Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the light [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we praise God for all our circumstances , seeing them in the light of his presence and love , then we become literally ‘ thankful persons ’ , transfused by a new radiance of joy and thanksgiving . |
| 2 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 3 | I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances . |
| 4 | I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition . |
| 5 | I played him by the light of the moon until he was sufficiently exhausted to be manoeuvred into a bucket on the end of a stout rope . |
| 6 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 7 | ‘ They will try to shoot us in the light from the door . ’ |
| 8 | The tears were streaming down his face ; I could see them in the light from my room . |
| 9 | During the automatic processing stage an attempt was made to locate the targets indicated by the cross-references , and so validate them , and , where necessary modify them in the light of changes made to entries during automatic integration . |
| 10 | The goal of art history is first to place the work of art in history and then assess it in the light of its unique position . |
| 11 | ‘ We bring what we believe is the best art , and let people see it in the light of their own country and in the light of their own culture ’ , he says . |
| 12 | ‘ All right over there ? ’ she called to Leon Kennedy who was peering into a dish , tilting it towards the light of a portrait above . |
| 13 | The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory . |
| 14 | Within NERC , the major funding body for earth science research in UK universities as well as in its own institutions , several Visiting Groups have looked at the work of most sections of the British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , often evaluating it in the light of concurrent university research . |
| 15 | However absurd these may seem in some respects , we have to read them in the light of the knowledge then available . |
| 16 | And then , horizontally down the spine , so that he had to turn it round to read it in the light of a street lamp . |
| 17 | You may wish to leave your monthly transfer at the same amount ; or you may want to amend it in the light of an increase in the cost of living or changes in your expenditure plans . |
| 18 | Rather , as in social anthropology , it is possible to develop a dynamic model in which the student begins from the acute self-consciousness that his or her own concepts may be culture-specific at depths so far unexamined , and so starts out tentatively from them , being ready to revise them in the light of new ethnography . |
| 19 | The students find that the basic sciences ‘ make sense ’ when they come to revise them in the light of some clinical experience — as one student stated recently : ‘ It 's not so much revision as vision . ’ |
| 20 | Sam saw her in the light from the lamp-post opposite , strong and solid , a natural leader of men , the spectacles glinting , wire teeth smiling in triumph . |
| 21 | My client is prepared to supply the necessary capital , regarding it in the light of a reasonable business investment . ’ |
| 22 | By reserving his rights he does not achieve a legal impasse , and indeed , if this is the goal , he should be advised to terminate the contract and re-negotiate it in the light of the new circumstances . |
| 23 | If the answer is No the network returns to the first activity and reconsiders it in the light of the objections raised in the question lozenge . |
| 24 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 25 | Conversation can also provide them with one of the most effective means for trying out ideas and modifying them in the light of the feedback received . |
| 26 | But we are going to review it in the light of the criticism . ’ |
| 27 | The scientific approach to the world of nature developed as a way of looking to see what was actually there and interpreting it in the light of its own evidence instead of simply accepting received , traditional wisdom . |
| 28 | But it needs to be borne in mind that such connections are not an automatic or necessary consequence of the formal structure of the poetry ; they are the result of the reader 's bringing his own sensibility and experience to bear on the text , and interpreting it in the light of his own conscious or unconscious idea of the nature and function of literature . |
| 29 | On his return to the USA Horton decided that it was time to try out some of his ideas , and to test them with the light of practical experience . |
| 30 | With regard to China , they maintained the financial and other sanctions imposed in 1989 in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre , while agreeing to reconsider them in the light of future improvements concerning respect for human rights in particular . |