Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [that] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , wiser counsels prevailed ; the proposals that had emerged by the summer of 1989 from the subject working parties and the National Curriculum Council were far from being the national syllabuses that had at first seemed likely . |
| 2 | Hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans have escaped the grip of hunger thanks to the ceasefire , which took hold last November , and to the good rains that have at last broken a severe drought . |
| 3 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 4 | It was departing from this grandiose encounter that Rose at last found Auguste , his head still full of exalted plans for the humble whiting . |
| 5 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 6 | There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error . |