Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That intervention was by the malice of evil men , ’ said Herluin , roused and fiery of eye . |
| 2 | Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks . |
| 3 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 4 | Quick of eye and sure of foot , she reached the other side safely . |
| 5 | Strikingly olive-green above , with a marked eyestripe ( orange-buff in front and white behind eye ) and white underparts , breast boldly spotted , with a larger blackish smudge on side of neck . |
| 6 | What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ? |
| 7 | He sat on a couch of deerskin , under the awning of his tent , a long , sinewy man in the prime of his powers , forty-eight years old , black of eye and black of hair , but for the first frostings of grey at temple and lip . |
| 8 | You appear somewhat red of face and pink of eye . |
| 9 | Constantinides went on to discuss the permanent disability rate of 18.6–20 per 100 000 children per annum following accidents ( road accidents , recreational accidents , and burns and scalds ) , and the type of disability included brain damage ; deformity ; loss of mobility ; scarring ; and sensory loss mainly due to eye injuries . |
| 10 | People with poor accommodation , due to eye defects or age , have to wear artificial lenses to compensate . |
| 11 | ‘ There are only a handful of these machines around the world , and the only one available for eye tumours in Britain is at Clatterbridge . |
| 12 | For if it was indeed he , he had been beautiful — full of lip and sensuous of eye , and reed-slim he was , six years ago . |
| 13 | Ellen Barkin ( small of eye and thin of lip ) , Jamie Lee Curtis ( bright-eyed but androgynous ) , Anjelica Huston ( body to die for — unforgiving face ) , Bette Midler ( where do I begin ? ) uncurled themselves across screens from LA to Llandudno , playing women who were as sexy and salacious as they were ballsy and bloody-minded . |
| 14 | If the data have been ordered into contigs then the positives should occur in overlapping runs ( Fig 3 ) , and inconsistencies in the data are immediately apparent by eye because all the hybridisations to each clone are visible , including those which do not fit well with the current order of clones and probes . |
| 15 | Six large FedPol offices , steely of expression and watchful of eye . |
| 16 | The images were easily distinguishable by eye and even with the rather crude resolution obtainable with this camera there should be no difficulty in distinguishing them by software . |
| 17 | But the baby , so far as Wendy could see , was in good order , firm of limb , bright of eye , smooth of skin and , once released from its wrapping , extremely lively . |
| 18 | Straight of limb , true of eye , steady and aglow . |
| 19 | Just as it is sensible to place notices in braille at hand level or just above so that they can be easily read with the fingers , so visual material needs to be put up near to eye level if it is to be seen or read without difficulty by all the pupils . |
| 20 | Users are also entitled to eye and eyesight tests and to special spectacles where normal ones can not be used . |