Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] light " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such analyses use various methods to induce a sample from the object to produce a spectrum of light . |
| 32 | a fuzz of light that might have been |
| 33 | The white cat , presumably by direct contrast , was seen as a force of light against the darkness and was in this way converted into a symbol of good fortune . |
| 34 | But it will be like being in a gale of light , after this black hole . |
| 35 | A hurricane lamp and a pinpoint of light from a torch were all the girls had to guide them across the sleepers and rails . |
| 36 | You may be asked to concentrate on a pinpoint of light or on a particular spot on the ceiling while the therapist makes his suggestions of relaxation . |
| 37 | Is the blade of the desert , a fighting of light |
| 38 | There seems to be a ring of light round everything — It is still and sunny — so still you could hear a spider spin . |
| 39 | Secondly , it causes the lights to be surrounded by a ring of light , which I refer to as their halo . |
| 40 | Secondly , it causes the lights to be surrounded by a ring of light , which I refer to as their halo . |
| 41 | No star will appear as anything but a dot of light . |
| 42 | Is a flame of light and dark |
| 43 | Then she took one step more towards me so that a bar of light fell across her face and I could see the angry expression on it . |
| 44 | There was a bar of light under his own door . |
| 45 | From behind her came a spear of light that struck steam from the ground at her feet . |
| 46 | Accidents more commonly occur in dark stables than those that have a glimmer of light . |
| 47 | A GLIMMER of light has appeared on the horizon for Britain 's hard-pressed tin-mining industry . |
| 48 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 49 | The bed beside her was empty , but there were men in the yard : she could see a glimmer of light between the shutters and hear a flotsam of voices now and then , when the wind died . |
| 50 | Can anybody shed even a glimmer of light on the selection strategy ? |
| 51 | The recession — it looks as though there is a glimmer of light , but I was on the continent a couple of three weeks ago when the mortar attack took place at Number Ten and the reaction of people I met I mean it was much more marked there than it was here , or seemed to be . |
| 52 | then a percentage of light will go round the corner . |
| 53 | A degree of light emanated from the silently hurtling water , which she felt as a force urging her forward , as though she were in its grip and swept along with it . |
| 54 | A point of light shone from the centre of its forehead . |
| 55 | The fastest and most sensitive film emulsions available to photographers need about 25 times as many photons in order to detect a point of light . |
| 56 | A sort of light , faded brown , perhaps with a touch of mahogany . |
| 57 | Let us have in mind , only slightly less imprecisely , a period of light in London and thereabouts , that one I now call yesterday , and a following period of darkness , last night . |
| 58 | The sun was just catching the summit of the opposite hillside , making a corona of light over the towering cypresses . |
| 59 | The idea that a ray of light is a stream of particles is an old one , dating back at least to ancient Greece . |
| 60 | If we assume a raindrop to be roughly spherical , then the path of a ray of light through a raindrop will be roughly as depicted in Figure 2 . |