Example sentences of "with an eye [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contracts are drawn up with an eye to flexibility and a contract is often considered an agreement to enter into a general course of conduct rather than something fixing precise terms . |
| 2 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 3 | Like the American western railroads , the Russian Trans-Siberian had been built with an eye to migration and settlement . |
| 4 | This was also borne out by the inclusion of catalogues at the end of the book , looking very much like contributions from various nurseries and it is evident that those recommending the work did so with an eye to business . |
| 5 | Without external evidence , there is no way to know how deliberate Dickinson 's use of this imagery was ’ , even if the images may , cautiously , be ‘ interpreted with an eye to biography ’ . |
| 6 | He scored 15 and 1 , but he was clearly a man with an eye for posterity . |
| 7 | The Determined Potater : This children 's film tells of a spud with an eye for advancement . |
| 8 | It 's tough work staging the Battle of Edgehill , with an eye for authenticity and tough on the props that bring realism to a 350 year old battle . |
| 9 | MoM : Stockwell , Ipswich ( Gutsy grafter with an eye for goal ) . |
| 10 | She turned her from pink to soft blue and grey-green and gold , to the satisfaction of everyone with an eye for colour . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The scope for an entrepreneur to get in on the ground floor and turn petrol stations into shops supplying parts and oils was obvious — to those with an eye for business . |
| 13 | For those with an eye for designer style , Earth Clothing , is a must . |
| 14 | No good for your keen voyeur with an eye for detail , not even with the curtains open , blurred white shapes , very frustrating . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | And if you 're a policeman on the beat , with an eye on promotion , what easier way to keep your arrest rate up than to go out and pull in some black kids off the street . |
| 17 | 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 . |