Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] eye " in BNC.

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1 My friend , who 's a very economical shopper with a keen eye for a bargain , was doing a bit of shopping at her local market .
2 The third concert , of Brahms 's Third and First symphonies , revealed the new Karajan at his most lovable , for these were natural , emotional , and — let the word escape at last — profound interpretations : voyages of discovery ; loving traversals of familiar , exciting ground with a fresh eye and mind , in the company of someone prepared to linger here , to exclaim there ; summations towards which many of his earlier , less intimate performances of the works had led .
3 However , when an electron changes from one allowed orbit to another one nearer to the nucleus , energy is released and a real photon is emitted — which can be observed as visible light by the human eye , if it has the right wavelength , or by a photon detector such as photographic film .
4 It has a fearful chip above the right eye but it can stand a few chips .
5 The prototype for such a situation is the input to the nervous system behind a human eye .
6 The cheery chappie with a quizzical eye behind the white beard and red cowl is a familiar face around the company .
7 Then mounted on top of the cab another light came on , a powerful beam like a great eye glaring at them .
8 The full damage report revealed a deep gash over the left eye , a broken nose , and fractured sternum , ribs and right foot .
9 There was a slight cast in the right eye , so that his glance was disturbing and oblique .
10 Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there .
11 Now Walter Chrysler was an important collector with a marvellous eye who bought some wonderful things .
12 Meanwhile , there are those who will cling to the cock-eyed view that the glorious uncertainty of the human eye in these matters is good enough .
13 X is defined as something very like a human eye , sufficiently similar that the human eye could plausibly have arisen by a single alteration in X. If you have a mental picture of X and you find it implausible that the human eye could have arisen directly from it , this simply means that you have chosen the wrong K. Make your mental picture of X progressively more like a human eye , until you find an K that you do find plausible as an immediate predecessor to the human eye .
14 A children 's ophthalmic surgeon , David Calver , performed a two-hour operation on the right eye of the younger girl , Sara Shadoo , who lives in London .
15 This pattern of results suggests that no uncrossed pathway from the left eye to the damaged left side of the brain is functional to elicit fixation shifts .
16 His strong and aggressive displays were a feature of Palace 's progress back to Division Two , but his playing career was brought to a premature end by a troublesome eye complaint and his final match with us was the 6th round FA Cup-tie against Leeds ( 0–3 ) on 10 March 1965 .
17 And then there are the tougher types : Edmund from King Lear , a romantic macho figure with a wide eye for fame and fortune .
18 Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki .
19 Go through your whole list with a critical eye .
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