Example sentences of "fall [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 2 | ( This , again , will have fallen somewhat in the following two years . ) |
| 3 | As Basil Yeaxley put it back in 1925 : " the spiritual has a wider character than the religious , just as the religious does not fall wholly within the spiritual " ( Yeaxley 1925 : 46 ) . |
| 4 | The hardship of saving water will fall most on the poorest people . |
| 5 | Whatever the impact of the Gulf , America 's deteriorating economy suggests that the dollar could fall further in the short run . |
| 6 | The work of French women theorists is also beginning to be translated and discussed in this country , although for French theorists , the boundaries between philosophy , literary theory and psychoanalytic theory are often fluid , so that their work does not always fall clearly into the familiar categories of philosophy . |
| 7 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 8 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
| 9 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 10 | All this will fall hard on the private sector . |
| 11 | Barnet is unusual : as the table shows , most households in the country will fall conveniently into the five lowest bands . |
| 12 | He did , however , fall heavily for the young woman who is now his wife . |
| 13 | It had fallen backwards into the narrow eight-feet-deep pipe while grazing at night . |
| 14 | Maybe you have fallen away from the regular practice of your faith ; perhaps , you have a feeling of hurt or of being let down or ignored — well , it 's easy to come back again . |
| 15 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 16 | Prices have fallen steeply in the last year , and while this year 's drop will not be so dramatic , prices will continue to fall . |
| 17 | M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year . |
| 18 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 19 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 20 | To insist that on the contrary it is a fact of nature is to fall straight into the classic folklinguistic trap . |
| 21 | With the country more and more forced into self-sufficiency , land was exhaustively cultivated , and by the closing stages of the war , when supplies from abroad had completely dried up , domestic production had fallen far below the 1941 level . |
| 22 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 23 | On the following day the share price index , which had fallen sharply during the previous year ( largely because funds had been siphoned from the stock exchange into real estate speculation ) , rose by almost 30 points , one of its biggest one-day gains . |
| 24 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 25 | I am also pleased to inform my hon. Friend that ophthalmology waiting lists have fallen substantially during the past year . |
| 26 | Remarriage rates ( the number of marriages per thousand divorced persons ) have fallen continuously since the 1970s , largely due to the growing popularity of cohabitation between marriages . |
| 27 | Land prices have fallen dramatically during the past four years ( by an average of 35 per cent according to the Departmentof the Environment ) and the prices of materials and services have also fallen . |
| 28 | I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent . |
| 29 | Road accidents in the North-East have fallen dramatically in the last ten years . |
| 30 | In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years . |