Example sentences of "[adj] to the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not see the antiquated Gloria combine harvesters or the Transylvanian wheat fields bloodshot with poppies : charming to the eye , but evidence of faltering investment in machinery and decent fertilisers . |
| 2 | Note that UV light can be harmful to the eyes and it is important that the lid of the UV light box is kept firmly closed when the light source is switched on . |
| 3 | To tend the rice shoots all wore broad , mollusk-shaped hats and identical trousers and tunics of black cloth that made men and women indistinguishable to the eyes of the Americans in the car . |
| 4 | A horse in good condition should have a flat back , even a ‘ double spine ’ or ‘ tiger spine ’ ( where the Mesh and muscle is raised on each side of the spine in two ridges ) ; the rump should be rounded ; and the ribs well-covered and not visible to the eye . |
| 5 | Here , the same was applied to Waterford Rough and Waterford Hot Pressed and the difference in colour value is visible to the eye . |
| 6 | Then run your hand across the surface in order to detect any bumps or depressions not visible to the eye . |
| 7 | What was visible to the eye or to the sensor , however , was a path which had come into existence long after the Simonova had vanished along its trajectory . |
| 8 | The radiometer can detect the difference ( very obvious to the eye ) in the leaf area of the plants at these temperatures . |
| 9 | Nevertheless ecology has started with that which is obvious to the eye and is increasingly concerned with what is not . |
| 10 | It looked good to the eye , it felt firm underfoot , the Land Rover had no problems , but the wheelbarrow seemed designed to plough a furrow . |
| 11 | These regions , tedious to the eye , were a continuous market garden with five crops every two years . |
| 12 | A Hoechst spokesman said the fumes were of a concentrated form of sulphuric acid which is irritating to the eyes and throat ; he said it was unclear how much material had leaked or how it had happened . |
| 13 | Goggles : Available either as safety spectacles or fully enclosing goggles they are for use where there is the risk of high speed particle shed or fumes that may be injurious to the eyes . |
| 14 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 15 | The Red Rose and the Rosa Mundi commonly grow from three to four feet high , but seldom exceed that ; but the Damask , Provence and Frankfurt Roses grow to the height of seven or eight feet , so that in planting them , great care should be taken to place their several kinds , according to their various growth , amongst other shrubs , that they may appear beautiful to the eye . |
| 16 | Kisses ascending to the eyes of the sea , |
| 17 | Both in far more pleasant to the eye |
| 18 | Distance , says Berkeley , must be perceived by the mediation of something else for , ‘ being a line directed end-wise to the eye ’ , it is not perceived ‘ of itself ’ . |
| 19 | Make colour 1 any shade you like , but remember that this will be the colour of the design screen you will be working on , so try not to make the colour too violent a shade , as this can be tiring to the eyes . |
| 20 | Probably for that reason as much as any other , the Manchu appearance seemed impossibly alien to the eye . |
| 21 | The most important components of the human eye are a lens and a retina , the latter acting like a screen on which images of objects external to the eye are formed . |
| 22 | The Cruz Twinkick concave [ as it 's known ] is a complex concave , and it 's not just ‘ concave ’ in profile , a very slight rise running through the length of the deck is invisible to the eye but you can feel a more comfortable footlock when you stand on it . |
| 23 | But this alone will not purify your water of waste products that are invisible to the eye . |
| 24 | The imprint is invisible to the eye , but it is shown clearly using the Kirlian technique . |
| 25 | Invisible to the eye , these rays can be picked up by sensitive custom-built detectors . |
| 26 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 27 | Also there was no other way to express her sense of something having arrived from somewhere else , something normally invisible to the eye choosing to put on a human form . |
| 28 | Like the rest of the water-borne world , they can see parts of the spectrum invisible to the eyes of land creatures . |
| 29 | They were close to the eye of the storm . |
| 30 | When visually investigating objects for details , the visually impaired child as a rule ‘ peers close ’ , that is , brings the object close to the eye , or the eye close to the object . |