Example sentences of "as [pron] might [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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1 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
2 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
3 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
4 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
5 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |