Example sentences of "[verb] light " in BNC.
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| 1 | City Of Joy , which is due for release in Britain next month , has given light to a showcase of talent such as Shabana Azmi and Om Puri , both of whom are tipped to take Oscars early next year . |
| 2 | There is a way to make neutrinos decay without producing light — you can achieve almost anything in this sort of physics , as long as you are willing to do nasty things to pretty theories — but it involves conjuring up yet another new particle . |
| 3 | First generation systems use such fibres with gallium -aluminium-arsenide semiconductor lasers producing light at about 0.8 micrometres . |
| 4 | These dramatic spectacles are caused by charged particles , which are accelerated in solar flares , being diverted towards the poles by the Earth 's magnetic field where they enter the upper atmosphere causing ionisation and producing light . |
| 5 | The second group has shorter seed longevity and rarer seeding , germination in the open in some or in the shade in others , trees living for 100–300 years and producing light to dark woods of medium weight . |
| 6 | Bare patches at the hedge base are the result of excessive height , uncontrolled weed growth or a hedge profile which obstructs light from filtering down . |
| 7 | How does it how does it make light ? |
| 8 | It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light . |
| 9 | It is not really consistent to treat light like cannonballs . |
| 10 | In fact , it is not really consistent to treat light like cannonballs in Newton 's theory of gravity because the speed of light is fixed . |
| 11 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 12 | Besides diffracting light through material slits ( Young 's slits ) , one can diffract atoms through gratings composed of immaterial light waves , atoms through slits composed of other atoms and , now , light off a pair of atoms suspended in a vacuum in a magnetic field ( U. Eichmann et al . |
| 13 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 14 | Optical fibre is made of very thin glass , which is flexible and so transparent that it can transmit light with very little attenuation . |
| 15 | It may be difficult to channel light into the tiny core of such a fibre . |
| 16 | More generally , water will show up from a distance by catching and reflecting light from the sky . |
| 17 | Reflecting light , ‘ increasing ’ space — every home should have some . |
| 18 | The real beauty of watercolour lies in the ability of the paper , with the help of the gum arabic binder , to hold the pigment particles within its fibres — thus reflecting light from the pigment itself , as well as the paper 's surface . |
| 19 | Damian stood against the sunlight flooding in through the windows , his hands thrust in his grey trouser pockets , the silver watch-chain across his powerful chest reflecting light . |
| 20 | I put their bins out , change light bulbs , they 're not afraid to ask . |
| 21 | Both your names mean light , both of you have — ’ |
| 22 | I mean light is travels at a pretty constant speed , does n't it ? |
| 23 | The final obstacle to his progress was overcome just before sunrise and thus the sun god was reanimated to embark on his morning boat and bring light again to the earth . |
| 24 | But he had gone in there anyway , carrying a torch which flung light into dark comers , showing snakes , scorpions and even a grinning skull . |
| 25 | Hair-thin glass filaments that transmit information using light , optical fibres are now cheap enough to compete with copper ; their reliability and security appeal to Pentagon generals . |
| 26 | Gratzel was one of the first chemists to split water using light . |
| 27 | In addition , some bacteria and all green plants have evolved ways of using light as a source of energy . |
| 28 | Sending such digital signals lends itself well to using light along optical fibres rather than electrical signals along copper wires . |
| 29 | Then came the advent of the digital computer and this brought about the concept of setting type by using light — phototypesetting . |
| 30 | A Raman spectrum is normally excited using light of a frequency that is not absorbed by the sample . |