Example sentences of "an eye [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have experience in management , coaching , administration and I have an eye for a good player . ’ |
| 2 | An eye for a good outfit is something that both the Minogue girls share . |
| 3 | He became a household name after his role as the caddish Ralph Gorse in The Charmer — and even in those Lloyds Bank ads , he plays a smoothie with an eye for a pretty girl . |
| 4 | ‘ I could be quite wrong here , but amongst the French soldiers likely to attend the opera is one of exalted rank , married to an ageing but unfaithful wife , and with an eye for a pretty woman … ’ |
| 5 | Those with an eye for a lucrative deal raced to convert every spare inch of space — from barns and warehouses to derelict docksides — into fashionable homes . |
| 6 | As a former building contractor , he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar . |
| 7 | They also have an eye for a catchy phrase . |
| 8 | Tottenham chief executive Terry Venables has arranged for Lazio to return in November , and Alan Sugar , chairman of Tottenham Hotspur plc , said : ‘ Those with an eye for a popular event will immediately recognise the potential of these fixtures . |
| 9 | She is intelligent , sensitive , and has an eye for an elegant fabric . |
| 10 | She had an eye for the clean lines of a good design , did n't she ? |
| 11 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 12 | But an eye for the main chance and a shrewd business brain have also pushed him along . |
| 13 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ People who always have an eye for the main chance ! |
| 15 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 16 | It 's not satire exactly , since Hayworth has too kindly an eye for the human condition . |
| 17 | They conclude : ‘ We therefore approach the passive with an eye to a bold simplification of the problems of meaning . |
| 18 | However , with an eye to the other organisations , the sound of pedals being rotated backwards has been deafening . |
| 19 | From this again , if we read with an eye to the preceding context , we can draw further conclusions of a social nature . |
| 20 | You have , by nature , a great deal of common sense , and should life become unexpectedly eventful of confusing , the important thing is to meet things head on with Capricornian determination , and always with an eye to the long-term future . |
| 21 | I acknowledge that we must have an eye to the international experience , and our work internationally is to try to ensure that other countries , too , put up their premiums in a way that sensibly recognises the problems of such cover throughout the world . |
| 22 | Within Japanese organization practices , work in the internal labour market seems to be designed with an eye to the collective worker rather than in opposition to the collective worker . |
| 23 | The shortness of the supporting bracket was dictated partly by aesthetics , partly by safety and partly with an eye to the future construction of a reserved track on the seaward side of the traction poles . |
| 24 | This able and likeable man was admirably adaptable to circumstances and had something of an eye to the main chance . |
| 25 | A fish with an eye to the main chance . |
| 26 | Certainly , there remain some domains of research which are disinterested , but the incentive to have an eye to the main chance grows . |
| 27 | All of these specialists must be chosen with care and with an eye to the particular skills required . |
| 28 | Similarly , David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan referred to using headhunters when he had an eye on a specific person within another company : a headhunter could discreetly and confidentially find out if that person might consider moving , before the name of the interested party , i.e. Grand Metropolitan , need be revealed . |
| 29 | But it 's important we keep other An eye on the other things , keep other things ticking over and things like the hormone cream and the lithium will be a help in that . |
| 30 | I felt incredibly well , but he said to keep an eye on the swollen gland and to see him immediately if it grew in size . |