Example sentences of "[noun sg] see only " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION SEES ONLY BREAK-EVEN OPERATING RESULTS |
| 2 | A cashier saw only a £4.99 price tag when the accused presented a pair of shoes . |
| 3 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 4 | If my child sees only one wild rose , life will be worth living . ’ |
| 5 | To set as your aim an examination seen only dimly at the end of a period of many months is to invite failure in your studies . |
| 6 | Holly saw only the man on the wire . |
| 7 | Rain saw only that he got there first and Harbury was left holding out the wine glass . |
| 8 | But her mind 's eye saw only one face , one man . |
| 9 | Thereafter , however , a series of self-inflicted wounds proved costly , the turning point coming when Scott Stewart 's long diagonal to Canada 's left touchline saw only Tony Stanger retreat into his 22 at suitable speed , though John Graf and Chris Tynan then got the better of him , the former 's delightful pick-up releasing the latter for a try . |
| 10 | The priorities used are RESUS , Major A , Major B , Minor A and Minor B. The ENP saw only Minor category patients . |
| 11 | This is why man sees only blurred images under water unless he wears air-filled goggles . |
| 12 | If our tunnel vision sees only disconnected fragments , the fault lies within ourselves and it is in remedying that ignorance to which our main efforts should be individually devoted . |
| 13 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 14 | The teacher stands back and observes Christopher ( 4.7 ) as he tries to cut right through a block of wood with a tenon saw only half its width . |
| 15 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 16 | The problem was , however , as the Emperor saw only too clearly , that this was a contrived situation , as he bluntly told the Spanish Ambassador : |
| 17 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 18 | However , by the end of the century it was in no better health than the older , eighteenth-century bodies : the 1902 Parliamentary Breakfast saw only thirteen MPs present . |
| 19 | As at Camerone and Dien Bien Phu , the cost was high ; but the Legion in its purest tradition saw only merit in dying for France . |
| 20 | The Bohemian party saw only a limited part of the country , landing in Kent , and travelling via London to Reading , Salisbury and Poole , whence they sailed to France . |