Example sentences of "[adj] to the [adj] 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 | With straining eyes he watched small fragments , meaningless to the lay eye , delicately extricated from the tangle of earth about the roots and the soft turf beneath them , cased in plastic , and labelled . |
| 3 | But the negatives , each no bigger than his little fingernail , were totally meaningless to the naked eye . |
| 4 | This large and varied group of arthropods includes the giants of the phylum , as well as tiny spiders hardly visible to the unaided eye . |
| 5 | The flashes of light average out to a magnitude of 24.5 , making the pulsar one of the faintest objects ever detected , about one hundred-millionth as faint as the dimmest stars visible to the unaided eye . |
| 6 | Nationwide says , ‘ Over time , properties develop minor defects , which are often not visible to the untrained eye , but which , if left unattended , can grow into major problems requiring costly repairs . |
| 7 | The mite is just visible to the naked eye and feeds on honey bees and their grubs by sucking their body fluids . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Because the creatures of the plankton individually are small , they are not always visible to the naked eye . |
| 10 | Because they are so faint , not a single one is visible to the naked eye . |
| 11 | Protozoa are much larger than bacteria or viruses , although still not visible to the naked eye . |
| 12 | However , some cells , like the large eggs of frogs , are easily visible , and the human egg is just visible to the naked eye . |
| 13 | The human and mouse eggs are about one tenth of a millimetre in diameter and are just visible to the naked eye . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Here was I absolutely totally visible to the naked eye , and your friend looked right through me . |
| 21 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Vis , only visible , not visible to the naked eye . |
| 25 | Smoothing by an arithmetic procedure can sometimes , however , reveal patterns not immediately obvious to the naked eye . |
| 26 | Well , it can sometimes reveal patterns not immediately obvious to the naked eye ; an example of this is shown in exercise 9.3 . |
| 27 | ‘ It was n't obvious to the naked eye , but we could tell . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The costs of transporting patients to the hospital and hospital running costs are not applicable to the mobile eye unit . |
| 30 | 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 . |