Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] to the [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where photographs can show things invisible to the unaided eye , they are extremely valuable ; and in the second half of the nineteenth century the camera , a gift of science to society , could be a useful scientific instrument . |
| 2 | The flashes of light average out to a magnitude of 24.5 , making the pulsar one of the faintest objects ever detected , about one hundred-millionth as faint as the dimmest stars visible to the unaided eye . |
| 3 | Through his telescope Galileo observed more things in the heavens than had ever been dreamed of : moons of Jupiter and myriads of stars invisible to the naked eye . |
| 4 | He saw that there were many stars invisible to the naked eye . |
| 5 | We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible . |
| 6 | But in a place like this you 're more likely to turn from grand vacuous profundities to the rich detail around you — to the thriving , rare colony of alpine chickweed , for example , the lacy white delicacy of which brings this grey June landscape alive to the attentive eye . |