Example sentences of "a eye to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Run on the pavements with an eye to what lurks in gateway and garden . |
| 2 | Argument on each layer tends to have half an eye to what is at issue on the others . |
| 3 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 4 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 5 | Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel . |
| 6 | Out of necessity , publishers have an eye to their profits and neither a work 's inclusion in a catalogue or collection , nor instant popularity , guarantees its suitability . |
| 7 | It does not amount to an argument that staff should be conducting research as such ; merely that if they are engaged in it , there is an advantage to it being undertaken with an eye to their teaching commitments . |
| 8 | All bookshops with an eye to their image have events nowadays , although the competition is tough going . |
| 9 | They demanded dramatically , with an eye to its propaganda value , ‘ the break-up of the Poor Law ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ But the former River Authorities knew this and shut an eye to it . ’ |