Example sentences of "only [be] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 2 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 3 | This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression . |
| 4 | Socially , at this point the significance of design as such is more or less lost : significance can only been seen in terms of problems solved or products produced . |
| 5 | In the normal course of events they will only be seen en masse after the Trooping of the Colour and on Christmas morning at Windsor ; and the wisdom passed from experienced staff to newcomers is never to put them on stage together . |
| 6 | The animals can now only be seen in the dwindling open fields of the new territories . |
| 7 | Despite her declaration of a state of emergency yesterday and the government 's announcement early today that the rebels had agreed to return to their barracks , the events of the last six days can only be seen as a colossal confession of weakness on Mrs Aquino 's part . |
| 8 | For the lack of overt reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ in his major speeches , and the omission of his name as a signatory to the boycott ‘ appeal ’ can only be seen as a deliberate policy to detach the Führer himself in his public image from the violent anti Jewish rhetoric and actions of which he privately approved . |
| 9 | It has been rightly said that these remarkable statements can only be seen as Hitler 's wish to make manifest his work in the eyes of history . |
| 10 | Which can only be seen when the gearbox is dismantled . |
| 11 | Yet systematic exclusion of women from higher education can only be seen as having forced the great majority of capable women out of the intellectual mainstream . |
| 12 | The refugee presence in neighbouring countries made the Palestine question highly visible , while from an Arab perspective the creation of Israel could only be seen as a smack in the face of the Arab nation . |
| 13 | Sometimes they may spread to involve the terminal urethra , and can only be seen if the urethral meatus is parted . |
| 14 | Not only should cycling shorts only be seen on people over six feet tall with perfect bodies , they should never be seen on Ben Lawers in October . |
| 15 | Today it is possible to experience places and events which even thirty years ago could only be seen on the pages of geography textbooks . |
| 16 | Thus recorded crime can only be seen as an indication of criminal activity . |
| 17 | However , because of the limited scope of the Act , the east front of the India Office would only be seen at an oblique angle from the narrow King Street , and it would not have the space in front of it , as originally proposed . |
| 18 | During autumn he puts out his invisible lines that can only be seen under the microscope of the sun beams , and he is carried into the deep ocean , a balloonist travelling to an unknown destination . |
| 19 | Most fungi grow as long thin threads called hyphae — they are so slender that they can only be seen under a microscope , but a mass of intertwined hyphae is visible : this is what makes up toadstools and mushrooms . |
| 20 | Large figures , carved into the chalk hillside , such as the Uffington Horse , the Long Man of Wilmington and the Cerne Abbas Giant , are well known , but these figures were something very different : they were enormous earth sculptures which could only be seen properly from the air or on a map . |
| 21 | Moreover , the ‘ curved path ’ , ‘ whirling mass ’ , ‘ cosmic wheel ’ or spiralling vortex described by the ancients as the integrating pattern of cosmic universal energy , can only be seen to have the endorsement of modern research and understanding . |
| 22 | The real signs of a healthier economy will only be seen when factories stop closing down , employers start taking on staff , and consumers flock to the shops at a time of year other than the annual pre-Christmas splurge . |
| 23 | But ITV Association chairman Greg Dyke said the proposal would lead to the network losing hit shows and mean stars like The Bill 's Christopher Ellison would only be seen on satellite TV . |
| 24 | His close-set eyes daily reviewed documents which would otherwise only be seen by perhaps half a dozen people — up to and including the President himself . |
| 25 | It is quite common in primitive exchange systems that the movement of goods can only be seen in one direction . |
| 26 | A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’ |
| 27 | They are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope . |
| 28 | The loans , which have come from New York , Boston , Chicago , Philadelphia , Sao Paolo , St Petersburg , London , Paris , Rome , Prague , Tokyo and Berlin , as well as from rarely seen Swiss and German private collections , will only be seen in Tübingen ( catalogue published by DuMont at DM86 ) . |
| 29 | Put that the other way round : a China that flunked this test would not only be seen to be throwing in its lot with Asia 's rogue regimes . |
| 30 | And CLR 's conviction that cricket can only be seen truly in its social , political and historical context has pervaded Sissons 's subsequent writings on the game , including three books — Cricket and Empire , The Players and George Lohmann — The Beau Ideal . |