Example sentences of "visible [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Light passes through this to the pupil ( the central hole in the iris ) , the iris itself being composed of circular muscles which are visible as the blue , brown or hazel colour of the eye . |
| 2 | In low conditions a shingle bar is visible between the old and new bridges . |
| 3 | He noticed that although T'zin was wearing the fancy gold coat of the Altun he had no tunic on beneath it , and his bare chest was visible through the unfastened facings . |
| 4 | Now , with only a couple of things left to read , I have suddenly had enough of the miserable food , of the noise — a sort of veech sound — of men sucking their teeth , of the monotonous landscape barely visible through the smoke-fogged window … |
| 5 | There were occasional flickerings of lightning visible through the narrow arrow-slit windows . |
| 6 | ‘ Those beasts visible through the grimy window are all a shade too mythical for my particular taste . ’ |
| 7 | If ovulation has occurred within the past 10 h ( approximately ) the masses of cumulus cells surrounding the eggs will be clearly visible through the thin distended walls of the ampulla . |
| 8 | She crouched down behind a row of freight cars and took in her surroundings : to her right a goods shed , to her left two sets of parallel track and a rusted freight car , its wheels barely visible through the tangled mass of overgrown weeds . |
| 9 | Both the 1431 monument to Bishop Richard Fleming in Lincoln Cathedral and that of 1442 to Sir John Golafre at Fyfield , Buckinghamshire , are of a type known collectively as ‘ cadaver ’ tombs , in which a standard effigy clothed as in life , lies on top of the tomb-chest , with a shrouded , sometimes verminous cadaver visible through the pierced side of the tomb-chest . |
| 10 | The soft pink and green striped duvet-cover on her bed was visible through the open door of her bedroom . |
| 11 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
| 12 | Doyle indicated the tall building , just visible behind the scattered beech and ash trees that clustered at the bottom of every garden , and along the small roadways . |
| 13 | But what the tār does n't realize is that it makes a perfect target for a gun , stuck up there with its pale fur as clearly visible against the dark rock as the moon is in the sky at night . ’ |
| 14 | They were barely visible against the shifting darkness of the clouds . |
| 15 | The problems which Bernie represents are most clearly visible against the patterned backdrop of the Union Jack . |
| 16 | Where this has happened , highly characteristic gnaw marks are visible along the exposed broken surfaces , often penetrating deep into the inner surface of the shafts ( Fig. 1.3 E , F ) . |
| 17 | Quite often , olivine and pyroxene begin to crystallize out early on , so they may be present in the final rock as quite large crystals , up to a centimetre across , many times larger than the crystals surrounding them , and easily visible with the naked eye . |
| 18 | I well remember the occasion when he discovered a brightish nova , just about visible with the naked eye and easily seen with binoculars . |
| 19 | The faintest stars normally visible with the naked eye are of magnitude 6 , and binoculars will go down to at least 8 ; my 20 × 70 pair will reach 9 . |
| 20 | More than a hundred are known , though only three ( Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanæ in the southern sky , and the Hercules globular in the northern ) are clearly visible with the naked eye . |
| 21 | However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight . |
| 22 | It is clearly visible with the naked eye , close to Nu ( 4.5 ) . |
| 23 | Præsepe , nicknamed the Beehive , is one of the finest clusters of its type ; it is easily visible with the naked eye and is well seen with × 7 binoculars , while with × 12 and × 20 it is truly glorious . |
| 24 | M67 is in the field with Alpha ( 4.2 ) ; it is said to be visible with the naked eye , but I have never been able to confirm this , though with binoculars it is very easy indeed . |
| 25 | There is however one splendid open cluster , M41 , which is easily visible with the naked eye and is resolvable with × 20 binoculars ; various individual stars can be seen with lower magnifications . |
| 26 | The Eta Carinæ nebula is visible with the naked eye . |
| 27 | It is easy to find , because it is usually visible with the naked eye at about magnitude 5 , and is in the same binocular field with Beta ; to either side of it are Tau ( 5.1 ) and Sigma ( 4.9 ) , which act as good comparisons , though Tau is of type K and has been suspected of slight variability . |
| 28 | It is easily visible with the naked eye , and is striking in binoculars ; with × 12 there is some resolution of its outer parts , and with × 20 it is seen to be starry . |
| 29 | R Coronæ , in the bowl , is generally well within binocular range , and can just become visible with the naked eye , but when it drops to minimum it may fall to as low as magnitude 15 . |
| 30 | When photographed with adequate equipment it really does recall the outline of the North American continent ; it is dimly visible with the naked eye in the guise of a slightly brighter section of the Milky Way , and binoculars show it clearly as a large region of diffuse nebulosity . |