Example sentences of "[art] eye [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eyes of ordinary folk , the crusade was a holy war for the sake of war . |
| 2 | This tension may have caused its failure in the eyes of contemporary readers , but it is also the sign of a change which was taking place in Brooke-Rose 's attitude toward fiction . |
| 3 | By far the most controversial view comes from County NatWest which thinks that ‘ confusion will arise , particularly in the eyes of uninformed investors ’ , due to the ‘ plethora of different performance numbers ’ that will emerge for each company . |
| 4 | An assertion is not defamatory simply because it is untrue — it must lower the victim in the eyes of right-thinking citizens . |
| 5 | Tyrion and the Everqueen often hid , blindly writhing through the loam to avoid the eyes of Dark Elf patrols . |
| 6 | While the study of the language is critical to the development of BSL and its acceptance , it is also true to say that there is a more pressing problem in relation to BSL , at least in the eyes of deaf people , and that is how to learn and use it . |
| 7 | In the eyes of higher headquarters , L Detachment was so small that it was simply expendable . |
| 8 | The train was running in the open now , the blackness beyond its windows relieved by distant amber lights which seemed to track their progress like the eyes of forest-dwelling creatures fixed on a lonely wayfarer . |
| 9 | Yet in the 1930s the Soviet experiment , in the eyes of Western intellectuals , had a monopoly on health , vitality , youth and hope for the future . |
| 10 | For most of 1972 and early 1973 , the eyes of political observers were focused as much on London as on Ulster . |
| 11 | They bring respectability to industry in the eyes of young people and allow them to see that work can be rewarding , interesting and challenging . |
| 12 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 13 | In the eyes of Scots fans everywhere , he needed a good doing over and if Tiger McKay was too old to give him , one then there was always Wild Bill Bremner . |
| 14 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 15 | In the eyes of good practitioners self-control allows them to find a path around conflict . |
| 16 | Authoritative mother , gracious mistress of this house , she rose , gathering the eyes of non-existent guests ( for she would not look near Dada or Aunt Tossie ) , indicating that luncheon was over and coffee would be in the drawing room . |
| 17 | It is not an overstatement to maintain , therefore , that throughout 1936 the struggle in Spain came to symbolise in Nizan 's eyes , as in the eyes of countless intellectuals of the period , the ultimate stand against fascism . |
| 18 | He was the justification for the war , particularly in the eyes of neighbouring princes whose intervention might have been decisive but who were understandably not that involved in the quarrel over the succession to Angoulême . |
| 19 | He was , along with ( Sir ) Charles Arden-Clarke and Edward ( later Baron ) Twining [ qq.v. ] , one of the ‘ young guard ’ of governors , carefully picked by the Colonial Office to replace an older generation like Arthur Richards ( first Baron Milverton ) and Sir Philip Mitchell [ qq.v. ] who , in the eyes of such architects of decolonization as ( Sir ) Andrew Cohen [ q.v. ] and his master , Arthur Creech Jones [ q.v. ] , were too rooted in pre-war attitudes to adapt enthusiastically to the new spirit of social engineering and transfer of power . |
| 20 | In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things . |
| 21 | The industrial relations problems of the docks in the 1950s and 1960s could , in the eyes of many commentators , be ascribed to the institution of casual working and the ( ultimately successful ) attempts by the trade unions to replace it with a system of regular employment for dock labourers ( see Wilson , 1972 ) . |
| 22 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |
| 23 | To admit that even some aspects of linguistic analysis have political implications is , in the eyes of many professionals , to undermine the status of linguistics as a science . |
| 24 | Were there not so much at stake , in the eyes of many Europeans , the American government would warrant disqualification from the talks for not trying . |
| 25 | At the very least this might call into question the legitimacy of the proceedings , not least in the eyes of many defendants . |
| 26 | A telling sign of misplaced priorities , in the eyes of many critics , is the EPA 's concentration on health . |
| 27 | In the eyes of many yeomen and labourers , the principles of either side were far less important than their economic menace . |
| 28 | The recent decline in the fortunes of the UK Green Party was epitomized in the eyes of many observers by the deep divisions which emerged at its annual conference , held in Wolverhampton in mid-September , where organizational reforms approved last year were overturned . |
| 29 | In the past five years , in the eyes of many voters , the glittering promises of the Thatcher years have crumbled into ashes . |
| 30 | This strength , however , is linked to a crucial failing in the eyes of many sociologists . |