Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the light " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I was wakened by someone else in the room fumbling for the light switch . |
| 2 | As he passed through the light spilling into the inn-yard from one of the windows , a voice from a deep , shadowed doorway called , ‘ Hello , Seb . |
| 3 | If you choose a switched FCU , it can also act as the light 's on/off switch . |
| 4 | Finally , he stepped inside , groping for the light switch . |
| 5 | Groping for the light switch , whose position he had not yet memorised perfectly , he saw the evening 's post still lying on the table in the hall where he had put it before he came out . |
| 6 | What I could tell I have told , and the rest must wait for the light . |
| 7 | They always fly towards the light do flies , so it 's no trouble . |
| 8 | It was sleeting , the ice-cold droplets driving past the light on the quay in a white mist , the freighter 's stern glistening as though with salt spray . |
| 9 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 10 | Then he 'd realised he was silhouetted against the light and had leapt away from the glass , his kneecaps tingling . |
| 11 | Hurry with the light , Tommy ! ’ |
| 12 | Between her and Christopher there had been no euphoria to fade into the light of common day . |
| 13 | The survey , which is being designed in the light of parallel work currently being undertaken by other ESRC-funded research projects on the public understanding of science , will measure a combination of background , psychological and social factors in relation to people 's expressed levels of interest in , attitudes towards , and informedness about the world of science . |
| 14 | I mention this variety of rites , which are in process of preparation , because the main route whereby people are introduced to and grow in the light of the church , baptism as infants , confirmation in early teens , leading to faithful communicant life , that route is no longer followed by quite a number in our fellowship . |
| 15 | Not that their slightly geekish demeanour really matters in the light of much of tonight 's set . |
| 16 | This association is to be expected in the light of the composition of this factor , which includes ‘ threat ’ as one of its components . |
| 17 | This model has now been virtually discarded in the light of more recent research which has revealed features incompatible with this picture . |
| 18 | The chalice glistens in the light . |
| 19 | ‘ Our biggest problem with A-levels is that they have not been modified in the light of the GCSE , ’ says Brian Howseman , principal of Luton Sixth Form College . |
| 20 | Marx 's and Engels 's views about slavery should also be modified in the light of more recent work . |
| 21 | Mr Palomar can be read as a series of representations of the world , attempted reproductions and descriptions of the out-there being constantly modified in the light of new experience and new information . |
| 22 | For all the fact that some of these claims need to be modified in the light of historical research , there can be no doubting that the nineteenth century was pre-eminently ‘ The Railway Age ’ . |
| 23 | It must not be followed rigidly but should be modified in the light of information that becomes available as the test progresses . |
| 24 | The examination schedule drawn up at the beginning of the test may need to be modified in the light of findings in the earlier stages of the test . |
| 25 | Like the gap between theory and practice , ideal situations must be modified in the light of local practice , and there is no body with the authority to ensure that the ideal becomes reality . |
| 26 | However , HIV and AIDS continue to inspire a vast amount of medical and social research , especially in sexual and drug-taking behaviour , and advice can be modified in the light of this . |
| 27 | Since all of our methods rely on making working hypotheses about the functional organization of the brain , these assumptions should be kept in mind all the time , and , if necessary , modified in the light of experimental evidence . |
| 28 | Accordingly , the programme was designed so that it could be modified in the light of experience , and families could choose to discontinue investigation at every stage from the initial screening test to the confirmed diagnosis . |
| 29 | Such views will be modified in the light of the classroom development of program and its associated documentation . |
| 30 | First used in 1949 , the system was modified in the light of experience in 1953 and 1956 . |