Example sentences of "eye for the main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nagging fears and doubts , as well as a shrewd eye for the main chance , had sent some of their number into other parties to leave behind a group of stalwarts to insist that there was a liberal way out of the dilemma , a middle way . |
| 2 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 3 | But an eye for the main chance and a shrewd business brain have also pushed him along . |
| 4 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ People who always have an eye for the main chance ! |
| 6 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |