Example sentences of "of [noun sg] fall on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 2 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 3 | Certain colour vocabularies are more likely to be adopted than others because of another rule : the retinal colour cones and certain interneurons within the brain encode light into four basic colours , even when the wavelength of light falling on the eye varies in a continuous manner . |
| 4 | Spreadbury , who had an otherwise impressive debut , had no explanation , though the ankle-deep water — 78 millimetres of rain fell on the pitch in about seven hours — must have been a distraction . |
| 5 | Another is the mixture of toxic liquid seeping out of the decaying rubbish which , with the help of rain falling on the tip , leaches into our groundwater steams . |
| 6 | Then a few drops of water fell on the side and fell right down to earth . |
| 7 | It is therefore advisable to place water lilies away from your fountain and water fall , to minimise the amount of water falling on the leaves . |
| 8 | All the onus of learning falls on the heuristic part . |
| 9 | Bits of mud fell on the floor . |
| 10 | Tim Roberts , for Mason , said he had suffered mood swings after he had suffered injuries in an accident when a plate of glass fell on the side of his head last year . |
| 11 | 10 Burden of proof Dealing first with the question of reasonableness as between the parties it is now accepted that the burden of proof falls on the party seeking to enforce the restraint . |
| 12 | Trevor Davies of the UEA team estimated that at least 20 tonnes of soot fell on the Cairngorms that night , forming a layer of snow at least 5 cm thick and affecting an area of over 200 km² ; . |