Example sentences of "in [art] light [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll say if I knew any Swahili , I was very tempted to s I would would have been very tempted to use it , in the lights of the er , the dictionary . |
| 2 | You know , what a novelty it was , and the difference in the light between the old single gas lighter and the incandescent lighter . |
| 3 | She rose quickly and lit the candles , all six of them which was wasteful , but she needed to be in the light for the shadows in the corners frightened her . |
| 4 | The principle took on particular importance in the light of the development of totalitarian communism , and the Roman church saw the threat to be endemic in the growth of the modern state apparatus , including its welfare institutions . |
| 5 | Monstrous in this small room , though in the light of the day it reverts to its ordinary size , two biggish panels of glass , steel frame and stand , 227.5 x 175.8 cm. |
| 6 | Why it is the colour of the moon and made in the light of the moon . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 8 | Perhaps in the light of the somewhat narrow academic bias outlined by this cream of police studentship , it is just as well the college was not allocated the task of collating and circulating research to chief officers ! |
| 9 | His tone is one of sadness , of a great day now passed , of his uncles ' and cousins ' deep sense of loss — which he shared — of the death of his father ( again ) , and of the disenchantment with their present , pedestrian lives in the light of the splendid triumphs of the past . |
| 10 | As already mentioned , many plans had to be changed in the light of the recession and these included reduction of the number of Cross Country HSTs . |
| 11 | This is what Eliot means by insisting : ‘ It is necessary to consider Pound 's literary pronouncements in the light of the circumstances in which they were written … ’ |
| 12 | A quarter of a century later , the conventional wisdom of British mandarins looks complacent , self-serving , ill-informed , and outmoded — especially in the light of the many serious breaches by the United Kingdom of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 13 | Performers are five recent graduates of Bristol University , who felt revolutions were topical in the light of the bicentennial of the French Revolution and events in China . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | These are paradoxical results in the light of the substantial cost increases . |
| 16 | This becomes even more so when deviance is regarded in the light of the pre-Freudian , pre-sexological histories of perversion . |
| 17 | Finally , it assesses the impact of party government in Britain in the light of the Thatcher record . |
| 18 | Such an explanation , quite apart from being completely wrong , is extraordinary in the light of the fact that both Marx and Engels warn throughout their work that biological models are inappropriate to human societies . |
| 19 | This section deals with an examination of their views of early political evolution , principally in the light of the theory in The Origin , but also in their other writings . |
| 20 | The proscription is , of course , a legal convention which we would normally take for granted , but is , in this context , inconsistent with the SI anti-copyright policy and , in the light of the Lautréamont axiom : ‘ Plagiarism is necessary — progress implies it , ’ which Francis cites on page 19 , is an unintended irony . |
| 21 | Campaigners for the Birmingham Six had hoped that a new Home Secretary might reconsider the convictions in the light of the discovery that the confessions of those convicted of the Guildford pub bombings had been fabricated , and the subsequent release of the four . |
| 22 | The question of whether the convictions were safe , and the need for a review to allay public anxiety in the light of the Guildford findings , is raised in a statement by the joint presidents of the Birmingham Council of Christian Churches : the Most Reverend Maurice Couve de Murville , Archbishop of Birmingham ; the Right Reverend Mark Santer , Bishop of Birmingham ; and the Reverend David Good , representing the Birmingham Free Churches . |
| 23 | And in the light of the recent Beverley Lewis tragedy , Adrienne Baker puts the case for self-help groups to relieve the isolation and enormous pressure felt by the mothers of handicapped children A special kind of need |
| 24 | The difference was more apparent than real , a question of ‘ words ’ in which ‘ all the details are important ’ in a new ‘ information environment ’ — meaning his words ought to be read in the light of the special status of the Communist Party organ , Pravda , and of glasnost . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher 's call for a ‘ level playing field ’ was found ‘ somewhat ironic ’ by other delegations , in the light of the domestic row the sale caused . |
| 26 | But we are going to review it in the light of the criticism . ’ |
| 27 | In the light of the defendants ' knowledge of her state of health it was reasonably foreseeable that that would happen if they were negligent and did not obtain a satisfactory resolution of her affairs . |
| 28 | I can understand the caution in the light of the Hillsborough disaster , but the charges per officer are outrageous . ’ |
| 29 | But in the light of the collapse of the Berlin Wall , which occurred after this book was completed and sent to my publishers , we have changed its title to Britain 's Defence Dilemma : An |
| 30 | Moreover , in the light of the Americans ' deep-seated anti-colonialism , neutrality was the most that could be hoped for in the problems that would face Britain in converting her Empire into the Commonwealth at a prudent and realistic pace . |