Example sentences of "[prep] the public eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has consistently denied that most British Muslims support Iran 's fatwa ( religious edict ) — a belief borne out by a BBC2 survey for the Public Eye programme which showed only 28 per cent of British Muslims in favour . |
| 2 | Thurlow 's story is strictly that of a man pursuing his hobby and getting more and more embarrassed as the public eye focused upon him . |
| 3 | Usually career coercion will suffice to ensure that any troublesome thesis stays unpublished and out of the public eye . |
| 4 | Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye . |
| 5 | Mr Yeltsin remained out of the public eye at his country house , but sent two of his key lieutenants , Mr Gennady Burbulis and Mr Sergei Shakhrai , along with Mr Gaidar , to address a meeting of the parliamentary leadership . |
| 6 | He went to exceedingly great lengths to keep his name out of the public eye , but , as with Lawrence , an extreme desire for secrecy and public contempt for ambition were accompanied by a morbid fascination with the power of the will . |
| 7 | Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye . |
| 8 | And so too , for some curious reason , did an injunction from his father many , many years before : if you want to be happy , keep out of the public eye . |
| 9 | The passion of Mr Kluge 's third wife , Patricia , for the royal family has periodically thrust her 75-year-old husband into the public eye . |
| 10 | It was instrumental in bringing the young Niki Lauda into the public eye when he dismissed it as rubbish after a handful of laps . |
| 11 | Although the film did not accurately portray the attitudes and feelings of mentally handicapped people , it may be commended for bringing a sensitive subject into the public eye . |
| 12 | The division of work between themselves and the Labour left put the latter into the public eye as spokespeople , and the republican contribution to developments has tended to be downplayed in consequence . |
| 13 | Once the ink has dried on the contract , the whole music business machinery moves into gear , thrusting the artist into the public eye . |
| 14 | ( It was during this festival that Jimi Somerville emerged into the public eye . ) |
| 15 | After a period of blossoming in the 1970s , during which time homosexuals came into the public eye and fought militantly for their rights , the majority of gay organisations became institutionalised . |
| 16 | Ex-music journalist Nick Kelly and his band first came into the public eye in 1989 with the release of the excellent single ‘ Arclight ’ , which was voted Single of the Year in the 1989 Hot Press readers ' poll . |
| 17 | The national press has brought DPR 's hard sell techniques into the public eye . |
| 18 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 19 | The phrase ‘ the military-industrial complex ’ , though brought into the public eye by Eisenhower , is associated with critical elite theorists such as Wright Mills who bear responsibility for identifying and defining the problem . |
| 20 | " It is not a job that brings him into the public eye , but , believe me , he is one of the most trusted officers of the bank . " |
| 21 | THE 200pc tax slapped on European wine imports by the United States has brought into the public eye the bewildering tangle of international trade agreements or lack of them which come under the umbrella of GATT ( the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) . |
| 22 | IN SMALL , anonymous offices around Scotland , well away from the public eye , computer printers are now busy churning out tens of thousands of warning letters to rebellious voters . |
| 23 | But the curious pair who for a time were so well-known simply for being rich vanished from the public eye — towards a tax haven in Jersey . |
| 24 | Most stars managed to hide their addiction from the public eye . |
| 25 | Senior staff regard themselves as rarely far from the public eye , a view encouraged by the attention paid by some local newspapers to the water authorities . |
| 26 | Where Richardson wrote his novels , and his heroines their letters , in little closets removed from the public eye , Jane Austen and her heroines spend their time in parlours which are anything but private . |
| 27 | Parents put their daughters in there to hide them away " from the public eye until the baby was born and adopted . |
| 28 | BRITTEN 'S Miss Wordsworth , primmest of Suffolk schoolma'ms , would no doubt have balked at setting before the public eye any but her most promising music pupils . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |