Example sentences of "eye for [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention .
6 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 .
7 His best pictures have a telling eye for multi-layered detail .
8 The magnificence of the houses the merchants built for themselves show that they had an eye for artistic effect as well as financial security .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather .
12 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 .
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