Example sentences of "[art] eye for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in the eye for progressive educationalists , after a hard battle ? |
| 2 | The knowledge obtained from solutions that are put into the eye for other purposes is considerably valuable . |
| 3 | If it catches on it will certainly be one in the eye for greedy undertakers — after all , you never see a poor one , do you ? ’ |
| 4 | With an eye for contemporary styling Verity Lambert agreed that Susan Foreman should have specially-cut hair , radically different from the back-combed , upswept or pony-tail styles of her early Sixties class mates . |
| 5 | And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention . |
| 6 | ‘ He was one who had an eye for such mysteries ? ’ |
| 7 | It was a good room , she decided , severe , yet opulent She already had an eye for such things . |
| 8 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 9 | Confidence men always have an eye for extra exits . |
| 10 | I have waited hours here , usually on the north side , until called forward to the ferry boat and never regretted the delay ; anyone with an eye for impressive beauty will not regard time spent at Kylesku as wasted . |
| 11 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 12 | Physical ferocity and an eye for human responses — the latter fostered by my mother — did the rest . |
| 13 | The magnificence of the houses the merchants built for themselves show that they had an eye for artistic effect as well as financial security . |
| 14 | Aesthetically , Londoners will have to draw what consolation they can from the fact that Nicholas Ridley , the former Environment Secretary and a water-colourist with an eye for broader horizons , had some influence in the siting of the gates . |