Example sentences of "[noun] have fallen [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An object 's appearance is the first way we recognise where it comes from : a Volkswagen ‘ Beetle ’ is an instantly recognisable shape even if the VW badge has fallen off the car ; likewise we recognise a Rolls Royce . |
| 2 | A great grief has fallen upon the kingdom and there is deep apprehension for the future . |
| 3 | The tailwheel has fallen through the surface and the yoke was broken , so an immediate take-off was out of the question . |
| 4 | Capital investment has fallen from the abnormal peak in 1991 , when we acquired Petromed in Spain . |
| 5 | It is important that you should recognise the legal obligation incurred once the Auctioneer 's hammer has fallen in the sale room . |
| 6 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 7 | Ron 's glance had fallen upon the huge mound of nettle roots and bramble stems that was the product of Edward 's afternoon . |
| 8 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 9 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 10 | Ulster champion jockey Paddy Graffin was taken to hospital with an injured hand after Late Stretch had fallen in the Mares Race , but he returned in time to ride Glenmavis in the final race . |
| 11 | A fresh sheet of snow had fallen in the night which now lay two or three inches thick , the cold wind freezing it hard . |
| 12 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 13 | The sapling trees had grown tall in the twenty-five years since the Beeching axe had fallen on the single railway track , and , even leafless as they were , they effectively screened the view from the top . |
| 14 | Below him he could hear the passing wail of sirens , a familiar sound after dark had fallen over the city . |
| 15 | My books had fallen on the ground . |
| 16 | Millward Brown use their own proprietary system of analysis — a form of mathematical modelling — to translate the data for each individual brand into a so-called ‘ awareness index ’ ; and many of their clients have fallen into the tempting habit of using this single number as a measure of the effectiveness of a commercial or campaign , rather than taking the trouble to make a more detailed study of the data underlying the index . |
| 17 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 18 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 19 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 20 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 21 | That proportion has fallen since the mid-1960s . |
| 22 | As the resistance R c is still included in the circuit the winding current can be monitored and when the control voltage has fallen to the transistor T2 is switched on again . |
| 23 | A thirteen year old boy has fallen through the window of his school bus as it went round a corner . |
| 24 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 25 | If you are feeling adventurous and you have a lot of children coming , you can make a second wall with pieces of chocolate surrounding it representing Humpty Dumpty having fallen off the wall . |
| 26 | Orton and Lewis ( 1931 ) found the proportion of Nucella to Urosalpinx to have fallen on the oyster beds in the Blackwater Estuary under similar circumstances . |
| 27 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 28 | He 'd never thought that you could shiver in a desert , but it was late afternoon and the sun had fallen behind the hills and a chill wind cut across the graves . |
| 29 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 30 | Security chiefs are understood to be deeply annoyed that information about today 's celebrations has fallen into the hands of the IRA . |