Example sentences of "at first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare was at first protective and maternal , then weepy and emotional , and finally , when the implications of what Rachel was doing became clear to her , she was furious . |
| 2 | At first many people may have been tempted to discount it . |
| 3 | At first many of the new recruits were from Mosley 's New Party ; some were old followers from the ILP . |
| 4 | At first many counties established county-wide committees , but these either degenerated into battlegrounds for county/district rivalries or else atrophied through lack of business ( Alexander 1982a:37 — 8 ; 58 — 9 ) . |
| 5 | At first many American officials in the Truman administration were sympathetic to his cause and exasperated by British greed . |
| 6 | At first many people , including Israel himself , argued that since black holes had to be perfectly spherical , a black hole could only form from the collapse of a perfectly spherical object . |
| 7 | So great was the devestation that rescue workers were not at first sure how many vehicles were involved . |
| 8 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 9 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |
| 10 | " Values " which were at first aesthetic have become didactic . " |
| 11 | At first new communities grew up around the heavy industries of coal , steel and shipping . |
| 12 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 13 | Mixed results at first New Delhi auction |
| 14 | Caroline turned to him , at first unaware she 'd spoken aloud . |
| 15 | Having negotiated the pitch with difficulty in the wet , I was at first relieved at having passed beneath the boulder and looking forward to an easy scramble to the top when I came across another difficult pitch . |
| 16 | In Orkney , the attack on housing policy was at first personal but then it turned against bureaucracy in general which led officials to being very defensive . |
| 17 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 18 | The citation order was at first unsatisfactory and modifications were made in order to better reflect the needs of users . |
| 19 | But although this is at first appealing , on closer examination the concept is somewhat flawed . |
| 20 | At first two of his sons , Emanuel , who died 22 August 1614 , with Daniel Hechstetter ( as the English descendants called themselves ) , and then Daniel with Emanuel 's son Joseph continued , more modestly and successfully , to operate the works and mines until about 1634 , when they went bankrupt . |
| 21 | In eighteen thirty one Charlotte was sent to the , to Roe Head School at Murfield She was at first homesick , but eventually carried off three prizes . |
| 22 | At first contemporary " mass " society was felt to be conformist , debased , and unimaginative . |
| 23 | De Gaulle himself was shocked by the events and at first hesitant about what to do . |
| 24 | Mrs Ramsden 's husband , Jack , whose successful punting exploits have regularly had the bookies reaching for the valium bottle , was at first stunned and angered by the suggestion that anything was wrong with Travelling Light , whom he has backed at 33-1 for the second leg of the Autumn Double . |
| 25 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 26 | At first that fight was an uphill struggle . |
| 27 | At first that change was gradual but it soon accelerated . |
| 28 | Er , I do n't know if you er , meant er er er the various plans to achieve er , i in that order but I certainly want obey patient 's choice er , er er a a at first that 's the reasons I 've found . |
| 29 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 30 | You could be forgiven for thinking at first that Quick Help for WordPerfect has very few advantages over the help already supplied with WordPerfect . |