Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally a page should look evenly grey , so that the eye glides over it with as little distraction from the writing as possible . |
| 2 | Where the material to be used in enquiry work is audio-visual ( as for instance a filmstrip , perhaps with the accompanying booklet transcribed on to audio-cassette so that the eye can concentrate on the pictures and the slower readers have quick access to the text ) then of course suitable equipment must be available in sufficient quantity for the expected numbers of students at any one time . |
| 3 | The painting is awkwardly and laxly structured but now the contours of many of the compositional elements have been freely and insistently opened up into each other so that the eye is led quickly not only into depth but also steeply up the picture surface , a premonition of things to come . |
| 4 | These are continued upwards almost to the top of the canvas so that the eye is allowed no escape beyond them . |
| 5 | Percents and means for an ordered categorical explanatory variable should be connected between categories so that the eye can judge differences between adjacent pairs of categories ( figure 2 ) . |
| 6 | Long column headings must be abbreviated or made multi-line so that the eye travel for lateral comparisons is not excessive and to avoid the need to present a table side-on . |
| 7 | If bright lights cause significant pain , especially if the eye is red mainly around the iris or the pupil is irregular and does not react normally to changes of light . |
| 8 | Yet , perhaps because the eye and elbow joint develop in the same kind of way as our own eyes and elbows develop , a building process for which we , inside our mothers , claim no credit , we are illogically more impressed by the house . |
| 9 | It does so when the eye catches the castle of Rapperswil towards the end of the lake on the eastern shore . |
| 10 | You must have noticed things out of the corner of your eye every day of your life — this is very similar , and the ability vanishes as soon as the eye focuses on one object . |
| 11 | Seen at a great distance off , further than the eye can see . |
| 12 | Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see . |
| 13 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 14 | There were green fields as far as the eye could see . |
| 15 | On either side as far as the eye could see , long lines of children , dwarfed by the adults stooped over the restless machinery , reached or crawled , snatched or darted , in and out of the network of rattling belts and hissing pipes , playing a constant game with death . |
| 16 | An excursion to the top of the high alpine road of Gross Glockner will leave you breathless at the fantastic views stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction . |
| 17 | As far as the eye could see , the water was a dirty mud colour . |
| 18 | Magnificent Karnak , with its corridors of stone rams , sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues , stretching apparently as far as the eye can see , is breathtaking . |
| 19 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 20 | The larger mire , Thorne Waste , approached by surmounting the incongruous dereliction of Moor Ends Colliery , stretches out as far as the eye can see , an astonishing 6,000 acres of untamed wetland . |
| 21 | The plain stretched north and south as far as the eye could see and there was no sign of either vegetation or habitation — nothing but dust , rock and sand . |
| 22 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 23 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 24 | My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see , work out the route mentally , then , leaving the wheelbarrow , test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet . |
| 25 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 26 | I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see . |
| 27 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 28 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 29 | … imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak , as far as the eye could reach , and paid out until it touched the ‘ high places ’ of the earth at a number of ridges , banks , and knowls . |
| 30 | As far as the eye could see the earth was brown : there were white pockets of unmelted snow , and sombre green pine thickets on the ridges , but no leaves on the deciduous trees and no bright green shoots in the withered remains of last year 's grass . |