Example sentences of "[vb base] at [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although lateral eye movements appear at first sight to offer a simple and straightforward way of assessing which hemisphere is active at a given Instant , the evidence relating eye movements to hemisphere function is at present rather insubstantial . |
| 2 | The implications for the children 's hearing system of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , appear at first sight to be far-reaching and disastrous . |
| 3 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 4 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 5 | There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error . |
| 6 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 7 | Mr Murdoch can draw some comfort from the fact that News ' own interest rates are 70 per cent fixed at long-term rates , and it looks as though he will narrowly avoid joining the A$1bn interest payers list at next year end . |
| 8 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 9 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |
| 10 | PRIZE PAIR : Nigel with the borrowed gown and Brix at last year 's ceremony |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 13 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 14 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 15 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 19 | Scholastic children 's books shine at first half of year |
| 20 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 21 | I think at first glance you ca n't really see . |
| 22 | Love at first sight . |
| 23 | Favourite fairy tales are the need for spiritual growth , love at first sight , the pull of destiny or meetings in past lives , and we do not realize the primitive level of being in which the bond has its source . |
| 24 | But it was n't love at first sight … |
| 25 | It was n't love at first sight when I met Michael [ Williams ] — it was good friends at first sight , though , for nine years . |
| 26 | It was not love at first sight , but between the speaker and this member of his audience there developed a rapport that was fascination on her side and intense curiosity on his . |
| 27 | It was n't love at first sight for Monica . |
| 28 | ‘ Was it love at first sight ? |
| 29 | He just seemed to walk right into that one : love at first sight . |
| 30 | Life was sex , infidelity. divorces , Infatuation , yes , but love at first sight , smell , touch ? |