Example sentences of "be [adj] to the [adj] eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 2 | In the intestine Oe. columbianum L4 migrate deep into the mucosa , provoking an inflammatory response with the formation of nodules which are visible to the naked eye . |
| 3 | It should be visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch ( without a tail ) two to three times the size of the Moon , and moving at a relatively high speed — by about its own diameter every hour . |
| 4 | For John Simon , it was ‘ so puny a play that if it were not extended in all directions by Dustin Hoffman 's life-giving performance , it would barely be discernible to the naked eye . |
| 5 | The we-group of the Chewong , however , extends into the domains of non-human beings , that is , it includes all those things in the environment such as trees , stones , rivers , mountains , which are supposed to have consciousness — and thus in Chewong parlance are ‘ people ’ ( beri ) , as well as the large number of beings who are said to exist , but who are invisible to the ordinary eye . |
| 6 | Many of these parasites are invisible to the naked eye . |
| 7 | It LOOKS like an ordinary card , but has differences that are invisible to the naked eye . |
| 8 | Because they are so faint , not a single one is visible to the naked eye . |
| 9 | This stripe , which gives rise to the alternative name for this area , the striate cortex , is visible to the naked eye in sections of the human brain . |
| 10 | It is a majestic ciliated sphere , the largest known sperm of any organism , plant or animal , so big that a single one is visible to the naked eye . |
| 11 | Although very little of the red underpainting is discernible to the naked eye in the finished portrait , its effect is perceptible in the freshness of the skin tones and the convincing wholesomeness of the flesh . |
| 12 | In Aragon , as in Valencia , there were great agrarian contrasts , emphasizing the historic contrast between the mountain core of the old kingdom and the reconquered territories where Arab influence , even today , is apparent to the architectural eye . |
| 13 | Although infra-red light is invisible to the human eye , it can be detected by special photographic film ; in general , the amount of infra-red light reflected from a plant depends on its ripeness , so that infra-red photographs can produce good-contrast images of crop marks that may be hardly visible on ordinary photographic film or to the eye . |