Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably for that reason as much as any other , the Manchu appearance seemed impossibly alien to the eye . |
| 2 | Holland was an unbleached linen with a glazed surface and , though slightly less attractive to the eye than bleached linen , had the same properties , with the addition of being water-resistant , an important matter to be taken into account when dead bodies were concerned . |
| 3 | The lush , unique colours that make Rosemary clay so pleasing to the eye , now also please with fittings featuring precision unmatched by traditional manufacturing methods . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both in far more pleasant to the eye |
| 6 | How much more pleasing to the eye and the higher senses were the gleaming unbroached jars in the pantry , and how I suddenly hated the men who had assured me that in their attentions lay my fulfilment . |
| 7 | The generous buffet is both pleasing to the eye and the taste buds , with free wine to get you in the mood for an evening of entertainment . |
| 8 | Distant walls disappear in a fog of dust as dense to the eye as the black fogs of old London . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Aesthetically pleasing i.e. pleasing to the eye ? |
| 11 | The radiometer can detect the difference ( very obvious to the eye ) in the leaf area of the plants at these temperatures . |