Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] and fall [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a reaction was curious , as Santa Barbara biogeologist Preston Cloud reminds us , because the very rocks beneath our feet rise and fall like the ocean tides , but imperceptibly , in a twice-daily rhythm in response to the gravitational pull of the Sun and moon . |
| 2 | He followed Ivanov 's example in Act II of Swan Lake in which Odette 's movements rise and fall with the melody . |
| 3 | With consummate skill , Trudi Pacter follows the paths of these extraordinary women from the 1960s to the present day , as their fortunes rise and fall in the high society hothouses of London and New York . |
| 4 | In many of the orchids , the bees slip and fall through the flower or into a trap , for example in Stanhopea candida in Amazonia , pollination is by Eulaema moscaryi , which ‘ falls through ’ the flower after collecting the scent ; in so doing , it brushes against the pollinia and in the next flower these are lodged in the stigmatic cavity . |
| 5 | These fenders rise and fall with the lock water level and prevent ships ' hulls from making contact with the concrete lock walls . |