Example sentences of "[vb infin] the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , fluorescent light can damage the eye , so if there is a choice of lighting , use ordinary light bulbs . |
| 2 | Do n't cover the eye itself , as it will want to swell , and you will want to be able to see it . |
| 3 | Instead of lawn … ruler-straight path … shrubs ( all of which can be taken in at a single glance , and are as individual as frozen pizzas ) , why not make the eye work ? |
| 4 | Much more rarely , Candida can invade the eye , kidney , liver or brain , doing serious damage . |
| 5 | Unlike the Joie de Vivre , which was intended to soothe and delight the eye , the Demoiselles can hardly have been calculated to please . |
| 6 | Protasov and Litovchenko will catch the eye in Italy . |
| 7 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 8 | Posters and signs may be placed anywhere they will catch the eye of potential customers : on hoardings , walls and windows , on boards outside the shop ; on vehicles and delivery vans ; inside and outside buses . |
| 9 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 10 | If any of the trialists did catch the eye of Glenn Hoddle and his staff , they 'd still need work permits . |
| 11 | If you are uncertain of the type of frame you want to use , or even of the very important role it plays in setting off the finished picture , browsing through the photographs in this book should give you a good idea of the tremendous versatility of frames , and also show you how the correct frame will focus the eye on the design itself , as well as balance all its elements . |
| 12 | I ca n't keep the eye open and I fumble my way to the bathroom to clean my contact lens . |
| 13 | The black sacks full of fetid rubbish that are to be seen in Lambeth do not meet the eye on entering Wandsworth . |
| 14 | This does not mean that speed must be avoided , nor that the unexpected need offend the eye . |
| 15 | Mm , well I mean that 's what they 're gon na do take the eye test charge off and the teeth charge off as soon as they get in , well it 'll all materialize do n't they ? |
| 16 | Large , clear headings should greet the eye with equally clear and brief paragraphs which can be quickly scanned . |
| 17 | When producing an illustration Minton had to be pragmatic : there was a need for clarity , to attract and hold the eye , for a decorative solution that did not conflict with the commercial purpose of the commission . |
| 18 | No human lens , natural or artificial , can match the eye of the net-catching spider , which has an f-number of 0.58 , making it 19 times more sensitive than our eyes . |
| 19 | Should these larvae reach the eye , then they are likely to encyst and cause blindness . |
| 20 | Some of these planes seem to recede away from the eye into shallow depth , but this sensation is always counteracted by a succeeding passage which will lead the eye forward again up on to the picture plane . |
| 21 | This is a garden of average size and main tasks here are to give the design a real feeling of space and movement that will lead the eye away from those awkward boundaries . |
| 22 | Only the crest over the entrance door gave it away and that did n't entertain the eye much , either . |
| 23 | Incidentally , I have used projection television receivers at home for the last 40 years and , possibly their use does not require the eye to be concentrated in one continuous subtended angle , my in eyes in their fourth quarter century still resolve that one minute of arc ! |
| 24 | LADIES in red may get the eye , but they seldom get the guy , says a study into the colours of love . |
| 25 | the suggestion you 're not gon na get the benefit that you know those who not particularly wan na come forward or those of us who shout our mouths off will get the eye of the chairman |
| 26 | ‘ Nah , ’ the wild man broke in , ‘ any more o' that an' she 'll put the eye on yer . ’ |
| 27 | It is truly a sublime glen : you can scarcely allow the eye to leave for a minute the mighty mountain walls on either side ( for some new scar , or crag , or corrie , or leaping cataract is ever being discovered ) , and their charming variegation of shade and tint among the mosses , rock , and grass , or among the heath and heather-bell . |
| 28 | Anything that would grab the eye was jammed together to make the page frantically busy . |
| 29 | An identical combination of light rays will strike the eye of each observer , will be focused on their normal retinas by their normal eye lenses and give rise to similar images . |
| 30 | The organism may infect the eye of the infant with a resulting ‘ sticky eye ’ , which usually develops within 48 hours . |