Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I have already made clear my preference for the breakaway top eye float , there are times when the simpler tube type drifter works better . |
| 2 | I do n't stick to one particular brand but I would never be without my face powder and I usually go for the heavy Sixties-style eye make-up — lots of black kohl pencil and mascara . |
| 3 | As Forster helped Delaney to the ladder he was unaware of the huge distorted eye watching him . |
| 4 | She had the start of a fine black eye , and her face was scratched and swelling . |
| 5 | At 2am this terrible object loomed in the doorway , soaking wet and stone-cold sober , with the beginnings of a beautiful black eye . |
| 6 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
| 7 | Britain will be able to approach the European Community , and the critical period of our own presidency later this year , with determination to defend British interests and turn back the follies of the Euro-federalists , without the need for a constant backward eye upon political threats and divisions at home . |
| 8 | This is situated between the eyes , and in fish , amphibians , reptiles and birds it lies just below the skin , acting as a rudimentary third eye . |
| 9 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 10 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 11 | Mortimer Cropper 's graduate students were made to transcribe passages — usually from Randolph Henry Ash — transcribe again their own transcriptions , type them up , and then scan them for errors with a severe editorial eye . |
| 12 | But in the final instance , these short-run goals are pursued with a green glinted eye focused on long-run profitability . |
| 13 | To give a second example , pied flycatchers which have never seen a shrike will mob a model shrike ; the mobbing is best elicited , or ‘ released ’ , by a model of the right size and orientation , with a horizontal black eye stripe on the appropriate background colour . |
| 14 | Anneliese was admiring the cut and style with a practised European eye for fashion . |
| 15 | But when we realize that the eye is most probably Bleistein 's , we realize that it represents a degeneration from the expected human eye . |
| 16 | The train drew in to Penn Station with the arguments still raging round Uncle Mick 's grizzled head , but that head was still unbowed and at one time Denis was sure he saw a wink in the wicked old eye as he took on about three arguments at once and lost all of them . |
| 17 | or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame |
| 18 | Mutations in several Pax genes lead to severe developmental abnormalities : ( 1 ) a mutation in the paired box of murine Pax-1 leads to the undulated phenotype which exhibits distortions of the vertebral column ; ( 2 ) a mutation in the Pax-6 gene leads to the semidominant Small eye phenotype in mouse and a mutation in the putative human homologue of this gene may be responsible for the aniridia disorder ; ( 3 ) mutations in the putative human homologue to Pax-3 ( HuP2 ) occasionally lead to hearing loss associated with Waardenburg 's syndrome , whereas in mouse a deletion in Pax-3 causes the splotch phenotype which is associated with spina bifida , exencephaly , a tail flexion defect and deficiencies in neural crest cell derivatives . |
| 19 | The Class 40 , dressed in a never-never livery of rail blue with all yellow cabs , large BR logo and carrying a might-have-been number 40 445 , was facing south — held stationary by the unblinking red eye of a four-aspect colour light signal , newly erected at the Manchester end of Platform Three . |