Example sentences of "fall [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 2 | We work with people who have fallen through the existing nets of provision erm generally because their problems are so multiple that no particular one agency can deal with them . |
| 3 | The reader 's sympathy towards Pip continues to fall during the second part of his expectations due to his rejection and embarrassment of his past life . |
| 4 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 5 | Have you fallen for the coy-virgin act , my darling ? |
| 6 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 7 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 8 | She 's fallen , she 's fallen for the grey woman . |
| 9 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |
| 10 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 11 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 12 | TWO blonde beauties in Prince Charles 's life have fallen for the same attraction . |
| 13 | Any attempt to define ‘ suffering ’ , for example , is bound to fall between the two stools of being unhelpfully imprecise ( such as ‘ a diminution in wellbeing ’ ) or too precisely exclusive ( ‘ an unpleasant emotional response ’ ) . |
| 14 | Agitation caused the heavier ore to fall through the dense media into hoppers below , whilst the waste rode off with the current of water into further units , and eventually the sand pile . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd promised I would never fall for the obvious attractions of another beautiful woman , but from the moment I held you in my arms my instinct told me that you were as different from Lotta as wine is from vinegar . ’ |
| 16 | Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business . |
| 17 | A slight ‘ upstand ’ at one end of the roof ensures that the water will not fall off the wrong end . |
| 18 | For example , as a plagioclase-rich layer sediments , fast-settling olivine formed in the overlying layer can fall through the interfacial zone and the excess density flux can overturn the layer . |
| 19 | The acquisition will initially increase Pilkington 's gearing to 90 per cent , but this will fall after the anticipated sale of the spectacle-lens business , Sola . |
| 20 | Next month I will finally fall of the back page , to be replaced by columns of Classified Ads inserted by 60-year-old male Vl Diff leaders seeking 24-year-old female partners for climbing and what have you . |
| 21 | The 1959 Defence White Paper announced that the Army would be allowed to recruit up to a ceiling of 180,000 ‘ to ensure that its strength shall not fall below the planned figure of 165,000 ’ — a lame excuse since this requirement was just as valid in 1957 . |
| 22 | There was thus a legal obligation to ensure the packets did not fall below the required weight , but on the other hand the company did not want to give free biscuits to customers by making the packets heavier than necessary . |
| 23 | Assuming that the 20 per cent of pupils outside the TGAT 's expectations were equally divided above and below the ‘ normal ’ range , then 10 per cent of 5 to 16 year olds might fall below the required levels . |
| 24 | However , if there are adverse exogenous shocks to the established unionized sector ( such as a worsening of outside opportunities , an adverse demand shock , or increasing polarization in attitudes to the trade union movement ) , then equilibrium wages and membership may fall below the critical level , and the union vanish from the sector . |
| 25 | If it is not renewed , which may well be the case , the products which it now covers will then fall under the general rules of the EEC Treaty . |
| 26 | Even countries such as Indonesia , India and Japan , though they might not succumb to communism , could fall under the red shadow . |
| 27 | It clearly does not fall into the easy trap of arguing that for crime to exist there must first be intention . |
| 28 | When you receive the buyer 's requisitions on title , try to be more helpful than " cagey " in your answers and do n't fall into the easy habit of giving stereotyped and evasive replies if you could be more helpful . |
| 29 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 30 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |