Example sentences of "under the [adj] eye of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 2 | They are a nice group , touring under the experienced eye of coach Intikhab Alam , the former Pakistan captain and Surrey player , with Harvard-educated Khalid Mahmood as the tour manager . |
| 3 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 4 | Since then , however , Scotland 's forward play , under the benevolent eye of Richie Dixon , has developed with pleasing continuity , particularly at the lineout , where in both the previous Five Nations games opposition machinations have been torn asunder rather like the post-war devastation in the Orson Welles screen classic . |
| 5 | I dressed and crept along the endless corridors until I found the staircase and slid silently down the banisters under the disapproving eye of Sir Mauger Grindlewood . |
| 6 | Benjamin looked round the busy yard where servants were pulling out carts and hitching up horses under the watchful eye of Bowyer 's soldiers . |
| 7 | No such extravagance here , as under the watchful eye of Asquith , he launched into some of his best known songs . |
| 8 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 9 | In April 1932 RAPP was disbanded , and although in the Soviet Union the ensuing liberalising effect was only temporary , lasting until 1935–6 when rigid cultural controls were reintroduced under the watchful eye of Zhdanov , in France , by contrast , 1932 was to mark the beginning of a prolonged period not only of cultural liberalisation within the PCF but also of political co-operation between communists and fellow-travelling sympathisers . |
| 10 | At the knitting workshop at Rowan 's mill in Holmfirth , we had the chance to design our own knitted samples under the watchful eye of Rowan designers Annabel Fox and Jean Moss . |
| 11 | Anna was immersed in a game with Edward under the watchful eye of Miss Fitch , who gave Ruth no welcome : so she decided to go for a walk . |
| 12 | Junks laden with tea , wood and camphor soon transformed this sleepy backwater into the marketplace of South East Asia under the watchful eye of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles ; today Singapore is considered the place to purchase that Cartier wristwatch at a real snip . |
| 13 | Under the watchful eye of Area Manager , Martin Ellis , the campaign call ‘ NOT ONLY … |
| 14 | Cardiff looked over to where the other two strangers were laying their metal suitcases carefully down in the main reception area under the watchful eye of Pearce 's men . |
| 15 | Trembling visibly with fear under the watchful eye of Mr Upadhyaya and the police , the official also said that the hold-up was due to a lunch break . |
| 16 | Weaners in the piglet nursery at the Easton Lodge pig unit come under the watchful eye of John Knighton , the farm 's head stockperson . |
| 17 | It will be a most welcome first for Derry should they win the Sam Maguire Cup and they have been preparing for their big day with rigorous training sessions under the watchful eye of manager Eamon Coleman who this weekend will outline his strategy in secret conclave with his players . |
| 18 | Developed and designed by Austin , Texas-based Ross , under the watchful eyes of Sun Microsystems Inc engineers , the superscalar , superpipelined HyperSparc begins life as a 66.7MHz unit delivering 70 SPECmarks ( 55 SPECint , 64 SPECfp ) , 133 MIPS and 32 MFLOPS , compared to the 50 SPECmarks of Texas ' initial 40MHz Viking CPU . |
| 19 | Senna went on to win nine Formula Three races in succession and his success was to ensure a regular succession of hopeful young Brazilians leaving home to drive under the watchful eyes of Bennetts . |
| 20 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 21 | In the days of pastoral England , country people had gone to church under the stern eye of squire and parson , one of whom was almost certain to be the local magistrate . |
| 22 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
| 23 | Under the menacing eyes of Edward 's Forest judges , juries in Essex , Hampshire , Gloucestershire , Derby , Staffordshire , Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire restated the bounds of the forests in their counties at their widest extent . |