Example sentences of "have fallen under " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilts has fallen under the spell of each in turn — not so deeply as to distort fact , but deeply enough to lose the sardonic , sceptical qualities that ought never quite to desert the journalist . |
| 2 | But the other me , the gypsy , has fallen under the Evil Eye , and a shrill voice has pierced the air : Be accursed ! |
| 3 | Yet , over the same period , research training has fallen under another shadow . |
| 4 | But nationally the clear up rate has fallen under the Conservatives from forty-one percent to twenty six percent , and there is no excuse at all for a freeze on the number of police officers when we were promised an extra thousand . |
| 5 | In the method described previously , the analyst tries to select sentences ( or passages of some other size ) whose meaning is fairly ‘ neutral ’ from the emotional point of view , and will tend to avoid material such as ‘ Why do n't you leave me alone ? ’ or ‘ How can I ever thank you enough ? ’ because the lexical meaning of the words used already makes the speaker 's attitude pretty clear , whereas sentences such as ‘ She 's going to buy it tomorrow ’ or ‘ The paper has fallen under the table ’ are less likely to prejudice the listener . |
| 6 | To Pavel , and probably to many of the others who 'd fallen under her influence , she was the most uncommon criminal ever . |
| 7 | There was no incredible bulging at the centre ; no cracks , no jagged patches where plaster might have fallen under the strain . |
| 8 | During a lull , when for once nothing seemed to have fallen under the machine , she tried to catch her attention . |
| 9 | Finally , in 1919 , a special commission reported that the thin layer of workers had fallen under the influence of ‘ colonially nationalistic hangers-on ’ . |
| 10 | The Maronites complained that areas of the country had fallen under Palestinian control , especially the Arkoub , which was now known as Fatahland . |
| 11 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 12 | When he had time to take account of the situation , it seemed that Bill Oldenshaw had fallen under the train at the crossing and been killed outright . |
| 13 | But by 1921 Austen was an ideological coalitionist for both personal and tactical reasons : he had fallen under the personal sway of Lloyd George , he was influenced by Birkenhead and Horne , and he had no doubt that a coalition alone would be able to contain Labour . |
| 14 | He might have told her that she , Katherine , had fallen under the spell of all this , but with a difference . |
| 15 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 16 | Once Narcissus had fallen under the spell of Aphrodite he was lost . |
| 17 | She bent to retrieve her bag from where it had fallen under the seat and saw the parcel which made her heart sink . |
| 18 | A Tory MP and a member of the Government Whips ' Office , he , too , had fallen under the spell of the late Emma Kerr , but that was water under another bridge . |
| 19 | They had been down here in Devon for almost two weeks , and already she had fallen under the lazy , carefree spell of the tranquil countryside . |
| 20 | Because of you , your fellow officers have fallen under suspicion ! |