Example sentences of "invisible [prep] [art] [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sniperscopes rely on infra-red radiation , invisible to the human eye , to detect the enemy . |
| 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 | And yet another 10 per cent of stars are white dwarfs , dim stars the size of Earth and all invisible to the naked eye . |
| 7 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 8 | Many of these parasites are invisible to the naked eye . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The wall opposite the door , constructed of rows of teak slats , contained two seamless sliding doors , invisible to the naked eye , which could only be activated by miniature sonic transmitters . |
| 11 | He saw that there were many stars invisible to the naked eye . |
| 12 | Protozoans are effectively invisible to the naked eye , and flukes nearly so , but other external parasites are all too-readily seen . |
| 13 | Very simple geometrical forms exist in nature out there but most of them are ordinarily invisible to the naked eye . |
| 14 | My cycling was so fast , it seemed , that I was almost invisible to the naked eye . |
| 15 | If you take a time exposure of the stars with a static camera you just get streaks , because of the Earth 's movement , and I should make the device follow the stars at the correct speed , you can get an awful lot of stars that 's completely invisible to the naked eye . |
| 16 | It LOOKS like an ordinary card , but has differences that are invisible to the naked eye . |