Example sentences of "[prep] the eye and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey Smith profiles trees both native and exotic , and explains how a garden tree and its companion planting forms a focal point for the eye and , just as importantly , for wildlife . |
| 2 | And one famous quote during a court case he presided over was : ‘ The old law of the eye for the eye and a tooth and for a tooth has no place in civilised society . ’ |
| 3 | In the first , primary visual cortex , V1 or area 17 , as it is also known , there was considered to be a fairly faithful map of the retina with relatively little recoding of information having taken place between the eye and this part of the brain . |
| 4 | Figure 7 A domestic cat rubbing the hand of a human with the glands between the eye and the ear ( Photo : L. Barden ) . |
| 5 | This takes the form of a stripe , band or patch of dark colour that runs right through the eye and effectively makes it invisible . |
| 6 | Because of this , certain species , such as this banded butterfly fish , possess an eye-stripe , a dark line that passes through the eye and hides its presence . |
| 7 | In other cases , the eye-concealing lines are horizontal stripes , or a single diagonal line may run up through the eye and end on top of the head . |
| 8 | The only dabbling duck of the region with sexes alike and no obvious speculum ; like a rather large longer-necked greyish duck Teal ( p. 55 ) , with a dark mark through the eye and contrasting pale lower face ; head shaggy rather than crested ; tail white Drake has a weak nasal squeak , duck a double whistle . |
| 9 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 10 | The lamina ganglionaris is the zone nearest the eye and is connected with the inner ends of the ommatidia by the layer of post-retinal fibres . |
| 11 | Instead , Mr Choyce implants a delicate lens between the lens of the eye and the cornea . |
| 12 | Fortunately this does not seem to matter too much in some applications — eg amalgams are used to replace dentine , polymethylmethacrylate replaces the lens of the eye and titanium replaces the bone of the femur . |
| 13 | Used as a medicinal herb in Sri Lanka for treatment of the eye and in India as a general medicinal herb . |
| 14 | For underneath the eyes , use a soft eye pencil — I use dark brown — starting thinly at the centre of the eye and taking it gradually thicker to the outer corner . |
| 15 | With non-reflex cameras , hold the filter in front of the eye and rotate . |
| 16 | In order to be able to understand the situation of the visually handicapped child in an ordinary class it is relevant to be reminded of the function of the eye and the visual system , since without such basic information the demands which such a child faces are unlikely to be understood . |
| 17 | The retina consists of the inner lining at the back of the eye and is a delicate membrane , constructed of ten different layers , one of which contains the two types of light-sensitive cells , the rods and cones . |
| 18 | Refractive errors develop because of the altered shape of the eye and abnormal position of the lens . |
| 19 | These phenomena did not move with movements of the eye and appeared to be true hallucinations , centrally caused , but due no doubt to the long and unusual strain put upon the eyes . |
| 20 | A second female is shot behind the eye and swims erratically in half-circles before floating motionless on the surface . |
| 21 | He cut me above the eye and broke my nose which had been broken before . |
| 22 | As Lindstedt ( 1986 ) explains , ‘ there is a simple correspondence between the distance of a focused object from the eye and the size of its image on the retina . |
| 23 | The project is part of a wider concern about how sound impinges uninvited on memory and how material from the eye and the ear are combined by the brain . |
| 24 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 25 | Then she looked me in the eye and smiled . |
| 26 | Such awareness provided another means for the obsessive anxieties of the establishment to be counterbalanced from within , and as Jacobi ( 1967 : 22 ) suggests , created the potential ability to look truths in the eye and ‘ the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |
| 29 | It 's much better to look people in the eye and tell them the truth . ’ |
| 30 | It was ‘ an unfair burden on the heart of our President ’ to look people in the eye and tell them that ‘ your government ca n't , try as it would , ca n't do anything about it . ’ |