Example sentences of "the eye at " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the science of optics , light travelling from objects enters the eyes at differing angles according to distance ; the further away an object is , the more nearly parallel are the light rays from it . |
| 2 | They were said to be fearless swordsmen and able to shoot a man between the eyes at a hundred paces . |
| 3 | Place your forefinger on the body ridge under the eyes at the inner corners and repeat the pressing movements , a little more lightly this time , until you reach the outer corner . |
| 4 | Damage to the eyes at around 1 Sv . |
| 5 | The only small quibbles I have are the shape of the zip pullers , which sometimes dig into hips when a rucksack 's carried , the lack of a horizontal chest pocket to take a map ( very useful when navigating in poor weather ) and a wired hood , which would stop it falling over the eyes at inconvenient moments . |
| 6 | When , however , it is exposed in the left field alone , the tendency to move the eyes at the beginning of the line ( presumably the dominant one ) would be in conflict with the tendency to move the eyes from left to right . |
| 7 | Now if you just pull in a little bit too close , it 's a natural reaction of the body to direct the eyes at the vehicle which is going to cause you the danger . |
| 8 | I remember looking him straight in the eye at this point in order to try and fathom the motives behind his proposal . |
| 9 | The 47-year-old rocker 's glasses caught the eye at a glittering showbiz charity ball in Hollywood — where he and Rachel were a focus of attention all night . |
| 10 | Eye contact is one strong means of signalling , and in British culture ( in very general terms ) it can often be observed that speakers look away during their turn and then look their interlocutor in the eye at the end . |
| 11 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 12 | We looked each other in the eye at 5′ 10″ . |
| 13 | Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop . |
| 14 | This is linked to long and short-sightedness , in that it 's the result of a malformation of the eye — in this case , an uneven curving of the cornea ( the covering over the front of the eye ) which means light enters the eye at the wrong angle . |
| 15 | Invariably , good quality prints will show up more detail than was apparent to the observer viewing the CL , because of fatigue and insensitivity of the eye at low light levels . |
| 16 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 17 | Aquatic initiative , resuscitation and first aid , line throwing and swim and tow … it 's in all four disciplines that marks are given in competition , and Smith and Miss Stead were n't the only medal-winners to catch the eye at Queen 's . |
| 18 | Catching the eye at Brough is newcomer Bretts Dream Girl , which has won two of her four races since arriving from Ireland . |