Example sentences of "the eye " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 32 | It was proposed that there are endings ( or receptors ) within the nervous system which are attuned to specific types of energy , For example , retinal receptors in the eye respond to light energy , cochlear endings in the ear to vibrations in the air , and so on . |
| 33 | She followed the contours of his hairline to the almost kiss curl that hung over one of his eyes , the eye she could see now staring intelligently at a group of men — Englishmen like himself — discussing the prospects of the English team . |
| 34 | There was an added incentive this year for the students as it was their last opportunity to catch the eye of Sue Rich , captain and selector of the British Team for the World Student Games which take place later this year . |
| 35 | One in the eye for maple scientists |
| 36 | In another context , Picasso once turned a bicycle saddle and some handlebars into a bull 's head ; transformation through the eye of a genius ! |
| 37 | Designs composed of small masses of veneer forming a readable ‘ picture ’ , correspond roughly in looks , if not in colour , to subjects as they actually appear to the eye ; they seem to be in 3D even though they are flat , and to a degree they are naturalistic . |
| 38 | So we can put some limits on the project : the chairs must be upholstered ; modern in the simplicity of their lines but not ‘ Cubist ’ for want of a better term ; easy on the eye and bottom ; they should fit in with other existing furniture ; and naturally should be of strong construction so that they will be heirloom quality . |
| 39 | As the critic Ernest Newman wrote : ‘ Music can become dance when it is subjected to repetition , multiplication and abstraction using steps , poses and gestures with pattern and expression to appeal to both the eye and the intellect ’ ( see also page 47 ) . |
| 40 | This does not mean that speed must be avoided , nor that the unexpected need offend the eye . |
| 41 | I catch the eye of a knifeblade . |
| 42 | With the colour mask tube the horizontal definition is theoretically reduced by a factor of three but the eye is quite tolerant to small changes of detail in moving scenes in the opposite direction . |
| 43 | Incidentally , I have used projection television receivers at home for the last 40 years and , possibly their use does not require the eye to be concentrated in one continuous subtended angle , my in eyes in their fourth quarter century still resolve that one minute of arc ! |
| 44 | The group quickly gained substantial influence ; its success reflected upon Mr Lo , whose abilities caught the eye of the colonial government . |
| 45 | Finding the charms of the private sector unexpectedly resistible , he returned to government , and subsequently caught the eye of Sir Edward Youde , the Governor of Hong Kong from 1982-85 . |
| 46 | They have no remarkable features to catch the eye , nor , in tandem , do they form a satifying or picturesque group as a street of Georgian terraces does . |
| 47 | In the village of Damour , a young Jewish member of the Allied forces , Moshe Dayan , was shot in the eye . |
| 48 | He recently retired as editor of the Eye but he still spends much of his time at the magazine 's cramped offices in Soho . |
| 49 | The mime and dancing is throughout spectacular , a delight to the eye . |
| 50 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 51 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 52 | The audience file in to discover three actors sitting ragged and disconsolate under the eye of a fourth who is reading the Bible and shouting ‘ Shut up ! ’ at intervals . |
| 53 | King : But see where yonder Emma comes to me , In such a light as blinds the eye to tears , The which casts shadows o'er her lovely face And totally muck up the shot , I fear . |
| 54 | Moments later Loughborough lost their flanker John Hastings with a cut around the eye . |
| 55 | But there may have been more to the Chancellor 's remarks than meet the eye . |
| 56 | Dignified , modest , though not unaware of his charisma and influence , Eric was a serious man , yet with a twinkle in the eye and by no means narrow in his thinking . |
| 57 | Mr Mandela , for his part , according to Mr Ramaphosa , had ‘ a unique greatness ’ , a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye . |
| 58 | It has an almost mystical appeal for north-east people , with its prominent blue peaks attracting the eye from so many quarters . |
| 59 | The beautiful underfoot carpets of blue gentium delight the eye and , above fly buzzards , eagles , skylarks and wheatears . |
| 60 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |