Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in the light " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Palomar can be read as a series of representations of the world , attempted reproductions and descriptions of the out-there being constantly modified in the light of new experience and new information . |
| 2 | To take a rather obvious example , women 's liberation today is better understood in the light of its ambient social and economic circumstances than as the inevitable culmination of the nineteenth-century suffragette movement . |
| 3 | There is nothing in the present that can not be better understood in the light of its historical context and origins ; ii ) to arouse interest in the past . |
| 4 | In many cases accounts are held back until completion of an investigation but the position will recur year after year and would have to be constantly reviewed in the light of the current stage of the investigation . |
| 5 | She came to his side and stared along the alley at the two men who were standing unwarily outlined in the light of a held lantern . |
| 6 | That choice is best made in the light of the conditions that prevail at the time . |
| 7 | Theories can be conclusively falsified in the light of suitable evidence , whereas they can never be established as true or even probably true whatever the evidence . |
| 8 | Reasonableness is thus judged in the light of circumstances known and foreseeable at the time the contract was made . |
| 9 | Of these , the latter two were especially criticized for their poor records of arrest and/or inactivity ; records perhaps best viewed in the light of the legislation they sought to enforce , the complexity of the offences they where obliged to detect , and last , but by no means least , the limited resources , in terms of finance , manpower , and expertise , made available to them . |
| 10 | Mr Rusk replied that the inference that the United States had decided to abandon the Republic of Korea to its enemies was scarcely warranted in the light of the substantial material aid and political support which we had furnished and were furnishing to that Republic . |
| 11 | These issues of survival and quality of life have to be further considered in the light that all such patients in this series who did not receive a suitable donor organ died during their hospital admission . |
| 12 | This course would enable 5 Corps to be tactically disposed in the light of new policy , or ( b ) a proportion at least of the numbers should be returned to Italy and concentrated under the same arrangements that are being made for surrendered personnel of Army Group SW . |
| 13 | Guidance was first published in 1973 , and it has been periodically revised in the light of experience gained . |
| 14 | However , the Bill did not incorporate all of the safeguards against this possibility that were adumbrated in the White Paper , and it was substantially redrafted in the light of opposition objections in the course of its Parliamentary passage . |
| 15 | The actual existence of that civilization , the Vedic/Aryan , is now accepted in the light of the new archaeological revelations . |
| 16 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 17 | The level of precaution is regularly reviewed in the light of the patient 's progress . |
| 18 | Fourthly , it was pointed out sensibly in Littlewoods by both Lord Denning MR and Megaw LJ that a clause made " inter rusticos " ( ie without legal help on either side ) can be properly construed in the light of the way in which both parties thought it would be likely to be interpreted . |
| 19 | This model has now been virtually discarded in the light of more recent research which has revealed features incompatible with this picture . |
| 20 | This base-line figure is then modified in the light of the analyst 's detailed research to give growth forecasts over the next two years , say , g 1 and g 2 . |
| 21 | The samples are then evaluated in the light of the readers ' predictions . |
| 22 | Why is it not possible to suppose that the initial data from which we start to learn the language are less than solid , and that they stand to be revised , reassessed and maybe abandoned in the light of what happens later ? |
| 23 | Afterwards they drank coffee on the terrace , Antonio admiring the garden and pointing out to Susanna a cannonball tree , its cream- and pink-coloured blossoms softly illuminated in the light from a carefully concealed spotlight . |
| 24 | Finally there is a section devoted to Michelangelo 's architecture , again interpreted in the light of sculptural preoccupations . |
| 25 | The Shipman 's Tale not only is part of a larger text , it is most informatively read in the light of the details of that larger text . |
| 26 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
| 27 | Although Dicey 's theory played a major role in shaping the dominant tradition , his views are subsequently re-invented in the light of the requirements of this tradition . |
| 28 | Readability , as we have known it , may not be dead , but the utility of formulae must continue to be seriously questioned in the light of current research findings . |
| 29 | Muzzily outlined in the light was a wire , tied tightly between the banisters on either side . |