Example sentences of "come to light " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to come to light two years later when the Football Association appointed a commission to inquire into allegations that Sir Henry had offered financial inducements above the legal fees to attract players to Highbury and that he had diverted club funds to his private account . |
| 2 | Of course , the deception was bound to come to light sooner or later . |
| 3 | Alcohol misuse is more likely to come to light via marital disputes , repeated driving offences , accidents , absenteeism and progressive inability to cope at work . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , no document survives — or , at any rate , has been allowed to come to light — which indicates that the Celtic Church might have differed significantly from Rome in its attitude towards Jesus . |
| 5 | The proclamation may not have had the effect which was desired for the next lease to come to light is 17 years later , between Sir John Pennington bart. , and Thomas Gorsuch of London , described as a goldsmith . |
| 6 | And for the chairman of the bank to be showing particular interest in him might alert people who , if the truth is ever to come to light , ought not to be alerted . " |
| 7 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 8 | They have warned that similar cases , involving pesticides as well as other toxic chemicals , are bound to come to light in the future , the legacy of inadequate waste-disposal standards in force for many years . |
| 9 | Since the Japanese and Taiwanese refused to supply any data on the albacore drift-net fishery , it was hardly surprising that no information on incidental dolphin catches had come to light . |
| 10 | Historians recently decided to lower the estimated number of Auschwitz victims , from 4m — a figure chosen by Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp in 1945 — to between 1m and 2m , an estimate based on transport documents which have only recently come to light . |
| 11 | The case of the ‘ pinocheques ’ is not the only case of apparent corruption that has come to light since the general left power , though it is the one that may touch him directly . |
| 12 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 13 | EXACTLY 200 years after the birth of Shelley , a secret diary kept by the poet has come to light in a Dorset attic . |
| 14 | To my knowledge , no new facts have come to light since the original decision . ’ |
| 15 | A RARE insight into the kindly nature of novelist Thomas Hardy has come to light , thanks to the efforts of a retired Dorset schoolmaster . |
| 16 | Once they 've joined in the Pirates Club , you 'll be lucky to see them at all , as they go through their paces for the junior cabaret ( where a lot of hidden young talent come to light ) , or as they enjoy the treasure hunts and fancy dress parties . |
| 17 | In fact , since the TV programme , more leukaemia cases have come to light in the area . |
| 18 | It is Alan Usher 's contention that if this evidence had come to light before the trial , a third opinion could have been obtained from a specialist paediatric pathologist . |
| 19 | And other mechanisms have come to light , such as cell fusion among bacilli and an enigmatic gene transfer agent in some photosynthetic bacteria . |
| 20 | I do n't know if we once had more — no care was taken of them , I 'm sorry to say — none has come to light . ’ |
| 21 | No report of the treatment appears to have been published at the time , but evidence has come to light that he did indeed treat at least one patient , a young nurse with a persistent abscess resulting from injuries received in a street accident . |
| 22 | This ability of DNA to cut and splice , to jump in and out of chromosomes at the drop of a hat , is one of the more exciting facts that have come to light since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 23 | The supposition that Theunis — or maybe his father — invented the name Krankoor shortly before emigrating comes from the fact that no surviving Krankoors , nor records of such a family , have come to light in Holland ; two Crankos live in The Hague but they are recent arrivals from South Africa . |
| 24 | If this fails to hold the situation then review the case and see if there have been any changes or new information come to light that would enable you to select a more similar remedy which could carry on the work of the first remedy . |
| 25 | As waste dumps all over Europe are frantically dug up in the search , other interesting things have come to light . |
| 26 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 27 | The matter had come to light when the consignees in New York reported to London that the diamonds were overdue . |
| 28 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 29 | These jurors claim new evidence has come to light . |
| 30 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |