Example sentences of "[vb base] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error . |
| 2 | Both have black , hairy spikes sticking up from their bodies , but the small tortoiseshell caterpillars are black and yellow , while the peacocks appear at first to be completely black all over . |
| 3 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 4 | Although lateral eye movements appear at first sight to offer a simple and straightforward way of assessing which hemisphere is active at a given Instant , the evidence relating eye movements to hemisphere function is at present rather insubstantial . |
| 5 | The implications for the children 's hearing system of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , appear at first sight to be far-reaching and disastrous . |
| 6 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 7 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 8 | The revival of cask ale has created a growing need for traditional English hop varieties and , thanks to a good summer — wet at first and then hot and sunny — there will be a bumper harvest this year . |
| 9 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 10 | The traction — is referred to a set of coordinates which in classical elasticity are in the undeformed material , but in large-strain elasticity may alternatively be in the deformed material Consider at first the classical theory ; if the traction — acts on a surface with normal n then we write for the components of the traction , and the scalar product — . |
| 11 | The dogs howl and whine at first , then realize that they have finished for the day . |
| 12 | More important , the big volcanoes which make up the Hawaiian Islands all seem at first sight to have central vents — they are mountains thousands of metres high , with craters right at the top . |
| 13 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 14 | Outrageous they seem at first . |
| 15 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 16 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 17 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 18 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 19 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 20 | The religious culture of Lérins and of Faustus in particular seem at first sight to be at odds with the rhetorical culture of Sidonius 's own writings . |
| 21 | Confronted by the figure of the Beggar , Hoccleve at first remains withdrawn in his ‘ seekly distresse ’ ; he refuses to speak to him , then begs him to go away : |
| 22 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 23 | Scholastic children 's books shine at first half of year |
| 24 | Slow at first , the motion gathered speed until it was too dazzling for the eye to follow . |
| 25 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
| 26 | This presents gaps in the text which surprise at first , but then allow the imagination to intervene and to draw on the richness and depth of the images to fill the spaces with one 's own interpretation . |
| 27 | I laugh at first , and then look away , because though I know she 's only kidding , it is sexy just the same . |
| 28 | You think at first that you have no choice , that it 's not up to you to decide on things like boyfriends — he 's sexy or he 's ugly — that you can just forget it . |
| 29 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 30 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |