Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 2 | There was nothing valuable in it , though it seemed a great deal in the eyes of these people . ’ |
| 3 | But there was no light in the eyes of the girl that came home to me that night . |
| 4 | So what makes a good bedroom in the eyes of hoteliers and what do their guests expect ? |
| 5 | However , there may be an action in passing-off if this is likely to cause confusion in the eyes of the buying public . |
| 6 | Once these kinds of needs are satisfied , the theory suggests that individual motivations will be shaped by behaviour that is associated with : The need to gain self-esteem in the eyes of other people , for instance through the possession of prestigious objects , taking expensive holidays , making donations to charity , etc. * the need to know and understand what is going on around them . |
| 7 | They bring respectability to industry in the eyes of young people and allow them to see that work can be rewarding , interesting and challenging . |
| 8 | If all goes according to plan he will hold the public sector borrowing requirement to £35 billion in the current year , rising to £50 billion in 1993-94 , but the proportion of gross domestic product should stabilise at no more than 8 per cent , and fall slowly back to around 4 per cent by 1997 — still an alarmingly large figure in the eyes of some City analysts . |
| 9 | Having said this , the question still remains as to whether such records , particularly where associated with unfamiliar curricular approaches , can successfully challenge the status of external examination certificates in the eyes of the world at large , especially parents and employers . |
| 10 | The trials of the underground press in the early seventies discredited obscenity law in the eyes of a new generation of jurors , and acquittals of hard-core pornography soon followed . |
| 11 | The result was to be a House of Commons with a greater legitimacy in the eyes of MPs and electors and one with an ability to assert itself in its relationship with government . |
| 12 | Andrew , England 's most capped fly-half with 50 , remains first-choice in the eyes of manager Geoff Cooke but Barnes has applied increasing pressure with a string of excellent displays , including last Saturday 's blinder for the Barbarians against Australia . |
| 13 | For most of her time in Canada , Rita has been a non-person in the eyes of the state . |
| 14 | In Pale , their political headquarters , Bosnia 's Serbs congratulated each other on once again throwing sand in the eyes of the world . |
| 15 | With a glimmer of self-preservation I began to reason that to be a martyr to an unwanted marriage was one thing , whereas to look like a fool in the eyes of all the world was another . |
| 16 | Lydia 's stubbornness would make Betty look a fool in the eyes of the doctor , so she got cross . |
| 17 | Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful . |
| 18 | This gives it more relevance in the eyes of head teachers . |
| 19 | Christmas is for most of us a magical moment in the year when we gather with our families , sing familiar carols and see the delight in the eyes of the children as they open their stockings and presents . |
| 20 | A nursing mother sees her reflection in the eyes of the infant in her arms . |
| 21 | A focus upon changing aspects of a rapidly developing local community embracing social , technological and ecological perspectives had a number of advantages in the eyes of the library committee : ( 1 ) they wanted to begin something that was ongoing and to which resources could be added ; |
| 22 | This belief may serve to minimize and underestimate the experience of anxiety in the eyes of the referring agent and the client , the latter becoming quickly dispirited , losing faith in themselves , the specific technique , or the skill of the therapist . |
| 23 | Blake returned to London a hero in the eyes of MI6 but the secret nature of his work precluded any official recognition . |
| 24 | This frightened me but seemed to make me a hero in the eyes of the Dutch who broke out into a fever of winks and jerked-up thumbs and V-signs all round me . |
| 25 | As early as January 1961 a US Department of State report on Cuba argued that ‘ Castro , aware of [ growing discontent within Cuba ] and of the lack of decisive support by the Soviet countries is endeavouring , through his acts of provocation , to create a crisis against Cuba that will compel the Soviets to support him and will restore him to the position of anti-imperialist hero in the eyes of his own people and the Latin American masses ’ ( US Declassified , 1982 , 001697 ) . |
| 26 | We could hardly wish for a more graphic portrayal of the son who is tied to his domineering , aggressive mother by ties of love , but who has to be a hero in the eyes of the world to prove his masculine worth . |
| 27 | That came after the unlucky trio ate Chinese food in the team hotel the night before — an unavoidable accident of fate in the eyes of the England team . |
| 28 | It has been rightly said that these remarkable statements can only be seen as Hitler 's wish to make manifest his work in the eyes of history . |
| 29 | investigate the coincidental disappearance of some famous jewels from the Prado and of a young American tourist in Spain in The Eyes of Montezuma . |
| 30 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |