Example sentences of "seems at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 2 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
| 3 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 4 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 5 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 6 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 7 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 8 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 9 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 10 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 11 | Mary seems at first sight to have carried still further the process of reversion : ‘ numbers cause great confusion , ’ remarked Count Feria , Charles V 's ambassador . |
| 12 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 13 | One way of approaching the non-cultural ( or non-social ) aspects of psychological theory is to start with what seems at first sight like a simple series of internal inconsistencies in Freud 's work . |
| 14 | However , although it seems at first sight that prospects for prevention associated with life events are bleak , there are nevertheless a number of realistic possibilities , and it is important to go through these . |
| 15 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 16 | Copiously furnished with crammed bookcases , shelves stacked with cassettes and 19th century lithographs tastefully dispersed across the walls , it seems at first glance to be a richly cultured environment . |
| 17 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 18 | The poem ‘ Futility ’ by Wilfred Owen seems at first glance to be simple and relatively straightforward , but , as with many of Owen 's poems , it is well structured and very clever . |