Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agrippa 's face was round , cherubic , his features small and neat like those of a child , except for the hooded eyes and the look of sardonic amusement with which he watched everything about him . |
| 2 | For the right eye the converse is true . |
| 3 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 4 | TREATMENT FOR THE ENTIRE EYE CONTOUR AREA . |
| 5 | To deal with these , and any imperfect nuts , there is no substitute for the keen eyes and picky fingers of rows of women , who scan moving belts which cunningly tip the nuts over to expose all their weaknesses , and remove offending objects . |
| 6 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Swedes claim to have discovered a cure for the sore eyes caused by staring at a screen all day which does n't involve putting any kind of filter or screen over the monitor . |
| 8 | I had considered that perhaps the clues to the several lost treasures were concealed in the fabric of the buildings , that clues might be readily available for the discerning eye — although , logic would surely dictate otherwise . |
| 9 | We were looking for the reflective eyes of a fox . |
| 10 | The indicative offer follows this stage and sets the scene for the formal eye ball to eye ball negotiations . |
| 11 | No longer would their errors be held to ridicule in respect of run-outs , stumpings and certain other contentious issues ( but not lbws or bat-pad catches — though there could be a case for relieving the umpires of the task of no-balling ) ; nor could players justifiably feel disgruntled for the superior eye of the camera would be deciding their fates with pronounced accuracy , ensuring that justice was done and seen to be done . |
| 12 | The sameness of yellow road lights , shaped like faucets , flash black flash upon the desert of the motorway , and then , the bit where the road goes dark , where there is no light at all , but for the torch-like eyes of our own headlights . |
| 13 | I can only just make it out and I wrote it No charge for the free eye sight test . |
| 14 | Malebranche had argued , moreover , that the argument from the relativity of perception was just as applicable to primary qualities such as extension and motion : what looks small to me will seem large to a mite ; some movements may be too slow for the human eye to detect . |
| 15 | In extreme cases the search for order among the chaos can become too difficult for the human eye alone . |
| 16 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 17 | They are used because of their alleged efficiency , the two main spectral lines of sodium being emitted at nearly the peak of the colour response curve for the human eye . |
| 18 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 19 | Araminta , ’ he amended as the pale eyes turned upon him in gentle reproach , ‘ there is no need . |
| 20 | The answer to Question 2 is equally clearly yes , provided only that the difference between the modern eye and its immediate predecessor X is sufficiently small . |
| 21 | The latest work , Phosphor , is an exploration of the relationship ‘ between the human eye and its ability to make sense of colour , shape and light . ’ |
| 22 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
| 23 | These numbers are given in the histogram at the left , 1 meaning that a cell could only be activated through the contralateral eye , 7 that it could only be activated through the ipsilateral eye , and intermediate numbers indicating intermediate degrees of ocular dominance ; thus group 4 means that both eyes affected the neuron equally . |
| 24 | Seen through the disapproving eyes of respectable citizens they were nothing but a disorderly and disorganized rabble , dropouts from the social ladder . |
| 25 | The tiniest corner can become a retreat from the day 's troubles , where a patch of raked sand — seen through the right eyes — is a rippled lake , or a few stems of bamboo a hillside thicket . |
| 26 | Seeing , as it did , through the closed eyes , as it looked murderously around . |
| 27 | He looks at the city through the diverse eyes of Kevin Kline 's anxious but sympathetic lawyer , Steve Martin 's greedily exploitative film maker and Danny Glover 's endangered tow-truck driver . |
| 28 | This attitude may seem intensely romantic , but was acceptable to Eliot because sanctified through the anthropological eye . |
| 29 | The two are clearly allied , however , since we can perceive directly through the mental faculty of sight — subtle sight , one could say — as well as via input through the physical eyes . |
| 30 | Here he sits in front of one of his own paintings which , by using double exposure , appears through the left eye in which he was going blind . |