Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 40 people have been treated for eye and skin irritation , breathing problems and nausea after being exposed to the spill . |
| 2 | In practice it is enlarged to 60° and obvious distortions around the fringes of the work are adjusted by eye . |
| 3 | Braverman 's view is that work-study engineers are not contributing knowledge by their analysis of others ' work : they are acting as eyes and ears of management to find out on their behalf how quickly a job can be done . |
| 4 | Another advantage is that the file is printable , and can be checked by eye if necessary . |
| 5 | To what extent such metrical methods will be used only in specialized analyses remains to be seen , for as Stewart ( 1954 ) suggests , it may be rather a waste of effort to measure such specimens simply to verify what can so quickly be seen by eye . |
| 6 | Some sites can be detected by eye , with a tell-tale slight depression or different shade of grass pointing you in the right direction . |
| 7 | The gap between him and his pursuers widened ; and at the same moment , though they were invisible and their volley could not be followed by eye or ear , the Welsh archers deployed all along the rim of the forest loosed their shafts together . |
| 8 | Although the height of terraces can be estimated by eye by an experienced observer in closely mapped country to a sufficient degree of accuracy , it is safer to determine the heights instrumentally . |
| 9 | Towards the far end of the chamber there were several robes half hidden by billowing folds of grey clouds , but which seemed to be composed of eyes as she drew nearer . |
| 10 | That is , the intense visual experiences of dreaming during REM sleep are signalled by eye movements because the eyes are actually scanning the images generated by the dream . |
| 11 | For apart from being equipped with eyes , head and body , dolphins and whales bear little outward physical resemblance to ourselves . |
| 12 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 13 | Many were suffering from eye infections , diarrhoea , dehydration and heat exhaustion . |
| 14 | ( 1975 ) analysed the data collected in their experiment with a view to seeing whether more accurate responses were given to verbal questions which were followed by eye movements to the right than to verbal questions eliciting leftward eye movements . |
| 15 | It is placed at eye level with one eye occluded . |
| 16 | The railway slopes uphill when its VP or vanishing point is moved above eye level ; for a downhill slope the VP falls below eye level , EL . |
| 17 | Already programs are being written that will automatically define the amount of white space each character of a new type-face needs in which to breathe , if it is not to look cramped ( at the moment this time-consuming procedure is done by eye ) . |
| 18 | An intensely dutiful , rather dour man , he was plagued by eye troubles and as a result he shunned fashionable society . |
| 19 | The autoradiograph was read by eye . |