Example sentences of "eye of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the agreement is sustained by threats of market sanctions rather than a binding contract makes it no less explicit , at least in the eyes of antitrust law . |
| 2 | But it is not only the speech , it is also the simplicity of the vocabulary , as it is seen through the eyes of Finn . |
| 3 | In conclusion I would say that the book itself is good and the style is brilliant , as you are able to see things so well through the eyes of Finn . |
| 4 | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue , black , silver , green and white had been designed to disguise a boat 's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains , so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas . |
| 5 | He smiles with the familiar grin I know so well , but this time I see those eyes of loneliness , as if there 's something no-one could understand , hidden by his visage of cheerfulness . |
| 6 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 7 | I tell ya , it threw me having those tormented eyes of Clift staring just above me . ’ |
| 8 | Brain-dead beauties with lips that gibber , lips that quiver , lips that mushroom to the size of minor continents before the startled eyes of glamour photographers . |
| 9 | Brain-dead beauties with lips that gibber , lips that quiver , lips that mushroom to the size of minor continents before the startled eyes of glamour photographers . |
| 10 | Originally scheduled for the United States in October , the switch has been made because of the current state of anarchy in American offshore politics , particularly in the eyes of championship promoter , Mario Revenna , of Italy . |
| 11 | Developed and designed by Austin , Texas-based Ross , under the watchful eyes of Sun Microsystems Inc engineers , the superscalar , superpipelined HyperSparc begins life as a 66.7MHz unit delivering 70 SPECmarks ( 55 SPECint , 64 SPECfp ) , 133 MIPS and 32 MFLOPS , compared to the 50 SPECmarks of Texas ' initial 40MHz Viking CPU . |
| 12 | The new economic freedom in Russia and today 's new private capital needs not only to grow , but to find some moral refinement and justification in the eyes of society . |
| 13 | However irksome it may be to have inaccuracies published about one 's life or behaviour — dates mis-stated , non-existent meetings described , and qualifications mis-attributed — there must be a " sting " in the falsehood which reflects discredit in the eyes of society . |
| 14 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 15 | She is a more acceptable creature in the eyes of society than the domineering Mrs. Proudie . |
| 16 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 17 | Then he lay there gasping and looking into the unreadable eyes of Isay . |
| 18 | It is not surprising , given the political climate of the 1980s , that there have been moves to improve the administration of public services by introducing management techniques more often associated ( in the eyes of government supporters at least ) with private enterprise . |
| 19 | ‘ In the eyes of government officials , therefore , ’ he says , ‘ businessmen do not appear simply as the representatives of a special interest , as representatives of interest groups do . |
| 20 | But in the eyes of government departments , trying to meet the goal of ‘ clean water for all by 1990 ’ , those villages have had their share . |
| 21 | Galbraith has described the denomination of corporate enterprise as ‘ private enterprise ’ as ‘ a formula for hiding public business behind the cloak of corporate privacy ’ ; it is a device for diverting the eyes of government and the general public ‘ from things like executive compensation , lobbying , political activity by executives and employees , profits , and bureaucratic error or nonfeasance ’ . |
| 22 | A company must be predominant in the eyes of decision makers . ’ |
| 23 | As the eyes of incredulity |
| 24 | Like the rest of the water-borne world , they can see parts of the spectrum invisible to the eyes of land creatures . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the process , certain individuals were made to pay a price , if only in the eyes of posterity . |
| 27 | There is yet another figure whose importance , in the eyes of posterity , was to be distorted and diminished . |
| 28 | More feels this presence of the past when ‘ we look into the eyes of love ’ and obtain ‘ for one supercelestial moment — the glimpse of a reality never before imagined , and never again to be revealed ’ . |
| 29 | As he has no theoretical framework and no fundamental economic background , he is limited essentially to extrapolation of short-term clusters of newsworthy items , as seen through the eyes of newspaper editors and reporters . |
| 30 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |