Example sentences of "in the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in the Eye : detail from the new design mag |
| 2 | In other words , on the divorce question the Roman catholic clerical leadership were still using their joint authority , which is legitimate in the eyes of the majority in the Southern state , to press into civil legislation their views of public morality , and to use the informed conscience of the faithful as the primary vehicle . |
| 3 | The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day . |
| 4 | Who shall be higher in the eyes of Heaven . |
| 5 | Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron . |
| 6 | This is true , to a lesser extent , of all forms of imaginative writing , but poetry is the most obviously governed by convention and genre , and in the eyes of both the Russian Formalists and of non-literary readers the most likely to display linguistic deformation . |
| 7 | In the sweetness of victory , Mr Andreotti 's Roman cohorts have forgotten that they are mortal and , in the eyes of many churchmen , their greed and arrogance now risk bringing Catholic politics into disrepute . |
| 8 | After 1997 , their ‘ British Nationals ( Overseas ) ’ passports would confer no real benefit since , in the eyes of the Chinese government , they would be Chinese citizens . |
| 9 | Maronite collaboration with the French — and the support for a Maronite state which later came from Israel — contaminated the community in the eyes of its opponents . |
| 10 | If ministers spend this week in Blackpool trying to paint the Labour Party red again — as Kenneth Baker seems to intend — they will have missed the point and further demeaned themselves in the eyes of the public . |
| 11 | INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary . |
| 12 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 13 | In the eyes of both , it would make sense not to have him roaming the country generating huge gatherings with a politically futile , and possibly violently anarchic , outcome . |
| 14 | There were tears in the eyes of the farmer as he shook us warmly by the hand . |
| 15 | Partisan viewers tended to see television as being less favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other viewers . |
| 16 | At the same time , partisan readers tended to claim that their newspaper was more favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other readers . |
| 17 | Both Soviet and hostile critics observed subsequently that in the eyes of the people Living Church members often looked like Soviet agents and opportunists . |
| 18 | But the Hillsborough Agreement made Mrs Thatcher look credible and constructive over Northern Ireland in the eyes of world opinion , and especially in the United States . |
| 19 | In the eyes of that generation of students he gave Liberalism a magic , a faith in the future . |
| 20 | But in the eyes of other electors Ramsey had merits . |
| 21 | Thereby , in the eyes not only of the United Kingdom but of the world , each of these territories became a sovereign independent state , alias a nation . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly the perception of the homosexual as feminized remains strangely disturbing — the supreme symbol , in the eyes of those like Norman Mailer , of a range of deep failures including the demise of masculinity , the abdication of masculine power , the desire for self-destruction , and , beyond that , the loss of difference . |
| 23 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 24 | In the eyes of children , West Indians have it and Asians do n't . |
| 25 | Which may not rank the outsiders in the eyes of the Ladbrokes odds-maker , but if they look over the fence they will certainly be able to see the outsiders from where they have been placed . |
| 26 | Pakistanis have the added stigma in the eyes of the white hooligan of tending to be better off , linguistically separate , less physical , and less interested in football . |
| 27 | But still , the Louts were tedious , at least in the eyes of Erika and her friends , the more so to Erika who had an uneasy , and not unjustified feeling that Paul was always likely to be drawn into their orbit . |
| 28 | YOU REPORT ( November 7 ) that the president of the Police Federation is worried lest the use of the police in the ambulance dispute would jeopardise the idea of the impartiality of the police in the eyes of the public . |
| 29 | It is the ingrained contempt , the impulse , apparently deliberately inculcated , to humiliate which , in the eyes of enlightened Israelis , is perhaps more revealing , more frightening in its ultimate implications , than all the well-documented brutalities . |
| 30 | Informal ity in the eyes of English lawyers will be far from informal to the child . |