Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] light " in BNC.
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| 1 | They in turn had then received the green light from their respective governments . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we were given the green light — unfortunately , poor Molly was accidentally stepped on a couple of times . |
| 3 | The proposal was given the green light in a post-Tiananmen panic by people who will probably be living in Hampshire when , and if , the airport is built . |
| 4 | For this reason he was given the green light to prepare more detailed proposals for further consideration . |
| 5 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 6 | Alcatel spokesman John Highhams confirmed last night his company had been promised the contract if the project was given the green light in the Chancellor 's Autumn statement . |
| 7 | With unification finally completed , Tshwete visited Australia earlier this year and the ARFU was given the green light by the ANC and by the Federal Government for inward and outward tours to South Africa . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Howard has given the green light for a windfarm development on the edge of the Lake District National Park . |
| 9 | It seems odd that the coal pfennig has been given the green light by Brussels when we have been continually led to believe that state aid for our coal industry would not be allowed . |
| 10 | PLANNERS hoping to build a £1m Somme Heritage Centre are expected to be given the green light at Ards Borough Council meeting tomorrow night . |
| 11 | A NEWTOWNABBEY beauty spot would be completely changed if a £6m council development is given the green light , a public inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 12 | A £150,000 hi-tech car wash could open next to Scarborough 's ambulance station later this year if plans are given the green light . |
| 13 | Pickering Town Football Club has been given the green light to install floodlights as part of its plan to win promotion to the Premier Division of the Northern Counties League . |
| 14 | HERBIE HIDE 's vacant British heavyweight title fight against Manchester 's Michael Murray was last night given the green light by the British Boxing Board of Control . |
| 15 | BA was given the green light for the move yesterday when President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine decided not to refer the deal to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 16 | If they are given the green light then the running costs will have to come from the police authority . |
| 17 | Wintercure , a fast-drying coating that cures in virtually any weather conditions , has been given the green light by the Ponts et Chaussees Laboratories , one of the foremost approval agencies in France . |
| 18 | A PAINT that fights bugs has been given the green light for use in ‘ sick ’ buildings . |
| 19 | The Cambridge subjects were faced with the five-choice serial reaction task , where a subject responds to one of five lights coming on by pressing one of five buttons on a continuous basis ( every time a response is made the relevant light goes out , but another one immediately comes on ) . |
| 20 | Thus , those who led the NF in the 1970s had , in many cases , a background in the most nutty forms of postwar extremism , despite claims to have seen the democratic light after these youthful indiscretions . |
| 21 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 22 | As he did so , he had seen the approaching lights of another car — the Orion . |
| 23 | For long hours at night , I have watched the dim lights of all these trucks winding their way from north to south like the coils of some gigantic snake which had no end to it . ’ |
| 24 | I suppose being realistic we could clean the car out in the evening because you only got to have the door open you 've got the interior light on |
| 25 | They 've only got the little lights in that shop . |
| 26 | and now the van 's got the red light heat coming on , on the battery , took it into the garage and checked it , it 's charging the battery alright , its alternator 's okay , but we do n't know what it is but when you turn it on , when you turn the key on in the morning |
| 27 | ‘ Many people have left the bright lights and made a success in tourism-related businesses and cottage industries , such as cheese-making and brewing , ’ says Terry Trevarthen , regional director for Miller Countrywide in Truro . |
| 28 | He has captured the characteristic light of the hill country . |
| 29 | Although the entrance was less dangerous there was an additional hazard — a power cut had extinguished the leading lights needed to enter — but car headlights were used to guide the lifeboat in to land the survivors . |