Example sentences of "[adj] come to light " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations . |
| 2 | This came to light on Aug. 7 after the collapse of a fourth round of negotiations on exchange rates between the East German Economics Minister Gerhard Pohl and the then Czechoslovak Foreign Trade Minister Slavomir Stracar . |
| 3 | What is is this come to light after the event as it were or did you know that was there when we were redoing the machine ? |
| 4 | The doctor said the body could be taken away , and when the mortuary men were lifting it , something very odd came to light — the pockets were stuffed with live rifle bullets . |
| 5 | Alcohol misuse is more likely to come to light via marital disputes , repeated driving offences , accidents , absenteeism and progressive inability to cope at work . |
| 6 | A substantial portion of the ‘ Notenbuch ’ survives , though some of the leaves were detached ( probably after Mozart 's death ) : two of these came to light in 1954 and are now in The Pierpont Morgan Library . |
| 7 | These came to light when a couple brought the album in for valuation without knowing the artist 's identity . |
| 8 | It all came to light when I travelled from Bradford to London to take part in a television programme about multiculturalism . |
| 9 | Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) . |
| 10 | The scandal had first come to light in mid-January when officers of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) had uncovered 12 new T-72 battle tanks in crates on board a freight train at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk , concealed as part of a shipment of scrap metal intended for export . |
| 11 | As a result of her claims , another rape allegation , relating to the autumn of 1991 , involving a schoolgirl then aged 13 came to light , the jury was told . |
| 12 | Although the PCW affair first came to light nearly nine years ago it remains the single largest City controversy on record . |
| 13 | AIDS first came to light in the USA in 1981 when the Centers for Disease Control , which monitor health data from local health departments , noticed a marked increase in a number of unusual infections , particularly amongst gay men . |
| 14 | Message Queue Interface first came to light in IBM 's Network Blueprint announcements last year ( CI No 1,901 ) as one of a clutch of network interfaces supported within its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking architecture . |
| 15 | The allegations first came to light last November , following an approach to the board from a financial institution . |
| 16 | The Iraqi " supergun " affair , as it came to be known in the UK media , first came to light on April 10 when UK customs officials in Teesside detained a consignment of steel cylinders bound for Iraq . |
| 17 | The supergun first came to light two years ago at Tees Dock , Middlesbrough , where Customs agents seized a shipment of giant steel tubes destined for Iraq . |
| 18 | At present there are no plans for structural repairs to the church , where problems first came to light after a survey two years ago . |
| 19 | But the most compelling reassurance for townspeople should come from the firefighters themselves , some of whom were uneasy when the shake-up first came to light . |
| 20 | The problem first came to light when an ambulance was delayed attending an emergency at Harwood-in-Teesdale , just before Christmas . |
| 21 | The only question is whether they existed in 1072 in their original form or in the contaminated form which they had in 1120 , when their texts , as we know them , first come to light and are preserved in several copies . |
| 22 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |