Example sentences of "see only " in BNC.
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| 31 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |
| 32 | Here , truly , is a place to sense freedom , to be away from the crowds and the pressures of the world , to wander for miles seeing only a handful of people enjoying the same leisurely activity , or maybe no-one at all . |
| 33 | Similarly some DCSLs had lost contact with the school 's senior management team once funding was complete , reverting again to seeing only the teacher-librarian . |
| 34 | However , the inspectors ignored and even scorned the self-evaluation , seeing only their inspection as important . |
| 35 | But Kraal only shook his head and stared mournfully out on to the lovely morning , seeing only a memory of an old eagle he had argued with but always loved and who would never come back . |
| 36 | Seeing only the spray of Petion 's blood , Ace fired again and again , the shots punching continually into Richmann 's body and causing him to jerk like a marionette before toppling backwards into the steel door . |
| 37 | There was a sharp , hard impatience about him , and Cassie , wanting only what he wanted , seeing only the fulfilment of her hopes , and forgetting her earlier feelings of unease , was full of dreamy desire . |
| 38 | They also have not yet learned to use their eyes together ( called binocular vision ) , so they may be seeing double or seeing only through one eye . |
| 39 | ‘ Obediently she did as he bade her , her gaze travelling round the empty room , seeing only the elegant lines of fitted furniture , the newly made bed , the bedside table with one large volume hanging open — and another fallen untidily on the floor beside it . |
| 40 | Away from her mother and father and sister and grandmother was bad enough , but the worst thing for Belle was opening her eyes and seeing only the walls around her . |
| 41 | With December seeing only 2 full weeks activity and with Scotland enjoying its holiday over the New Year I trust Scottish colleagues enter 1991 appropriately refreshed and renewed . |
| 42 | They noted too that Scotland contributed fully to the costs of all network programmes while seeing only 94 per cent of them , and paid a full share for network radio despite patchy reception in some areas . |
| 43 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 44 | Over on the horizon there was a dark-blue smudge of land to be seen only in first clear light . |
| 45 | His celebrated ‘ secret ’ works , mainly from his early years , include a series of masochistic self-portraits , subjects in the terrible gear of subjugation and self-disgust , studies of penis and pistil , and move with astonishing art to consideration of the body ( usually seen only in part ) as a piece of classical relief . |
| 46 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 47 | In her palm lies the bright scrap of a highly illegal netfly , something which Reynard has seen only in illustrations before . |
| 48 | Yet he has seen only two other houses in the creek come on the market in the last 12 years . |
| 49 | Tiredness , the excitement of the journey and of sitting , so late , at a pavement café such as I had seen only in films ( these agreeable continental institutions had not yet spread to London , far less pre-Festival Edinburgh ) , as well as the unaccustomed intake of alcohol , all made my head reel . |
| 50 | At the age of 70 ( in 1890 ) , Engels reflected on the coming break-up of the European empires and the liberation of many of those for whom , in 1848 , he had seen only assimilation : |
| 51 | Diplomatic missions and political initiatives do n't mean anything to these young people who have seen only more oppression as Israel speaks of peace . |
| 52 | In ancient Greek literature , joy was seen only as the delight of the gods , who alone were the lords of joy . |
| 53 | Chancroid , also called soft sore , soft chancre , and ‘ ulcus molle ’ , is a disease of world-wide distribution but is seen only rarely in temperate climates and is uncommon in Western Europe or North America and , when it has been diagnosed , it has usually been imported from warmer countries . |
| 54 | They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today . |
| 55 | Their design was a radical departure from the traditional concept of a tramcar , and incorporated features of styling and comfort which had been seen only in motor-coaches of the day . |
| 56 | Old photographs of the Potteries show a jungle of bottle ovens seen only dimly through the permanent pall of smoke that was rivalled in its denseness at one time only by Sheffield and the Black Country . |
| 57 | As we have seen only the papers relevant to the subject of our review , we are not able to judge how the assessment machinery deals with areas of higher priority , but we believe that , in dealing with Argentina and the Falkland Islands , it was too passive in operation to respond quickly and critically to a rapidly changing situation which demanded urgent attention . |
| 58 | REMEMBER — IN BRITAIN , IMAX CAN BE SEEN ONLY AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY , FILM AND TELEVISION , BRADFORD |
| 59 | One plant did elude the museum 's staff Genlisea , a filamentous aquatic plant with an ingenious ‘ mouth , gullet , stomach ’ arrangement can be seen only in diagram . |
| 60 | Similarly , of 16 species of Chitonomyces on an aquatic beetle ( gyrinid beetles ) six were seen only on males and nine were limited to females . |