Example sentences of "[vb infin] at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 2 | ‘ Now you must rest , as the battle will commence at first light . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 10 | Although data does not appear at first sight to be a resource of the organisation , it certainly is a resource , as data is essential for the organisation to operate effectively . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities . |
| 13 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 14 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After all , the member can see at first hand what nice people the Conservatives are . |
| 17 | The existence of a London Showroom for the contract and international market is a vital part of the marketing process where designers can see at first hand the fabrics and curtains to be used in their interiors . |
| 18 | We 'll put him on his way to-day , and you shall follow at first light . |
| 19 | The search of the trackside for clues to the Chiltern line bombers will resume at first light tomorrow . |
| 20 | He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run . |
| 21 | This particular answer might however point at first sight to a development of the common law concept of compulsion , rather than recognition of the broad principle of justice by which Woolwich contends . |
| 22 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 23 | It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category . |
| 24 | That it should have been modelled on the Temple of Solomon may seem at first sight presumptuous , but it was an age that relished allusion , and Solomon , son of David , was of royal descent , anointed by Zadok the priest , and the king par excellence . |
| 25 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 26 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 27 | The intuitions most relevant to a study of meaning would seem at first sight to be intuitions about what things mean . |
| 28 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 29 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 30 | 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 . |