Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] at first [noun sg] " 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 | The poem ‘ Futility ’ by Wilfred Owen seems at first glance to be simple and relatively straightforward , but , as with many of Owen 's poems , it is well structured and very clever . |
| 3 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 4 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 5 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm very confident that when the Commission learns at first hand that it is not technically possible , they will see the overwhelming good sense of the British government and we will hear no more of the matter , ’ declared Mr Howard . |
| 8 | So often , a species appears at first glance to be a standard version of one of these ten categories . |
| 9 | ‘ The abolition of PRT for new fields sounds at first blush like good news for North Sea developments and hence the Scottish economy . |
| 10 | The way of life which Jesus described in the beatitudes appears at first sight to be a contradiction . |