Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in the light [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ They will try to shoot us in the light from the door . ’ |
4 | However absurd these may seem in some respects , we have to read them in the light of the knowledge then available . |
5 | And then , horizontally down the spine , so that he had to turn it round to read it in the light of a street lamp . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | But we are going to review it in the light of the criticism . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The proper case is one where the administrator reasonably requires to see the documents to carry out his functions and the production does not impose an unnecessary and unreasonable burden on the person required to produce them in the light of the administrator 's requirements . |