Example sentences of "from the [adj] eye of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The act does not control what happens to cell cultures imported by companies operating on the fringe of the biotechnology industry — away from the watchful eyes of the HSE and GMAG . |
| 2 | Easily hidden from the not-too-enquiring eyes of the local magistrates who were supposed to inspect the mill , frightening cruelties were inflicted by overseers whose sadism went unchecked . |
| 3 | The fact that this revelation would doubtless be made in a context of privacy and confidentiality so as to insulate him as far as possible from the prying eyes of scandalmongers may not reduce his desire to put actual and legal distance between himself and his spouse . |
| 4 | Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal . |
| 5 | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue , black , silver , green and white had been designed to disguise a boat 's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains , so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas . |
| 6 | If you were a thrifty citizen and wanted a safe piggy-bank secure from the prying eyes of nasty parties such . |
| 7 | From the fixed eyes of girls , from their own |
| 8 | It would not need to thicken and curdle , and become dully opaque to defend its tender insides from the preying eyes of the world . |
| 9 | From the blank eye of winter 's malsain winds , |
| 10 | Despite the Party programme and frequent reiteration of the line , the record in practice seemed appalling — ranging from the Russian colonists , operating under the banners of Soviet power and universal freedom ; the arbitrary and cruel behaviour of raw troops operating in alien lands and in danger , far from the watching eyes of Moscow ; the role of former Tsarist officers whose instincts were for the patriotic defence of all the territories of the former empire , without concession to local nationalism ; to the contempt of the Bolshevik ultra-Left for all forms of nationalism . |
| 11 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 12 | As well as that , the laundry was a steamy , rather smelly place where sheets were stewed in the boiler and then hand-scrubbed on a ridged board and further rinsed and processed before they progressed in a wooden tub , a girl at each handle , to hang under the sun or the rain in their private drying ground , screened by laurel and flowering currant from the sensitive eyes of the gentry . |