Example sentences of "[conj] fall into " in BNC.

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1 This suggests that containers of food were placed in the cooking-holes and that hot ash was piled around them to cook the contents , which sometimes boiled over or fell into the ash , leading to carbonization and preservation .
2 After the Reformation the monasteries were largely destroyed or fell into ruin .
3 So millions of lives are launched in a multitude of different ways hopping from a pouch , tumbling from a womb , clambering out of a capsule , hammering open an eggshell or falling into the sea , scattered wholesale like seeds .
4 Miles of poverty with modern adobe dwellings either being built or falling into ruin .
5 Missing a shot or falling into the net will result in a laugh from your opponent as he puts his hand on his stomach and leans forward .
6 If flexibility is insufficient and the golfer tries to reach the parallel position with the club at the top of the backswing , the body will compensate either by folding the right foot onto its side , which can lead to the collapse of the same knee , or falling into a reverse pivot .
7 Most firms that collapse or fall into financial difficulties have not had their financial statements qualified on a going concern basis .
8 If these responsibilities be shirked , valuable and important work will either be held up for want of teachers or fall into the hands of those ill qualified to deal with it …
9 ( 3 ) There will , however , be cases which are ‘ extraordinary ’ or fall into a ‘ special category . ’
10 Rather than fall into the hands of the Witch King 's servants he jumped into the sea in full armour .
11 It would be preferable for Taiwan to be returned to Japan rather than fall into communist hands .
12 In such a case better to accept whatever penalties the Church might impose , however harsh , for theft and deceit , rather than fall into the hands of the secular law , my law , ’ said Hugh firmly , ‘ where murder is a hanging matter .
13 That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores .
14 Since the antimatter particle did not have any existence before , the Universe has received an injection of extra energy ; on the other hand , it has lost the energy of the particle that fell into the black hole , so things seem to have evened themselves out .
15 These were primarily large institutions that fell into four groupings : commercial banks ; financial exchanges ; securities and investment banks ; and others , such as building societies and credit unions .
16 Most finds that were simply lost ( small and easily mislaid , such as coins and brooches ) or objects that fell into places from which they could not be retrieved , such as wells , are often complete and may be in very good condition , depending on the materials from which they are made and the conditions in which they have been buried .
17 The number of NHS patients referred from fundholding practices to private clinics ( paid for out of the fundholder 's budget ) in phase 2 was small : of the 59 referrals that fell into this category , most were for vasectomy or female sterilisation .
18 It would have had a beginning in the big bang , about fifteen billion years ago , and it would come to an end for a star that collapsed and for anything that fell into the black hole the collapsing star left behind .
19 Particles that fell into one black hole would appear as particles emitted by the other black hole , and vice versa .
20 The baby universes that take the particles that fell into the hole occur in what is called imaginary time .
21 Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity , and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside .
22 He trusted nobody and hoped for nothing , but the little delights that fell into his lap by the way had their due in appreciation at last .
23 This is the stream that falls into Gaping Gill on the moor above as Fell Beck and , after a tortuous journey through the bowels of the earth , returns to daylight here with the name of Clapham Beck .
24 Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time .
25 The danger is that many businesses are waiting until there is a problem , or even a crisis , to be sorted out before they ask for advice from a solicitor — as said : ‘ Regrettably , lawyers are seen as a cure , not a preventative ’ — and it is the smaller , more vulnerable business that falls into it most .
26 Still , he thought with a shudder , perhaps it was better than falling into the hands of those negroes out there !
27 She does not idealise those groups , nor fall into the trap of soft-focusing on the ‘ New Man ’ as the answer to all women 's problems .
28 We must neither deny what is going to happen to us , nor fall into a depression without hope .
29 The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category .
30 And the ionised air can glow , taking on a shape , according to Persinger , similar to that popularly ascribed to many UFOs that fall into the category of UAPs .
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