Example sentences of "[prep] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duck rather more rufous than duck eider , but otherwise very hard to distinguish except by larger proportion of bill covered with feathers , especially at sides ; bare pan not extending right back past eye , as with Eider . |
| 2 | Certainly it is essential to use some form of eye protection . |
| 3 | Arthritis crippled her hands so she had to give up , most reluctantly , the flute and then a series of eye operations ended in virtual blindness . |
| 4 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 5 | Its owners were then called Malet , subsequently Lords of Eye in Suffolk . |
| 6 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 7 | I found myself , by a curious alchemy of eye and ear , wondering at things in Don Quixote and Brahms 's Second Symphony that I had neither noticed nor pondered before . |
| 8 | Straight of limb , true of eye , steady and aglow . |
| 9 | For example , the dry aqueous alcohol extract of Vaccinium myrtillus berries ( bilberry ) has been marketed in Italy since 1964 for the treatment of eye problems and microcirculation disorders . |
| 10 | He thought of his home bathroom , full of old underwear , open pots of eye paint , dangling shirts and stockings , sticky bottles of hair conditioner and tubes of shaving foam . |
| 11 | Ridley , as an ophthalmologist , might well have followed up this observation with more studies of eye infections , but the opportunity seems not to have been pursued . |
| 12 | Quick of eye and sure of foot , she reached the other side safely . |
| 13 | Lack of eye contact from his mother when he was talking about his day gave John Grant the firm message that she had no interest . |
| 14 | The eyes can be particularly revealing , and people vary in the amount of eye contact they make and maintain while communicating . |
| 15 | In this cycle emphasis would be on achieving acceptable standards of oracy and literacy ( in Sesotho ) , though oral English is also introduced , together with adequate numeracy and other basic elements : i.e. coordination of eye and hand ; simple powers of observation and reasoning based on the home , school and local environment ; personal health habits and positive attitudes appropriate to the age of the child . |
| 16 | For such an animal there is only one possible kind of eye expression : the narrow vertical slit of a fully contracted pupil . |
| 17 | One person on site was taken to the local hospital complaining of eye irritation but was later discharged and the crew of a vessel in the Humber estuary reported exposure to an irritant cloud , but not ill effects were evident when the crew was checked by a doctor . |
| 18 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 19 | The longer the periods of eye contact , the greater the level of this mutual involvement , other things being equal . |
| 20 | Draw an imaginary line from the centre of eye to under the cheekbone and start there , pushing upwards . |
| 21 | That 's even though the British Boxing Board have already ruled out Barkley from fighting here because of eye retina damage . |
| 22 | These 300 suffered from a series of various iatrogenic complaints , including occasional disruption of the reproductive system , loss of hair or a change in its colour and texture , and a variety of eye disorders including the development of cataracts . |
| 23 | The whole question of eye care and hygiene and the use and proper maintenance of aids to vision needs to be included and discussed in the health education curriculum . |
| 24 | A tear welled up in her eye and rolled down her cheek , leaving a streak of eye make-up behind it . |
| 25 | In practice this would n't work because the detectors would need impossibly precise information about the speed of eye movements and the phase lag between the central movement commands and the actual movement of the image . |
| 26 | In binocular right-eye and left-eye viewing conditions , brisk OKN is elicited by right-to-left motion ; for left-to-right motion the number of beats is very small and does not represent a normal OKN response ( the traces at bottom illustrate the observer 's description of the pattern of eye movements in the two directions ) . |
| 27 | Interaction usually begins with a period of eye contact which appears to signal from me to you ( and vice versa ) that we are ready to relate . |
| 28 | There are plenty of eye witnesses to testify to the fact that the Koenigs Collection of 526 Old Master drawings ended up in the Pushkin Museum of Art , Moscow , after being removed from Schloss Pillnitz near Berlin at the end of the war . |
| 29 | I have assessed the risk of eye contamination during outpatient surgical procedures performed under local anaesthesia . |
| 30 | Over six months I recorded blood spots on the front of a single pair of eye protection glasses ( Surgikos ) . |