Example sentences of "[noun] seem [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 2 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 3 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 4 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |
| 5 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 9 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 10 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 11 | The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 14 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 15 | Grappelli 's swinging , fluid style seems at first to be leaving his young guitar/bass duo behind , however well before half-distance they are fully warmed-up ( say by Just one of those things ) and thenceforth come into their own with sympathetic accompaniment and youthful aplomb . |
| 16 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |