Example sentences of "[adj] to the naked eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | The signs we can amuse ourselves by locating in a Daguerreotype under extreme magnification are , in the 1980s , all too abundantly clear to the naked eye . |
| 2 | But the negatives , each no bigger than his little fingernail , were totally meaningless to the naked eye . |
| 3 | The mite is just visible to the naked eye and feeds on honey bees and their grubs by sucking their body fluids . |
| 4 | But many kinds of bacteria in nature form elaborate colonies , often quite visible to the naked eye , in which different individuals perform different functions , so that the whole colony functions as if it were a single organism . |
| 5 | Because the creatures of the plankton individually are small , they are not always visible to the naked eye . |
| 6 | Because they are so faint , not a single one is visible to the naked eye . |
| 7 | Protozoa are much larger than bacteria or viruses , although still not visible to the naked eye . |
| 8 | However , some cells , like the large eggs of frogs , are easily visible , and the human egg is just visible to the naked eye . |
| 9 | The human and mouse eggs are about one tenth of a millimetre in diameter and are just visible to the naked eye . |
| 10 | Alcock saw this as another opportunity to produce valuable results , but first , he would have to learn the stars down to magnitude eight , over six times fainter than those visible to the naked eye . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In order to make a weekly sum of money even dimly visible to the naked eye , she had to translate fifty pages a week , a drudgery she tried to regard as ineluctable as brushing her teeth or washing the kitchen floor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The equivalent of larval stages are completed within an egg capsule so that the young emerge at the crawling stage when they are easily visible to the naked eye and can be fed in captivity . |
| 16 | Here was I absolutely totally visible to the naked eye , and your friend looked right through me . |
| 17 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 18 | With continued cell proliferation and development of new crypts , colonies enlarge , become visible to the naked eye , then ultimately coalesce to restore the mucosal layer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Vis , only visible , not visible to the naked eye . |
| 21 | Smoothing by an arithmetic procedure can sometimes , however , reveal patterns not immediately obvious to the naked eye . |
| 22 | Well , it can sometimes reveal patterns not immediately obvious to the naked eye ; an example of this is shown in exercise 9.3 . |
| 23 | ‘ It was n't obvious to the naked eye , but we could tell . |
| 24 | Though nothing was more obvious to the naked eye than that the members of craft unions were likely to be the best , the most intelligent , the most skilled workers , the myth of the work-shy outsider exploiting simple-minded but basically sturdy operatives was indestructible . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All the internal organs looked pretty normal to the naked eye . |
| 28 | They 're highly sophisticated infra-red beams , virtually undetectable to the naked eye . |
| 29 | Starring with the diminutive Bob Hoskins , she lets her breasts bounce on top of his head in a blur of movement that passes almost unnoticed to the naked eye . |
| 30 | 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 . |