Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once more , this becomes deviant when satisfactions of the eye overbear genital satisfaction . |
| 2 | The lens lies immediately behind the pupil ; it is a transparent solid body , elliptical in shape , enclosed in a capsule and attached to suspensory ligaments within the eye . |
| 3 | An alternative was to insert cowrie shells in the eye sockets of wooden images like those found as far apart as Togoland , the Philippines and New Zealand . |
| 4 | There 's one in Sunderland with 2,500 dwellings ; the older end is respectable , with tree-lined avenues and mature privets , and concessions to the eye in design details around the doors and windows . |
| 5 | Under the control of an infra-red emitter , each lens alternately opens and closes , to present images to the eye . |
| 6 | He could sing of lizard-clad nobles hunting for trophies , and of body-heat orgies and mutations of the eye , and of a lone white-haired woman whose senses had been scarified , locked in a sanctum forever , her mind reaching to the stars ; and out among all those stars and worlds that she spoke to in her mind , no fellow spirit yearned towards her or was able to express any such feeling — ’ |
| 7 | Could the cabal be a conspiracy against the Emperor and against all humankind mounted by the denizens of the Eye , by those twisted bitter enemies of the Imperium ? |
| 8 | The nature of vision repeatedly explored through art , and an interest in the workings of the eye is hinted at in Oulton 's work ( witness her 1989 prints ‘ Love and Cataracts ’ ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If , under Hugh MacLennan , he was able to form his judgment and turn his phrases under the eye of a skilful novelist , in Louis Dudek 's adroit hands he was able to fashion and test his poetic acumen to the full ; both were to be of absorbing interest to him . |
| 11 | He drove an Escort XR3i complete with fluffy toys , and had moved to Lilac Gardens in the eye of the housing price slump , aided by the bequest of a dead aunt . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His lectures on the eye , the foetal circulation , and especially on the foot , would never , it was claimed , be forgotten by those who had the good fortune to hear him . |
| 14 | But then , for someone who trades in tricks of the eye , she can be pretty unobservant . |
| 15 | The trees stood under their haloes of pink and green strokes , small flying things , solidified light movements or saccades of the eye , brushstrokes , pigment . |
| 16 | Exactly much , much , better than any pokes in the eye with a sharp stick ! |
| 17 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 18 | Figure 7 A domestic cat rubbing the hand of a human with the glands between the eye and the ear ( Photo : L. Barden ) . |
| 19 | Photograph of ‘ happy buttons ’ taken through the lenses of the eye of the trilobite Phacops ( see p. 87 ) of Devonian age . |
| 20 | Mrs Browning had declared it was all too bad , too dreadful an imposition to have been responsible for and that she would not be able to look the Ogilvys in the eye ever again after causing them such vexation . |
| 21 | Its shape did unpleasant things to the eye . |
| 22 | To make a stitch 1/8in ( 3mm ) long , the needle thread has to be drawn from the top spool , through the guides and top tension discs to the eye of the needle . |
| 23 | It becomes just two fingers in the eye type of thing . |
| 24 | To soften around the eyes , blend the edges of the eye shadow . |
| 25 | Blend the edges into the eye line . |
| 26 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 27 | The rate of new referrals to the eye clinic with suspected advanced retinopathy was similar in rural and urban areas ( 4.8% ( 44 ) v 4.5% ( 55 ) ) but more rural patients than urban patients required urgent laser photocoagulation ( 1.4% ( 13 ) v 0.5% ( 6 ) , p<0.02 ) . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the section Reid considers the artist 's need to acquire ‘ the habit of distinguishing the appearance of objects to the eye , from the judgment which we form by sight , of their colour , distance , magnitude , and figure . ’ |
| 29 | It is necessary for the painter to make the distinction because unless what he captures on his canvas is what Reid calls ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ the viewer of the painting will not make the right judgements . |
| 30 | It begins to look as if ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ and ‘ the judgement which we form by sight ’ do not constitute a dichotomy . |