and the authorities in Belgrade which are in control of the army , both directly and indirectly by supporting Serbian irregulars " . |
| 16 | The onus falls on the skill of the trainer who must take advantage of the experience of all those within the group , as well as working to improve areas of trainees ’ personal weaknesses . |
| 17 | With twelve and a half hours left , England were clearly up against it , so when the rain fell on the fourth day they were not too upset . |
| 18 | As the rain falls on the earth |
| 19 | There was huge relief when the curtain fell on the Saturday night performance . |
| 20 | THE curtain fell on the 1992–93 Guinness Ulster Squash League this week after a hectic campaign . |
| 21 | But organisers defiantly refused to allow the curtain to fall on the high life of the amateur drama year . |
| 22 | So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry . |
| 23 | Nevin makes a great run to the byline but his flick-back is missed in a goalmouth scramble by Malkin and John Aldridge before the keeper falls on the ball . |
| 24 | In normal speech , English has a rhythm because particular syllables are emphasised , making a pattern of stress : Normally , the stress falls on the first syllable of a word , but not always , as the examples above show . |
| 25 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 26 | With indirect taxes more favoured the burden fell on the consuming population at large , but from the point of view of the government , if such conversions did not shrink the national debt , they at least made it more controllable . |
| 27 | The vast majority of head-injured people slip through the net and the burden falls on the carers . |
| 28 | Eventually the lot fell on the King 's daughter , Hesione , who was taken to the sea shore on the appointed day and tied to a rock . |
| 29 | The image falls on the retina at the back , where it excites photocells . |
| 30 | For present purposes we need not worry about the complexity and the names of the various components in the retina if only we can answer the following question : What does a single one of these ganglion cells tell the brain about the image falling on the photoreceptors to which it connects ? |