Example sentences of "seem at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 3 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 4 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 5 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 6 | The religious culture of Lérins and of Faustus in particular seem at first sight to be at odds with the rhetorical culture of Sidonius 's own writings . |
| 7 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |