Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the eye " in BNC.
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| 31 | These regions , tedious to the eye , were a continuous market garden with five crops every two years . |
| 32 | total and irrecoverable loss of all sight in one or both eyes rendering the Insured person absolutely blind in the eye or eyes beyond remedy by surgical or other treatment |
| 33 | She stared him full in the eye , as if seeking the truth in the way he looked at her , rather than in the words he spoke . |
| 34 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 35 | The Red Rose and the Rosa Mundi commonly grow from three to four feet high , but seldom exceed that ; but the Damask , Provence and Frankfurt Roses grow to the height of seven or eight feet , so that in planting them , great care should be taken to place their several kinds , according to their various growth , amongst other shrubs , that they may appear beautiful to the eye . |
| 36 | Both in far more pleasant to the eye |
| 37 | Distance , says Berkeley , must be perceived by the mediation of something else for , ‘ being a line directed end-wise to the eye ’ , it is not perceived ‘ of itself ’ . |
| 38 | Visually it is less tiring for the eye to follow a smooth than a serrated or intermittent line . |
| 39 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 40 | Evidence pertaining to this question is available from the eye movement research described briefly above . |
| 41 | Just want to know what is beautiful ? , its only in the eye of the beholder , every body sees something different . |
| 42 | It is of course very difficult for the eye to register detail when it is not trained to look for it ; it is only when true students of the Gothic , like the elder Pugin , begin to distinguish the styles of different periods , that the buildings of the past really come into focus in the novel . |
| 43 | Probably for that reason as much as any other , the Manchu appearance seemed impossibly alien to the eye . |
| 44 | The most important components of the human eye are a lens and a retina , the latter acting like a screen on which images of objects external to the eye are formed . |
| 45 | The Cruz Twinkick concave [ as it 's known ] is a complex concave , and it 's not just ‘ concave ’ in profile , a very slight rise running through the length of the deck is invisible to the eye but you can feel a more comfortable footlock when you stand on it . |
| 46 | But this alone will not purify your water of waste products that are invisible to the eye . |
| 47 | The imprint is invisible to the eye , but it is shown clearly using the Kirlian technique . |
| 48 | Invisible to the eye , these rays can be picked up by sensitive custom-built detectors . |
| 49 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 50 | Also there was no other way to express her sense of something having arrived from somewhere else , something normally invisible to the eye choosing to put on a human form . |
| 51 | They were close to the eye of the storm . |
| 52 | When visually investigating objects for details , the visually impaired child as a rule ‘ peers close ’ , that is , brings the object close to the eye , or the eye close to the object . |
| 53 | She levered herself away from him with a hand on his chest and looked him dead in the eye . |
| 54 | Seen from the outside , the Abbey is in Emma 's eyes : ‘ a sweet view — sweet to the eye and the mind , English verdure , English culture , English comfort . ’ |
| 55 | Pupils with defective sight are especially in need of the opportunity to look at objects at close range , holding them near to the eye and having time to gaze . |
| 56 | Holland was an unbleached linen with a glazed surface and , though slightly less attractive to the eye than bleached linen , had the same properties , with the addition of being water-resistant , an important matter to be taken into account when dead bodies were concerned . |
| 57 | While unusual and exotic shapes may prove attractive to the eye , are they going to be suitable to house a successful marine micro-environment ? |
| 58 | ‘ Although the calcinating plant has been in operation for some years now , it is the most modern of its type in the industry , ’ commented senior mill manager Graham Jones , ‘ and while it may not be attractive to the eye , it does produce beautiful materials . ’ |
| 59 | His wife , much as she might boast of the intellect of her pick-ups , could n't pretend they were pleasing to the eye . |
| 60 | The knack of outline planting is to arrange a selection of these shapes in groups that are pleasing to the eye . |