Example sentences of "[modal v] appear at [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
2 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
6 | To marketing departments the technological challenge associated with such an approach may appear at first quite daunting . |
7 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
8 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
12 | 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 . |