Example sentences of "[vb -s] at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |
| 2 | His infinite universe , with its infinite worlds , looks at first sight like the apotheosis of free thought — untrammeled by theological constraint . |
| 3 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 4 | The argument in favour of plumping looks at first sight convincing enough : in the later stages of the count your own party will stand a chance of benefiting from the transferred lower preferences expressed by supporters of other parties , whilst those parties will not benefit from the transferred lower preferences of your own supporters since they wo n't have expressed any . |
| 5 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 6 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 7 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 8 | ‘ The abolition of PRT for new fields sounds at first blush like good news for North Sea developments and hence the Scottish economy . |
| 9 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 10 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 11 | This is a much more debatable — and debated — point than appears at first sight . |
| 12 | The way of life which Jesus described in the beatitudes appears at first sight to be a contradiction . |
| 13 | But even this is not as extensive as it appears at first sight for , in conducting an investigation on a complaint , the Tribunal must apply ‘ the principles applicable by a court on an application for judicial review ’ . |
| 14 | This order , from which our modern days of the week derive ( e.g. iii French ) , appears at first sight to be devoid of sense , since it does not accord in an obvious way with the order in which ( according to pre-Copernican cosmology ) the ‘ planets ’ were thought to lie in relation to the earth : Saturn , Jupiter , Mars , the sun , Venus , Mercury , the moon . |
| 15 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 16 | Thus , as far as the spadefoot is concerned , it is quite possible that what appears at first sight to be a random collection of toads arbitrarily mating with anything and everything is actually an ordered process . |
| 17 | Apprenticeship training is essentially about ensuring standards of workmanship and characteristically it appears at first sight to take an unconscionably long time . |
| 18 | There may prove to be less difference between some modern versions of Christianity and Buddhism and psychoanalysis than appears at first sight . |
| 19 | Such compound instructions may therefore be less useful than appears at first sight . |
| 20 | The evidence from longitudinal surveys of the unemployed appears at first sight to be not wholly consistent . |
| 21 | Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight . |
| 22 | So often , a species appears at first glance to be a standard version of one of these ten categories . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ This appears at first glance to be quite a simple scheme , until we come to actually explaining it to the customer . |
| 24 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 25 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
| 26 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 27 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 28 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 29 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 30 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |