Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] first sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 2 | Not at first sight by the 19th century , which has John Keats reading medicine , Samuel Taylor Coleridge playing with chemistry , and Mary Shelley writing science fiction . |
| 3 | In the sciences it is a commonplace , not at first sight disturbing , that physics began by simulating Euclid 's demonstrations in geometry , and that the inverse square law of gravitation became the model for another in electro-magnetism , that ‘ waves ’ of sound or light are suggested by waves on water , and the genetic ‘ code ’ by language . |
| 4 | Perhaps I was not at first sight the most employable of people . |
| 5 | While these two viewpoints may not at first sight appear to be strikingly different , they do in fact embody two quite opposing ways of approaching the discipline . |
| 6 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 7 | Now at first sight , all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe . |
| 8 | Perhaps surprisingly at first sight , additional variable capacitance is introduced in parallel with R 2 and additional fixed capacitance in parallel with R 1 . |
| 9 | Even at first sight the connotations of this expression are distinct , for it seems to rest on the assumption that in other circumstances the addressee would actually be entitled to more . |
| 10 | It was an unlikely theory even at first sight . |
| 11 | He was a Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean , a man somewhat flamboyant in dress and manner , not only a ladies ’ man but one of the most dedicated womanisers in the University ; a man who patently , almost on first sight , appeared self-centred and self-seeking . |
| 12 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |
| 13 | The creature 's opponent was a man , at least at first sight . |
| 14 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 15 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |