Example sentences of "it at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was cancer of the bowel , though the doctors were slow or unwilling to diagnose it at first . |
| 2 | Because the different zones of the sea are so interlinked — many creatures making use of several in the course of their lives — the ocean environment is far more vulnerable than it at first appears . |
| 3 | In view of the overwhelming Palestinian demographic preponderance , this arrangement was a good deal less equitable than it at first seems . |
| 4 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 5 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 6 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 7 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
| 8 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 9 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 10 | I could n't believe it at first : I 'd been so careful . |
| 11 | However , a combination of the limestone subsoil and the profusion of rivers , canals , lakes and reservoirs reduces Champagne 's water requirement ( due to low evaporation ) , making 662 millimetres of rainfall relatively heavier than it at first appears . |
| 12 | ‘ Could n't help it at first , but we 've become friends . |
| 13 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 14 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 15 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't think much of it at first , but then something started to waft around the corridors , ’ shudders Bea . |
| 17 | Mr Reenan , of Abingdon , Oxon , confessed : ‘ I can not deny there was a greed aspect to it at first but I regret it now . |
| 18 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 19 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
| 20 | Rollover risk , though now small , is therefore less implausible than it at first appears . |
| 21 | I was nice about it at first and said that business and pleasure do n't mix ; and that I do n't go out with married men and so on . ’ |
| 22 | To lighten what can be quite an anxiety provoking experience , it is sometimes helpful to ask the client to role play a particular situation , but to do it at first , extremely badly . |
| 23 | However , we believe that readers will come to understand by the end of the book that combining the two stories is not as easy as it at first seems . |
| 24 | Elsewhere the overall impact of the railways on the English landscape is not as easy to assess as it at first appears . |
| 25 | She could n't turn it at first ; she fumbled and wrenched and then made herself try again , without forcing . |
| 26 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 27 | Even where it at first appears to be a rather pointless reaction there is invariably found to be some rational element , which means that conflict must be classed alongside other forms of purposive social action . |
| 28 | ‘ Bob , I understand now that nothing in life is as easy as it at first seems , and that being in love is a condition which can cause one a great deal of pain . |
| 29 | I did n't believe it at first . |
| 30 | Some " birds " nests are hemispherical , but only on the inside ; you must cut a honeycomb with a sharp knife if you want to see the accurate hexagons of its construction ; the geometry of spiders ' webs is astonishing but much less regular than it at first appears . |