Example sentences of "of light from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hurricane lamp and a pinpoint of light from a torch were all the girls had to guide them across the sleepers and rails . |
| 2 | A paraboloid can be used therefore as a mirror in telescopes to focus a maximum of light from a distant star or galaxy at a viewing point that can be some ten metres or more above the mirror . |
| 3 | Rays of light from a viewed object pass from the object to the lens via the intervening medium . |
| 4 | His method shows how one can explain many physical phenomena , including the speed of sound in air and the colour of light from a glowing furnace . |
| 5 | There were still more books and box-files and stacks of paper piled high on the tables that filled the room , leaving one narrow alleyway leading to the desk where , in a small pool of light from a green-shaded table-lamp , Mr Hardiman sat enthroned . |
| 6 | This is analogous to the optical case of light from a source immersed in a liquid beamed at the surface and is thus capable of giving rise to similar critical " internal reflection " conditions . |
| 7 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 8 | Luminescence is the emission of light from a solid which is ‘ excited ’ by some form of energy . |
| 9 | During rotation the cell passes through a collimated beam of light from a high pressure mercury lamp and the emergent beam then travels through the optical system to be recorded photographically . |
| 10 | For a frozen second she was back in reality , just a second , before the core of power erupted within her , spraying up molten gobbets of light from every pore of her body , from the base of her spine to the centre of her mind . |
| 11 | ‘ Plunged into semi-darkness , I perceived , lit by a slim ray of light from an invisible sun … the compact disc player … sublime in its performance , it stood before us , seekers after perfection gathered together in a common quest for the absolute ’ . |
| 12 | The mass of that galaxy bends the rays of light from the quasar as relativity says it must , to produce these mirages . |
| 13 | Some faint glow of light from the direction of the town below caught the angle of a new padlock , the gate being chained as well as shut . |
| 14 | All at once there was a shaft of light from the doorway . |
| 15 | Broke syllables of light from the moorstone ’ . |
| 16 | Two golden shafts of light from the yard lamp crossed their bodies and he could see that they were lying on a mixture of old sacks and loose hay . |
| 17 | ASTRONOMERS in Australia have detected flashes of light from the fastest-rotating star , the ‘ millisecond pulsar ’ discovered by radio astronomers last November ( New Scientist , vol 96 , p 362 ) . |
| 18 | Within a few paces the loom of the Tower was lost and the glint of light from the arrow-slit disappeared behind the curtains of rain . |
| 19 | He was half-Arab , with a pale olive skin that now gleamed golden in the thin ribbons of light from the half-closed shutters . |
| 20 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 21 | It is from a fissure in the anthill that the rays of light from the jewels in the Cobras ' heads shine forth , and coming in contact with the rainclouds , which represent the ‘ pure water of wisdom ’ , they form the rainbow . |
| 22 | Immediately , the feel of the scene changes : the pool of light from the extra lamp creates its own little centre of colour and interest , and the flatness of the top lighting is relieved . |
| 23 | Darkness outside the hut , and beyond that darkness the ring of light from the arc lamps over the fence and the wire . |
| 24 | Just before each Geiger counter click we see a flash of light from the illuminated electron . |
| 25 | To the left a group of barren islets , suggesting ruins of stone walls , towers and block houses , had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid , so still and stable did it lie below my feet ; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly , without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | The premises from which the prediction is derived will include the interconnected statements that constitute the theory under test , initial conditions such as previous positions of the planet and sun , auxiliary assumptions such as those enabling corrections to be made for refraction of light from the planet in the earth 's atmosphere , and so on . |
| 27 | There was a wide diversity of theories about the nature of light from the time of the ancients up to Newton . |
| 28 | The rays of light from the furthest stars |
| 29 | 8 If a beam of light from the lighthouse , shown on page 1 , turns through one revolution every 30 seconds , how many revolutions will it make in 4 minutes ? |
| 30 | She walked shakily to the bar through the coral and saffron reflections of light from the sign outside . |