Example sentences of "[art] [adj] eye [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Shadows drifted past him like fronds , dappled with refracted sunlight , tied with thin streams of bubbles as he sank slowly into the welcoming depths of the ocean , under the incurious eye of the great Whale … .
2 Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki .
3 A children 's ophthalmic surgeon , David Calver , performed a two-hour operation on the right eye of the younger girl , Sara Shadoo , who lives in London .
4 TTX ( 0.5μl TTX ; 10 -4 M ) was injected slowly over about 2min with a 5μl Hamilton syringe through a 34 gauge needle into the right eye of ether-anaesthetized P15 ( a ) or P7 ( b ) rats as previously described .
5 TTX was injected into the right eye of P10 rats and both optic nerves were examined 2 days later , as described in Fig. 1 .
6 One of the citations succinctly sums it up : ‘ It is the Private Eye of the food industry : not always welcome , sometimes sensational , but very necessary all the same ’ .
7 the weak eye of Pierre
8 in the dry eye of Bolkonsky
9 In judging a living thing , other imponderables also come into play , which only the trained eye of an experienced judge can correctly assess within the framework of the total picture .
10 In fact , tuition and advice are available in a multitude of sports under the trained eye of friendly , experienced coaches .
11 Meanwhile , under the careful eye of the housekeeper , the servants were busily making preparations for the master 's homecoming .
12 Public longing for such an idol of beauty may help to create temporary goddesses , seen in the popular eye as representatives of the Queen of Beauty .
13 She was silently amused at the forms the approaches took : the clumsy grope from Bill Muggeridge ; the galumphing puppyishness of Corbett Farraday ; the appraising eye of Tom Tedder ( for either loyalty to Miss Gilberd , or lethargy , prevented anything more tangible ) .
14 I have recently read Laurens van der Post 's ‘ The Dark Eye in Africa ’ .
15 Thus , in the example of the punishment of a one-eyed man who had struck out the eye of another person , the Pharisee would not approve of striking out the remaining eye of the offender , unlike the Sadducee , who would .
16 At last , as I set my knife and fork down , I caught the gloomy eye of my table-companion and ventured to say , ‘ You will be in Geneva tomorrow in time to see this wretched woman brought to justice , I presume ? ’
17 They were safe as long as they remained within the central eye of the storm .
18 Safe in the central eye of the storm , they had ten or fifteen minutes in which to reach the comparative safety of the track leading up through the rain forest to the President 's cabin .
19 Just confirmed for publication in May is John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye with essays by Susan Casteras , Susan Phelps Gordon , Anthony Lacy Gully , Robert Hewison , George Landow and Christopher Newall .
20 the white eye of the moon ?
21 Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ .
22 the cold eye of Dolohov
23 This pattern of results suggests that no uncrossed pathway from the left eye to the damaged left side of the brain is functional to elicit fixation shifts .
24 Yet if Leonard 's fleet feet were still part of his youthfulness , there were signs of bodily frailty ; he bore the only real wounds of the contest , a cut to the lip sustained early on and a more serious one over the left eye in the 11th round .
25 On the retina of the left eye in 1a , the ( inverted ) image of the left-hand edge is shown as taller than that of the right-hand edge , to reflect the fact that the left-hand edge is nearer that eye , and therefore subtends , at its nodal point , a distinctly larger angle than the right-hand edge .
26 Here he sits in front of one of his own paintings which , by using double exposure , appears through the left eye in which he was going blind .
27 Considering each member of the series of hypothetical Ks connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them was made available by random mutation of its predecessor ?
28 Considering each member of the series of Xs connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them worked sufficiently well that it assisted the survival and reproduction of the animals concerned ?
29 Considering each member of the series of Ks connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them worked sufficiently well that it assisted the survival and reproduction of the animals concerned ?
30 The human eye in its best years has a maximum angular resolution of one minute of arc .
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