Example sentences of "would fall [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 2 | I think she would fall into the lazy slob category , Peggy ? |
| 3 | Stalin adhered to the agreement because he wished to maintain satisfactory relations with the United States if possible and perhaps because he felt that sooner or later Korea would fall into the Soviet sphere in any case . |
| 4 | The same survey showed that the majority of meetings would fall into the 100–280 delegate bracket , and that provincial hotels would be the greatest beneficiaries . |
| 5 | Otherwise I was afraid I would fall into the old trap of pitying him . |
| 6 | Through these she would fall into the muddy embrace , dirty with droppings , of the chicken coop below . |
| 7 | If the planes are to avoid the danger of anti-aircraft fire or missiles , they have to fly so high that any drop would be liable to miss its target , with the danger that the supplies would fall into the wrong hands , or even injure those whom it is intended to help . |
| 8 | In his absence the task would fall to the best man . |
| 9 | In the event that the current Parliament was unable to select a new President , the task would fall to the new parliament emerging from the April 8 general election . |
| 10 | Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This interface will function optically as a convex mirror , and light incident on it — which normally would not be perceived because it would fall on the blind spot , will be reflected back into the eye . |
| 13 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 14 | As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 . |
| 15 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 16 | He therefore leaked his deepest , darkest secret , but selectively , to those half-way in the know already ; and he made it deliberately dramatic , so that there was still a good chance it would fall within the wide range of hyperbole or blarney that his listeners already allowed for . |
| 17 | On Nov. 28 a team from the Ogaden National Liberation Front ( ONLF ) visiting the Dire Dawa area appealed to the transitional government to improve the delivery and distribution of food relief to the " Somali " people of the drought-striken Ogaden autonomous region ( which would fall within the proposed Somali region ) . |