Example sentences of "[verb] at first sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 6 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |
| 7 | His infinite universe , with its infinite worlds , looks at first sight like the apotheosis of free thought — untrammeled by theological constraint . |
| 8 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 9 | The argument in favour of plumping looks at first sight convincing enough : in the later stages of the count your own party will stand a chance of benefiting from the transferred lower preferences expressed by supporters of other parties , whilst those parties will not benefit from the transferred lower preferences of your own supporters since they wo n't have expressed any . |
| 10 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 11 | And , as is often the case in the media , literary texts have the habit of not turning out to mean what might be expected at first sight . |
| 12 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 13 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 14 | The difference between the two kinds of training is not as great as would appear at first sight because it turns out that task training has in common with skill training an emphasis on the perceptual side of human functioning . |
| 15 | The impossibility of replication in police investigation is not as crippling as might appear at first sight because it is far less important , or even necessary , in the criminal context than in science . |
| 16 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 17 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 18 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 19 | Although data does not appear at first sight to be a resource of the organisation , it certainly is a resource , as data is essential for the organisation to operate effectively . |
| 20 | Although terms such as lentement and vite are unambiguously indicative of tempo , many other expressions commonly found in French Baroque music which may appear at first sight to have no definite connotations of tempo were commonly understood as tempo indications at the time . |
| 21 | As I have sought to show in the present chapter , the philosophical grounds on which individualism is defended , though compelling at first sight , are in fact open to doubt . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 24 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 25 | Eliot is able to recall Shakespeare closely enough to suggest at first sight that an ironic contrast is aimed at , but also to present the possibility that the allusion functions as the poetic equivalent of a legal fiction . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 28 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 29 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 30 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |