Example sentences of "[art] eye [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The mass of silver hair framed a perfectly formed face , though the lips seemed thinner , the eyes above the high cheek bones cold and unsmiling .
2 ‘ You 'll not try to keep me ? ’ he said warningly , looking her in the eyes without a smile .
3 It has been shown in some animal species that there are nerves running from the eyes to the SCN .
4 Screw the hooks into the trellis , attaching the eyes to the wall or fence .
5 One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable .
6 Broad red lines of colour run from the nose over the eyes , into the red of the dorsal area , and from the mouth under the eyes to the pectoral fins .
7 Delicately placed on a slight ridge , left-centre and midway between gatehouse and river , the surviving columns of the forum balanced , lifting the eyes to the exactly right focal point in a sky of scintillating , tearful blue feathered with airy clouds .
8 Look at the person — maintain contact with the eyes for as long as is comfortable , look away to the mouth when it becomes uncomfortable , then return to the eyes .
9 Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two .
10 Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze .
11 Jacko looked him in the eyes for the first time since they 'd met .
12 Shocked , she looked him fully in the eyes for the first time .
13 So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light .
14 However , the patterns used in these studies were extremely coarse and could probably be discriminated by developing tricks like scanning the eyes across the stimuli and judging how much the brightness changes during the course of the scan .
15 In other words , on the divorce question the Roman catholic clerical leadership were still using their joint authority , which is legitimate in the eyes of the majority in the Southern state , to press into civil legislation their views of public morality , and to use the informed conscience of the faithful as the primary vehicle .
16 From Europe , we present the films that have caught the eyes of critics and audiences at the major European film festivals .
17 A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War .
18 I looked up and deep into the eyes of the cafe proprietor .
19 The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day .
20 We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism !
21 The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled .
22 Who shall be higher in the eyes of Heaven .
23 And it takes a lot to light up the eyes of a man dying of tuberculosis .
24 They also opened the eyes of the audience to the endless possibilities of expressing meaning through dance .
25 His Spanish dance has therefore many authentic features seen through the eyes of a master classical teacher .
26 Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron .
27 This is true , to a lesser extent , of all forms of imaginative writing , but poetry is the most obviously governed by convention and genre , and in the eyes of both the Russian Formalists and of non-literary readers the most likely to display linguistic deformation .
28 In the sweetness of victory , Mr Andreotti 's Roman cohorts have forgotten that they are mortal and , in the eyes of many churchmen , their greed and arrogance now risk bringing Catholic politics into disrepute .
29 After 1997 , their ‘ British Nationals ( Overseas ) ’ passports would confer no real benefit since , in the eyes of the Chinese government , they would be Chinese citizens .
30 Maronite collaboration with the French — and the support for a Maronite state which later came from Israel — contaminated the community in the eyes of its opponents .
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