Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to light [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 2 | A preliminary version of ‘ La Danse ’ , a mural painting executed in 1933 by Henri Matisse for the home of Dr Barnes at Merion near Philadelphia ( see p.7 ) has recently come to light in the possessions of the youngest son , art dealer Pierre Matisse . |
| 3 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 4 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 5 | Their interest has been titillated by occasional manuscripts said to come from Ivan the Terrible 's library , which have periodically come to light in Moscow . |