Example sentences of "light [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floor lamps can give general or directional light depending on the type . |
| 2 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 3 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 4 | When the orphans of the Chancery case find their way to Bleak House , they are guided by its ‘ light sparkling on the top of a hill ’ . |
| 5 | Suddenly in the darkness I saw a light moving on the ceiling . |
| 6 | ‘ There is something wrong with your alternator , ’ he added , pointing to the red light glowing on the dashboard . |
| 7 | Although subsequently in the 1910s and early 1920s , she furthered her experiments with abstraction in watercolour and oil , examples of which include the ‘ Evening Star ’ series ( 1917 ) and ‘ Blue and Green Music ’ ( 1919 ) , she also made paintings that were decidedly realistic in character , like ‘ Plums ’ ( 1920 ) , or semi-abstract , like ‘ Light Coming on the Plains II ’ ( 1917 ) . |
| 8 | Certain colour vocabularies are more likely to be adopted than others because of another rule : the retinal colour cones and certain interneurons within the brain encode light into four basic colours , even when the wavelength of light falling on the eye varies in a continuous manner . |
| 9 | These carry information concerning the light falling on the various regions of the retina . |