Example sentences of "with an eye [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original concern for out-of-school education is evident in the way objectives are defined in terms of utility. : threshold level specifications are drawn up with an eye to meeting the needs of learners as eventual participants in contexts of communicative interaction , rather than with a concern to activate the actual learning process itself . |
| 2 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 3 | Also with an eye to providing user friendly service to the community , the shop stays open until 9 p.m . |
| 4 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 5 | Films like Lady Audley 's Secret ( 1920 ) , the story of a bigamous marriage and a woman 's cold-blooded murder of her devoted husband , were sensational without being plotted or shoot with an eye to involving an audience . |
| 6 | I introduced your name in the conversation , said I was your Factor , told him that you were in the Lakes for pleasure but also with an eye to acquiring property , etc. , etc . |
| 7 | With an eye to reducing its staff level in France by between 6% and 7% , 800 to 900 people , this year , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has announced it will open a period of voluntary departure between May 1 and June 30 ( CI No 2,118 ) . |
| 8 | With an eye to attracting ‘ bigger name ’ stars onto the show , Verity Lambert saw an opening for Francis as Nero and asked Spooner to write his personality into the scripts . |
| 9 | With an eye to cutting costs , AT&T Microelectronics and Japan 's NEC are jointly to develop basic technologies to make new generations of chips . |
| 10 | These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax . |
| 11 | Before Bodo arrived I 'd already decided in favour of the gentler angled approach through the rip from the left , with an eye on building up gradually from the small to the not-so-small . |
| 12 | MR TREVOR Clay , retired general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing , was yesterday awarded £8,000 High Court libel damages over a Daily Mirror story , which he claimed accused him of working ‘ with an eye on getting a plum job with the Government ’ . |
| 13 | Their primary motive was ‘ for the good of the company ’ : that meant creating more efficiency in the productive process , cutting costs , not making unnecessary repairs , and so on , all with an eye on improving the corporate 's profitable position . |
| 14 | Chief executive Paul Hanson , with an eye on falling consumer demand in the UK , hopes to double exports by the end of the financial year . |