Example sentences of "be [verb] in the light " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assurance had been given in the light of US reports on July 24 claiming that Iraq had advanced two armoured divisions totalling about 30,000 soldiers towards the Kuwaiti border . |
| 2 | The figures for 1988 entry have been revised in the light of experience , especially for the small number of fields for which demand is strong , such as accounting & finance , computer studies and law . |
| 3 | ‘ Our biggest problem with A-levels is that they have not been modified in the light of the GCSE , ’ says Brian Howseman , principal of Luton Sixth Form College . |
| 4 | Adjustments are considered in the light of experience of the immediately preceding cycle . |
| 5 | The reorganization of the former Interior Ministry into the new Public Order Ministry and a National Security Committee had been decided in the light of preliminary findings by a parliamentary commission . |
| 6 | I am writing in the light of a meeting with ScotRail on 3 November , which was attended by Stuart Smith from the LDU , and a subsequent telephone conversation between Brian Sharkie and yourself . |
| 7 | A master of spontaneous oratory , Asimov could hold forth on almost any subject with brilliant lucidity — as in his much-cited off-the-cuff description of how human life depends on the Sun : ‘ All of us are living in the light and warmth of a huge hydrogen bomb , 860,000 miles across and 93 million miles away , which is in a state of continuous explosion . ’ |
| 8 | But , as mentioned above , some changes have been made in the light of comments received on the discussion paper . |
| 9 | In the second appeal the committee said that the decision had been made in the light of the admission criteria and that they felt ‘ unable ’ to override section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 10 | If you 're living in the light you wo n't stumble . |
| 11 | Two pairs of concepts have been elaborated in the light of empirical work conducted in actual curricular settings . |
| 12 | All procedures for objective setting , planning , time keeping or whatever are agreed in the light of the task to be done and the situation . |
| 13 | Her hero could have been transfixed in the light from the Trinity , she thought , but it was cold light , cold , cold light . |
| 14 | However , the vehement opposition to prison building by penal reform groups appears to have been vindicated in the light of a worsening of overcrowding and the further deterioration of regimes . |
| 15 | However , some IQ data for this group of subjects are available , and when these are re-examined in the light of revised population IQ norms a similar reduction in mean IQ is observed to that seen in early treated subjects . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman I 'll try and be as brief as brief as possible the economic development strategy programme for nineteen ninety four , ninety five has been reduced in the light of the review of the activity concerned with the prosperity and consultation and with widely increased organisations and public agencies . |
| 17 | The examples given suggest a flexible scheme whereby criterion statements might be amended in the light of pupils ' difficulties and the identified difficulty factors might provide foci for teaching . |
| 18 | Specific forms for community care referrals , assessment and care planning are now out in draft and will be amended in the light of comments and ‘ trial runs ’ . |
| 19 | Our response to the Commission 's paper will be formulated in the light of that detailed consultation . |
| 20 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 21 | The effect of such changes is to concentrate the emission from such industries , per unit area , and as Dr. B. Leadbeater , a leading chemist in the field of odour pollution explained the effect of the amount of emission can be examined in the light of atmospheric dispersion theory in which the downwind concentration is a direct function of the emission rate . |
| 22 | The outcome of the projects was to be examined in the light of potential impacts on urban development , transport road safety and the environment . |
| 23 | The ‘ fatal ’ choices offered to parents and teachers at every stage of the child 's schooling can thus be examined in the light of development , not as part of a race against failure . |
| 24 | The emotional and political stability afforded to Nizan by his entry to the PCF in 1927 needs to be examined in the light of other factors influencing his personal development at this time . |
| 25 | These will be examined in the light of general anthropological theory and particular ethnographic studies of Andalusian culture and society . |
| 26 | Eurotunnel co-chairman Alastair Morton admitted that the company was in technical breach of its main credit agreement but argued that the cost overruns could be justified in the light of improving traffic and revenue forecasts . |
| 27 | A fortiori , the requirement for all owners to reside and be domiciled in the United Kingdom can not be justified in the light of the aims of the quota system . |
| 28 | No analyst would make such a claim today , and the ‘ nationalization ’ thesis has had to be revised in the light of increased local variations in voting behaviour . |
| 29 | The Directive had to be revised in the light of major reservations commentators expressed during a previous consultation period early in 1991 . |
| 30 | This conclusion has important implications for the management of affected subjects , and guidelines on treatment need to be revised in the light of these recent findings . |