Example sentences of "to our eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of Peter Rabbit hanging up in an old-fashioned butcher 's window brings tears to our eyes , while pretty pink portions prepared and hacked by the supermarket cause no such qualms . |
| 2 | But in a strange way the desperate state of the house opened up its history and construction to our eyes : in an eighteenth-century building everything is usually concealed behind plasterwork . |
| 3 | a handkerchief to our eyes . |
| 4 | Colour learning , for instance , has all the marks of associative learning : bees have an innate program which recognises flowers by their dark centres and light petals ( as seen in ultraviolet light — these markings are usually invisible to our eyes ) . |
| 5 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 6 | Lieb puts it well when he observes that the facade inscription on St Michael Berg am Laim — ‘ This is the Lord 's doing ; it is marvellous to our eyes ’ — paid homage not only to the King of kings , but also to the all powerful Josef Clemens , prince-bishop of Cologne . |
| 7 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | He therefore pays attention to some of its most spectacular and to our eyes irrational forms , such as a widespread castration complex and symbolic inversion . |
| 9 | In this case a trenchant critique of Aristotelian orthodoxy was both motivated and ( to our eyes ) deflected by religious concerns . |
| 10 | The most bizarre of all these techniques , at least to our eyes , prejudiced as we are to a mammalian way of doing things , is that practised by Rhinoderma , a tiny frog that Darwin found in Southern Chile . |
| 11 | The boeuf Gardiane which followed brought tears to our eyes ; we had been overwrought and dropping with fatigue , and while the food we had already eaten had cheered and comforted us , it was n't until the cover was taken off the dish of beef stew and we smelt the wine and the garlic and the rich juices and saw the little black olives and the branches of wild thyme which had scented the stew laid in a little network over the meat , that the tension vanished . |
| 12 | Their unhesitating assumption that they contain all life as much as they are contained by it has helped them forge what to our eyes is an almost supernatural intimacy with their forests and creatures . |
| 13 | The red shift of some freshwater fish is so extreme that they can see light invisible to our eyes . |
| 14 | These ambiguities in the narrative ( which perhaps find some analogy in the conventions of tragedy as composed at Athens in this time ) correspond to the ambiguities in the spatial conception , oddly ( to our eyes ) combined with the interest in naturalism . |
| 15 | And we 're up to our eyes at the garage just now . ’ |
| 16 | At the beginning of the century , chemistry and physics had still been fairly cheap : the expensive sciences were astronomy and exploration with its associated natural history , the Humboldtian programme ; but by the latter half of the century physics and chemistry , though still to our eyes heavily dependent on sealing wax and string , were becoming the big science of the day . |
| 17 | The blue component of incoming solar radiation is scattered so severely that it appears to our eyes to be coming from the entire sky . |