Example sentences of "[noun] with an eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craftsmen with an eye to the future like Benjamin would be quite likely to make fairly late marriages — there would be a lot of saving up to do first , and the better established one was , the better the chances of attracting a lady of some substance . |
| 2 | The docks , the University of London , the theatre in the age of Kean , the London art world , Rudolph Ackermann and British commerce are all examined in the marvellous introductory essays by Simon Jervis , Ian Jenkins , Celina Fox and others which combine detailed research with an eye for the smell and feel of the city . |
| 3 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 4 | That , perhaps , is one reason why Mr Clinton has dwelt particularly upon ‘ symbolic ’ politics : like making the armed forces accept gays or staffing his administration with an eye to ethnic ‘ balance ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ What I 'm not offering is an easy passage with an eye on the clock . ’ |
| 6 | Two American companies with an eye on available and inexpensive manpower have set up software export units in the southern hill city of Bangalore , India 's own Silicon Valley . |
| 7 | Young people lead their lives with an eye on the future , and with a sense of the potential for further work or achievement . |
| 8 | All bookshops with an eye to their image have events nowadays , although the competition is tough going . |
| 9 | A. N. L. Munby [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint ’ and , no doubt in tribute to the superb quality of his illuminated manuscripts and early printed books , referred to him as the ‘ Ideal Connoisseur ’ . |
| 10 | A fish with an eye to the main chance . |
| 11 | The Tooth Fairy and Other Stories , by John Miles shows him to be a photographer with an eye for the bizarre ( until 21 Feb ) |
| 12 | Aesthetically , Londoners will have to draw what consolation they can from the fact that Nicholas Ridley , the former Environment Secretary and a water-colourist with an eye for broader horizons , had some influence in the siting of the gates . |
| 13 | The Group would review all proposals with an eye to determining issues of policy . |
| 14 | Lord Taylor 's main point is to suggest that judges should pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations . |
| 15 | You must surely be right when you say in your editorial today ( ‘ Judging public mood ’ ) that judges should dispose of cases on their merits rather than , as Lord Chief Justice Taylor suggests , pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations . |
| 16 | If this chemical were released into the air surrounding the leaves , it would act as a first line of defence , repelling aphids with an eye on predation . |
| 17 | Madame Chardin was a Protestant with distinct Rousseauian leanings , but she had read her Rousseau with an eye to institutions . |
| 18 | This week , the company opened its first European office in London to serve US expatriates and UK investors with an eye on the US market — locking horns in the process with its main American rival , Fidelity Brokerage , which set up shop in the UK four years ago . |
| 19 | Instead , the governance of academic institutions is liable to be reduced to mere technique , under the control of managers with an eye on the bottom line . |
| 20 | No good for your keen voyeur with an eye for detail , not even with the curtains open , blurred white shapes , very frustrating . |
| 21 | Directed by Val May , this archly absorbing escapade also features Deborah Watling ( Emma Kent ) , and Rowland Davies as the police inspector with an eye for apprehension . |
| 22 | Sunil Gulati , chairman of the competition , said : ‘ We will use this tournament with an eye to the World Cup . ’ |
| 23 | He became a household name after his role as the caddish Ralph Gorse in The Charmer — and even in those Lloyds Bank ads , he plays a smoothie with an eye for a pretty girl . |
| 24 | By adopting the Scottish term , Free Church , instead of Nonconformist , the movement was showing that it was making a new start with an eye to the twentieth , not to the nineteenth or even eighteenth century . |
| 25 | Sally Booth , THE ARTIST WITH AN EYE FOR THE EVERYDAY |
| 26 | 1 Run on the pavements with an eye to what lurks in gateway and garden . |
| 27 | He scored 15 and 1 , but he was clearly a man with an eye for posterity . |
| 28 | He did not look like a wolf , but he did look like a young man with an eye for a girl , and techniques that would bear watching . |
| 29 | Small-town solicitor takes lid off global scams Audrey Gillan meets the man with an eye for a con and finds the Salvation Army is one of a long list of potential fraud targets |
| 30 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |