Example sentences of "to the naked eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last category is the thing that started , at least to the naked eye , in Berkeley , California about 1964 , and swept around the world reaching its zenith about 1969–70 — just five years flat . |
| 2 | We merely became accustomed to the general life of the common birds and animals , and to the appearances of trees and clouds and everything upon the surface that showed itself to the naked eye ’ . |
| 3 | Polished metal looks as smooth and featureless as glass to the naked eye but , unlike glass , it is a crystalline material ; it solidifies as a network of tiny grains which can be seen if the metal is etched with a dilute acid and examined under a microscope ( fig. 5.11a ) . |
| 4 | The mite is just visible to the naked eye and feeds on honey bees and their grubs by sucking their body fluids . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the vast expanse of the oceans seems devoid of plants — at least to the naked eye ; and if weed grows conspicuously on coral reefs , then that is a often a sign that all is not well . |
| 8 | Because the creatures of the plankton individually are small , they are not always visible to the naked eye . |
| 9 | Because they are so faint , not a single one is visible to the naked eye . |
| 10 | And yet another 10 per cent of stars are white dwarfs , dim stars the size of Earth and all invisible to the naked eye . |
| 11 | Protozoa are much larger than bacteria or viruses , although still not visible to the naked eye . |
| 12 | The sand and silt particles , which are roughly spherical in shape range from 2,000 microns ( ″ ) to 50 microns in diameter ( sands ) and from 50 to 2 microns ( silts ) ; the finer silt particles being indistinguishable individually to the naked eye . |
| 13 | However , some cells , like the large eggs of frogs , are easily visible , and the human egg is just visible to the naked eye . |
| 14 | The human and mouse eggs are about one tenth of a millimetre in diameter and are just visible to the naked eye . |
| 15 | Smoothing by an arithmetic procedure can sometimes , however , reveal patterns not immediately obvious to the naked eye . |
| 16 | Well , it can sometimes reveal patterns not immediately obvious to the naked eye ; an example of this is shown in exercise 9.3 . |
| 17 | The video-tape being produced was obviously defective , even to the naked eye . |
| 18 | All the internal organs looked pretty normal to the naked eye . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many of these parasites are invisible to the naked eye . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | To the naked eye the brain has a disturbingly homogeneous appearance . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Through his telescope Galileo observed more things in the heavens than had ever been dreamed of : moons of Jupiter and myriads of stars invisible to the naked eye . |
| 30 | The wall opposite the door , constructed of rows of teak slats , contained two seamless sliding doors , invisible to the naked eye , which could only be activated by miniature sonic transmitters . |