Example sentences of "[vb base] at first [noun sg] " 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 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 10 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 11 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 12 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Scholastic children 's books shine at first half of year |
| 17 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 18 | I think at first glance you ca n't really see . |
| 19 | Love at first sight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But it was n't love at first sight … |
| 22 | It was n't love at first sight when I met Michael [ Williams ] — it was good friends at first sight , though , for nine years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was n't love at first sight for Monica . |
| 25 | ‘ Was it love at first sight ? |
| 26 | He just seemed to walk right into that one : love at first sight . |
| 27 | Life was sex , infidelity. divorces , Infatuation , yes , but love at first sight , smell , touch ? |
| 28 | Love at first sight . |
| 29 | He had never believed that anything like this could happen to him — this being , he supposed , love at first sight — but he acknowledged that it had . |
| 30 | ‘ Love at first sight ’ is a very apt description of how I felt when I saw you in church today . ’ |