Example sentences of "[pron] might [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 2 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 3 | Because you can use a particular sort of algebra , based on the so-called binary system , which greatly shortens and simplifies problems , which might at first sight seem terribly long and complicated . |
| 4 | What she can also have , which might at first glance seen off-putting , is great expertise in some abstruse art or science , though this should never of course be an unpleasant one . |
| 5 | So far from being , as you might at first glance suspect , a wanton display of Milton 's monstrous learning , it 's a piece of triumphant relevance . |
| 6 | It may be concluded , therefore , that the advantages which Categories 1 and 2 afford to the prosecution are by no means as great as they might at first sight appear to be . |
| 7 | This debate is important because it points up that ‘ the facts ’ are not necessarily as simple and straightforward as they might at first sight seem . |
| 8 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |
| 9 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 10 | SUSIE and Ian Cornell have found what might at first sight look like a most obvious corner of the fitness market — a gym for the unfit . |