Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] eyes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 2 | Divorce is wrong in the eyes of God ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You know it 's wrong in the eyes of the world , do n't you ? |
| 4 | For one thing , they often feel that they must hide their condition in order not to appear foolish in the eyes of others . |
| 5 | There had been that unfortunate controversy in the local Press with the manager of the Palladium , when he had been compelled , under pressure from his bishop , to issue a statement to the effect that all films were not necessarily harmful in the eyes of the Church . |
| 6 | But presumably if the ‘ good ’ schools became , as a result of their location , their examination results , or by some other means , identifiable in the eyes of parents , then these schools would have to become selective . |
| 7 | One possible alternative means of raising revenue , a graduated income tax , was advocated largely by socialists and as such tainted in the eyes of the main political parties . |
| 8 | A company must be predominant in the eyes of decision makers . ’ |
| 9 | Are there decisions which could be classified as popular or unpopular in the eyes of the most important senior judges or the Lord Chancellor ? |
| 10 | To refer once again to the unpredicted and possibly counter-productive side effects of the legal reform movement , the effect on the ‘ rules ’ question has been at most unfortunate in the eyes of many basic grade staff . |
| 11 | This policy profusion and confusion accompanies frenetic lobbying , negotiating and attempts to look good in the eyes of numerous local and international policy-making groups . |
| 12 | I 'm , in my own mind , I 'm sure this is due to a proliferation of working parties , extra committee meetings a , a , and seminars , and I personally think it 's typical of when your party get anywhere near control that there is always more talking and less action , but I do believe that we , we , we 're , we are not looking good in the eyes of the public in this overspending of our own allowances . |
| 13 | Details of the registers would be available before the bill reached the committee stage but he wanted them to contain enough detail to be wholly credible in the eyes of the public . |
| 14 | In 1801 he became famous in the eyes of the general public by locating the exact position of the newly discovered ( and subsequently lost ! ) planet Ceres , this from very little information and where the best astronomers had failed . |
| 15 | The votes of the minority have not counted as the clear expression of a minority opinion ; they have not counted at all in the eyes of the majority except as evidence of Catholic disloyalty to the Northern semi-state . |
| 16 | Modern scientific knowledge can be used by such societies and Rolt gives two guiding principles for the use of technology : ‘ That mechanical methods should only be employed in work provided the qualitative result achieved is better in the eyes of both maker and user ’ ; and ‘ That no man ( sic ) should make any use of a machine or a scientific process unless he possess a comprehensive knowledge of its principle , function and purpose , and is already skilled in the use to which it is to be applied ’ . |
| 17 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 18 | He says we ca n't until we 're properly married in the eyes of God as well as man ; he says it 's worth waiting for . |
| 19 | He may be great in the eyes of the world , with his property and wealth , but he has very few friends to attend his funeral and never achieves the only thing he cares about . |
| 20 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 21 | ( And even the most deprived European is rich in the eyes of a citizen of rural Africa , India or South America . ) |
| 22 | ‘ We could never be respectable in the eyes of the world , ’ said Jean , ‘ but that hardly matters . ’ |
| 23 | They are only suffered in such places in order to appear respectable in the eyes of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers ( AFBD ) . |
| 24 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 25 | Such consultancies were seen as being prestigious in the eyes of candidates , having a wider field from which to chose , an extensive research resource immediately to hand , and the largest data banks . |
| 26 | The third and perhaps chief problem related to general degrees is their status , which tends to be lower in the eyes of academics , and perhaps employers , than their academic or professional counterparts . |
| 27 | Who shall be higher in the eyes of Heaven . |
| 28 | The fact is that any so called sport which involves the exhaustion , distress and eventual death of an animal has got to be obscene in the eyes of any human being . |
| 29 | She bound her arms from the shoulder to the elbow with thick cords … she rubbed herself with nettles … [ in her full length hair shirt ] she appeared more glorious in the eyes of God from her having armed it underneath with a great quantity of points of needles to increase her suffering by this ingenious cruelty … |
| 30 | Scots very often appear bleak in the eyes of the English . |