Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 2 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
| 3 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 7 | To marketing departments the technological challenge associated with such an approach may appear at first quite daunting . |
| 8 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 9 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 14 | In terms of the social system , for example , one might look at first degree courses in terms of social selection and access — one of the functions identified in Figure 1.1 . |
| 15 | Overall most anthropologists would probably see indirect connection between all the factors which Engels considered , but these interrelations must remain much more problematic and ambiguous than they might seem at first , and the general conclusions which Engels sought in the work of Morgan are not possible . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 18 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |
| 19 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 20 | This might seem at first sight to express the naive view that onomatopoeia and other kinds of sound symbolism constitute essential features of poetry , but Wimsatt 's conception of the iconic function of language embraces a great deal more than this . |
| 21 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |
| 22 | A curious fact which might seem at first to constitute an exception to this explanation turns out to provide further confirmation of it . |
| 23 | It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand ( being crucial to market growth ) and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability ( being the only thing preventing a phenomenal profits bonanza ) . |
| 24 | He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 26 | Although the supply of these assets — and therefore economic activity — may respond at first , eventually the increase in the money stock feeds through to prices . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We 'll put him on his way to-day , and you shall follow at first light . |
| 29 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 30 | The rift between the two brothers recalls the one between Cain and Abel and would seem at first to be heading for a similar conclusion . |