Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] first sight " in BNC.

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1 To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles .
2 This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure .
3 Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity .
4 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 .
5 The way of life which Jesus described in the beatitudes appears at first sight to be a contradiction .
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