Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has consistently denied that most British Muslims support Iran 's fatwa ( religious edict ) — a belief borne out by a BBC2 survey for the Public Eye programme which showed only 28 per cent of British Muslims in favour . |
| 2 | Thurlow 's story is strictly that of a man pursuing his hobby and getting more and more embarrassed as the public eye focused upon him . |
| 3 | Traffic was strictly regulated in Arcady , ground vehicles being confined to certain routes , especially those that were outside the city regulations concerning fuel effluent , such as the Star Eye trucks . |
| 4 | If you pay for the glasses yourself , you ca n't apply for a refund afterwards ( even if you were entitled to a voucher ) unless they were prescribed through the Hospital Eye Service . |
| 5 | full cost of contact lenses prescribed through the Hospital Eye Service |
| 6 | contact lenses prescribed through the Hospital Eye Service |
| 7 | The study of women and film involves , as in the subtitle of Kaplan 's book , at least ‘ both sides of the camera ’ : women as film-makers , and women as cinematic objects , viewed through the camera eye . |
| 8 | This relational emphasis is found in the repetition of the word eye itself in abstract nouns implying perception ( aspect , sign , glitter , ripple , glance , etc ) , and in verbs like see , mark , and look . |
| 9 | Usually career coercion will suffice to ensure that any troublesome thesis stays unpublished and out of the public eye . |
| 10 | Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye . |
| 11 | Mr Yeltsin remained out of the public eye at his country house , but sent two of his key lieutenants , Mr Gennady Burbulis and Mr Sergei Shakhrai , along with Mr Gaidar , to address a meeting of the parliamentary leadership . |
| 12 | He went to exceedingly great lengths to keep his name out of the public eye , but , as with Lawrence , an extreme desire for secrecy and public contempt for ambition were accompanied by a morbid fascination with the power of the will . |
| 13 | Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye . |
| 14 | And so too , for some curious reason , did an injunction from his father many , many years before : if you want to be happy , keep out of the public eye . |
| 15 | A stock culture of the wild-type flour beetle ( Tribolium castaneum ) and one of the pearl eye type flour beetle ( see address p. 60 ) ; 1.5 kg bag of wholemeal flour ; 80g dried yeast ( Four small 20 g sachets ) ; two containers for the stock cultures ( large jam jars or ice-cream cartons ) ; several small containers for the breeding experiments-the best are 25 mm × 75 mm specimen tubes , but you can use test tubes , old aspirin bottles , or any glass or plastic container of similar size ; fine muslin or similar fabric for covering the mouths of the containers ; rubber bands ( four large and several small ones ) ; a kitchen sieve for separating insects from the flour ( about twenty meshes to the inch ) ; a small jar containing methylated spirits ; a medium-sized water-colour paint-brush ; a good hand-lens ( × 8 ) . |
| 16 | Each facet of the compound eye , and each spider 's eye , is so small that it has a short focal length . |
| 17 | Some flies have larger facets at the front and top of the compound eye to pick out detail . |
| 18 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 19 | ‘ Poor kid , he wants to be off with the Star Eye wenches , sowing overdue wild oats and learning about life . |
| 20 | The gentleman with the glass eye at the next table is discussing civic sculpture with a woman who might be Catherine Deneuve . |
| 21 | The passion of Mr Kluge 's third wife , Patricia , for the royal family has periodically thrust her 75-year-old husband into the public eye . |
| 22 | It was instrumental in bringing the young Niki Lauda into the public eye when he dismissed it as rubbish after a handful of laps . |
| 23 | Although the film did not accurately portray the attitudes and feelings of mentally handicapped people , it may be commended for bringing a sensitive subject into the public eye . |
| 24 | The division of work between themselves and the Labour left put the latter into the public eye as spokespeople , and the republican contribution to developments has tended to be downplayed in consequence . |
| 25 | Once the ink has dried on the contract , the whole music business machinery moves into gear , thrusting the artist into the public eye . |
| 26 | ( It was during this festival that Jimi Somerville emerged into the public eye . ) |
| 27 | After a period of blossoming in the 1970s , during which time homosexuals came into the public eye and fought militantly for their rights , the majority of gay organisations became institutionalised . |
| 28 | Ex-music journalist Nick Kelly and his band first came into the public eye in 1989 with the release of the excellent single ‘ Arclight ’ , which was voted Single of the Year in the 1989 Hot Press readers ' poll . |
| 29 | The national press has brought DPR 's hard sell techniques into the public eye . |
| 30 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |