Example sentences of "[art] eye for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two . |
| 2 | And one famous quote during a court case he presided over was : ‘ The old law of the eye for the eye and a tooth and for a tooth has no place in civilised society . ’ |
| 3 | It was another smack in the eye for the establishment . |
| 4 | He did not look like a wolf , but he did look like a young man with an eye for a girl , and techniques that would bear watching . |
| 5 | Small-town solicitor takes lid off global scams Audrey Gillan meets the man with an eye for a con and finds the Salvation Army is one of a long list of potential fraud targets |
| 6 | He was committed to middle-of-the-road filmmaking , which he defined as ‘ escape entertainment of pleasant people in pleasant surroundings doing pleasant things ’ , had an eye for a subject that could be exploited , and was fascinated by stardom . |
| 7 | An eye for a profit |
| 8 | ‘ That should prove I 've an eye for a winner . ’ |
| 9 | She always had an eye for a bargain and was very astute in her shopping . |
| 10 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 11 | There was the same mission to conquer land with gold replacing milk and honey , a wagon-train exodus , a plethora of heroes with a policy of taking an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth . |
| 12 | Request : that eternal campaigner for true justice was asked if he would consider writing a foreword for a book titled ‘ An Eye For An Eye , A Tooth For A Tooth ’ . |
| 13 | Then , through a loudspeaker , the mother told cheering neighbours in Palermo , Sicily : ‘ An eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth and nudity for nudity . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then you are familiar with the saying ‘ an eye for an eye . ’ ’ |
| 15 | An eye for an eye . |
| 16 | The Old Testament ius talionis ( an eye for an eye , a life for a life , etc. ) is one example of such a tariff , but only one : a retributive tariff could be considerably more lenient than this , as long as the proportionate relationship between crimes and punishments was retained . |
| 17 | ‘ An eye for an eye ? |
| 18 | The reciprocity usually takes the form of direct equivalence : an eye for an eye , a glass of beer for a glass of beer . |
| 19 | However , in the Old Testament , it states ‘ an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth ’ . |
| 20 | An eye for an eye , Zoe . |
| 21 | The docks , the University of London , the theatre in the age of Kean , the London art world , Rudolph Ackermann and British commerce are all examined in the marvellous introductory essays by Simon Jervis , Ian Jenkins , Celina Fox and others which combine detailed research with an eye for the smell and feel of the city . |
| 22 | Even those who had never met her could tell from her letters and articles that she had something special ; an eye for the kind of colourful details people would remember . |
| 23 | To have a Coronation Street star and Cilla Black introducing your rallies showed an eye for the bathetic . |