Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] throw [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should also throw light on how lack of response to iron treatment points to the need for further colonic assessment . |
| 2 | Later writers , even those sympathetic to Antal 's thesis , have admitted that the argument about class conflict in the period was exaggerated , but this does not exclude the possibility that an equally unexpected approach may not throw light on some apparently exhausted topic . |
| 3 | It could also throw light on the process by which they trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is perhaps not overly optimistic to think that the view of the relation between an event and its support put forward here may be applicable , mutatis mutandis , to the -ing form and may even throw light on the vexed question of gerund vs participle . |
| 5 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 6 | But this principle on account of its very generality can not throw light on the above distinction , and as a result the concept of individuality remains ambiguous and obscure . |
| 7 | Environmental archaeology can therefore throw light on modern as well as ancient ecological problems by providing a set of fundamental ‘ base line ’ data . |