Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] eye " in BNC.
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1 | What is clear is that this was all one society , in which the wives — like Mrs Lowndes herself — wrote books or maintained salons , while their husbands were functionaries , some of them much in the public eye as ministers of the Crown , others — like Frederic Lowndes — no less influential and esteemed for operating under wraps , as grey eminences . |
2 | Chapter One begins with allegations printed in one of the more respectable weekly magazines that do their best to ruin the reputation of everyone in the public eye . |
3 | Record companies , managers or anyone in the music business can only notice your music if your band is at a venue playing in the public eye . |
4 | The controversy created by the research suddenly put Hector 's dolphin firmly in the public eye . |
5 | Ahead you 'll find a series of lucrative events which may well put you in the public eye , and carry you to further success and acclaim . |
6 | ‘ Hardly ever has a Goebbels article stood so much in the public eye as this one , ’ added the report , ‘ but his articles have probably never been so criticized . |
7 | It is a constant risk for someone like her who is always in the public eye , that someone will develop a fixation on her , ’ the colleague said . |
8 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
9 | ‘ Red Ellen ’ had long been in the public eye — notably as the figure at the head of the Jarrow March in 1936 bearing down upon London to protest against the enormity of unemployment . |
10 | Unlike many groups , The Wedding Present largely avoided the dubious pleasure of growing up in the public eye . |
11 | If Chapman had become football 's forgotten man , he was about to put himself , and his new club , in the public eye again , for on 16 March , 1921 Huddersfield bought Stephenson for a fee that was ‘ probably the highest ever paid by a Yorkshire club ’ — £4,000 . |
12 | Nothing was left untouched where a change would put the club in the public eye , improve the team 's performance or , preferably , both . |
13 | Chapman 's mind worked day and night on motivating not only his players but everyone involved with the club , on keeping Arsenal in the public eye , on planning their victories , and on improving the game in general . |
14 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
15 | Few would disagree that the CAB has raised its profile in the public eye over the last few years . |
16 | I immediately put the fern into our hospital , that is on the kitchen windowsill , a position in the public eye where it could be attended to by my of the family . |
17 | To build up a shop 's reputation in the public eye ( ie to make customers more aware of the shop and the goods it offers , and to convince them that it provides good value and good service ) |
18 | I suppose it is an easily understood curiosity about the behaviour of those in the public eye . |
19 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
20 | And because I am in the public eye it is important that I fight back , that I show the world that the police are not infallible and that the rotten apples in the barrel must be exposed . |
21 | In the public eye the bankrupt is seen as a sort of quasi-criminal . |
22 | I 'd like to start somewhere not too much in the public eye , because it takes the pressure off , so I 'll probably go to Argentina or somewhere like that , do some rehearsals and some gigs and see what transpires . ’ |
23 | When I was in the public eye |
24 | Merton 's emergence in the public eye has been steady , and somewhat at odds with the prevailing comedy spirit . |
25 | It helped enormously that he also happened to enjoy affairs with women , and that when he was acting on stage , his sexual proclivities were not such a problem as he was less in the public eye . |
26 | I like to be the centre of attention or in the public eye |
27 | Other people in the public eye would be reading the first seven , and his grandfather the ninth . |
28 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
29 | ‘ The fact that she has to live in the public eye , I mean , I would slit my wrists already . |
30 | Sky TV 's broadcast put the whole incident in the public eye , even though Goulding was formally cited after the Disciplinary Committee watched a tape of the game last Thursday when dealing with two men sent off in that match . |