Example sentences of "[be] brought to light " in BNC.
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| 1 | This mistake having been brought to light , perhaps the recruit was also a secret bigamist , someone wisecracked , making yet more play out of the two Greek words which formed the terminology of the newcomer 's subject of study . |
| 2 | He asked his colleague if he would consider giving him some age-regression therapy in an attempt to deal with the problem , whatever it was , that had been brought to light . |
| 3 | Even so , Miller maintains that the clues to our abilities lie in our past , and can be brought to light by his System for Identifying Motivated Abilities . |
| 4 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 5 | Allegations of such activity were brought to light by Cathy Massiter , a retired MI5 official , and another unnamed former MI5 clerk . |
| 6 | Later , problems of the Arretine wares were brought to light when factories producing these wares well into the Claudian period were found in Central Gaul , and the terms ‘ provincial Arretine ’ or ‘ proto-South Gaulish ’ were invented . |
| 7 | Areas of contention were brought to light during the summit , however , notably Austria 's objections to the other countries ' reliance on nuclear power , and opposition by Italy to admitting other states ( specifically Poland ) to the group . |
| 8 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 9 | On Thursday , Hamel 's gifts were brought to light before a sadly sparse audience . |
| 10 | Now most of the overall plan of the original castle is being brought to light , including huge 11th century ditches and ramparts , and its monumental main gateway . |
| 11 | There was , too , the how-dun-it , the book in which it soon becomes evident who the murderer is but in which he or she can not be brought to satisfying justice unless some ingenious , proof-defying method used is brought to light . |
| 12 | The scepticism towards which , in Berkeley 's view , much seventeenth-century philosophy implicitly tended , is not unrelated to the traditional Greek scepticism which was brought to light in the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | This eternal idea was brought to light and exemplified concretely in Jesus , and through him it is also made known to us . |
| 14 | Pa-kua was brought to light a little more than 400 years ago by its alleged founder , Tung Hai Chuan . |
| 15 | South of the temple an attractive odeon , or concert-hall , was brought to light along the northern edge ofthe vast agora complex , which consisted of two long porticoes that have also been partly excavated and restored . |
| 16 | These include , the significance of the inaccuracy ; whether reasonable steps where taken by the data user to check the accuracy of information held and what procedures were followed by the data user once the inaccuracy was brought to light ( DPR Guideline 4 ) . |
| 17 | In fact , major documents on the Hotteterre family have not been found since the posthumous inventory of Nicolas Hotteterre which was brought to light by Marcelle Benoit in 1969 . |