Example sentences of "[subord] the eye [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen at a great distance off , further than the eye can see . |
| 2 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 3 | Blows were exchanged faster than the eye could follow but to no avail — within minutes the proud High Elf lay headless on the plain . |
| 4 | But if the eye can remain open without being seen , then the prey has the best of both worlds . |
| 5 | A phenomenon resulting only partly from use of the above technique is that figures can best be compared when arranged in columns since the eye can then relatively easily ignore unvarying digits and the brain can perform subtractions or divisions more readily . |
| 6 | ( It is worth emphasising that the question is only one of judging whether the eye can determine the experimental set-up , and has nothing to do with the measurements . ) |
| 7 | Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see . |
| 8 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 9 | There were green fields as far as the eye could see . |
| 10 | On either side as far as the eye could see , long lines of children , dwarfed by the adults stooped over the restless machinery , reached or crawled , snatched or darted , in and out of the network of rattling belts and hissing pipes , playing a constant game with death . |
| 11 | As far as the eye could see , the water was a dirty mud colour . |
| 12 | The plain stretched north and south as far as the eye could see and there was no sign of either vegetation or habitation — nothing but dust , rock and sand . |
| 13 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 14 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 15 | My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see , work out the route mentally , then , leaving the wheelbarrow , test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet . |
| 16 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 17 | I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see . |
| 18 | … imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak , as far as the eye could reach , and paid out until it touched the ‘ high places ’ of the earth at a number of ridges , banks , and knowls . |
| 19 | As far as the eye could see the earth was brown : there were white pockets of unmelted snow , and sombre green pine thickets on the ridges , but no leaves on the deciduous trees and no bright green shoots in the withered remains of last year 's grass . |
| 20 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |
| 21 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 22 | He began to retrace his tracks , drawing as he went , back over that country around Zweeloo that was entirely covered , as far as the eye could see , ‘ with young corn , the very , very tenderest green I know . ’ |
| 23 | They debouched from this second strait into a broad body of water which stretched as far as the eye could see toward the setting sun … |
| 24 | The show was all around , as far as the eye could see , any direction . |
| 25 | No other vehicle was in sight as far as the eye could see . |
| 26 | In front of him , as far as the eye could see , was the serenity of Lake Champlain , and all about him were the lush verdant forests of southern Vermont . |
| 27 | Cross-references to this appendix are given by italic numbers , ( eg 16 ) From Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences , incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes , and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean ; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach ( 1 ) . |
| 28 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 29 | In the fierce noon-day sun the water stretched as far as the eye could see , in every shade of blue from palest turquoise to the deepest indigo of the horizon . |
| 30 | Cars , cars , cars , as far as the eye could see . |