Example sentences of "eye for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have ever watched a dog running across a field , unless he is tracking something , he will often run with his nose in the air , using his eyes for long-distance viewing , but as soon as he reaches an area of interest , down goes the nose , far closer to the ground . |
| 2 | He had reined his horse to a stop and was searching Menzies ' eyes for complete agreement — for more , for energy to carry it out . |
| 3 | Pick an open , clear piece of water and close your eyes for small intervals which you gradually make longer at each attempt . |
| 4 | One in the eye for progressive educationalists , after a hard battle ? |
| 5 | The knowledge obtained from solutions that are put into the eye for other purposes is considerably valuable . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Stanley Morison , responsible for the typographical identity of The Times in the 1930s , was not an adroit penman — he simply had an unerring eye for good typefaces and strong composition . |
| 7 | Confidence men always have an eye for extra exits . |
| 8 | I have waited hours here , usually on the north side , until called forward to the ferry boat and never regretted the delay ; anyone with an eye for impressive beauty will not regard time spent at Kylesku as wasted . |
| 9 | If it catches on it will certainly be one in the eye for greedy undertakers — after all , you never see a poor one , do you ? ’ |
| 10 | With an eye for contemporary styling Verity Lambert agreed that Susan Foreman should have specially-cut hair , radically different from the back-combed , upswept or pony-tail styles of her early Sixties class mates . |
| 11 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 12 | And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention . |
| 13 | Here only a very few unusual men are retained in the public eye for prolonged periods . |
| 14 | Dulcie Howes , who wrote that comment to me , had told the Cape Town critic Denis Hatfield at the time that John would never really be a dancer but that he had ‘ such a remarkable eye for balletic pattern , an imagination so vivid , and such an ear for music in relation to movement ’ that she was certain he would make a choreographer . |
| 15 | His best pictures have a telling eye for multi-layered detail . |
| 16 | The magnificence of the houses the merchants built for themselves show that they had an eye for artistic effect as well as financial security . |
| 17 | But it was Eadmer , with his keen eye for significant detail , who noted two points omitted by Osbern : he observed that , as the monks stood round the sufferer , each of the two groups spoke a language which the other could not understand ; and also he remarked that things went more smoothly after this event . |
| 18 | Physical ferocity and an eye for human responses — the latter fostered by my mother — did the rest . |
| 19 | Tozer 's writings are invariably simple in style and straightforward in substance , but he had a direct appreciation of landscape , which carries its own charm , and , like his friend Edward Lear [ q.v. ] , a sharp eye for human foibles and vanities revealed by the activities of local officials in the Turkish provinces . |
| 20 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 21 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 22 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |