Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 2 | There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error . |
| 3 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 4 | This is a much more debatable — and debated — point than appears at first sight . |
| 5 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 6 | There may prove to be less difference between some modern versions of Christianity and Buddhism and psychoanalysis than appears at first sight . |
| 7 | Such compound instructions may therefore be less useful than appears at first sight . |
| 8 | Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight . |
| 9 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 10 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The taxi driver pocketed the note and crashed into first gear . |
| 13 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 14 | The first race was off at two fifteen but on race day Cheltenham is up and running at first light . |
| 15 | Towards the and of his stint , he filled a gap in the team for the Italian GP at Monza — and saw at first hand one of BRM 's famous fiascos . |
| 16 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |
| 17 | Ide Tynan , like many others in Irish traditional music , was classically trained and sang as first soprano with the RTE Philharmonic Choir . |
| 18 | Gustavsson made the leading group 1.5km from the finish and went on to outsprint Blyth and Rohr for first place , a brilliant recovery from a dismal start . |
| 19 | Crows acrobated above a dead elm tree , ‘ The crow will tumble up and down/ at first sign of spring/ and in old trees around the town/brush winter from its wing . ’ |
| 20 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 21 | Most railways printed a range of tickets for servants entitled ‘ to privilege third class travel ’ , which had quite heavy usage , but servants in higher grades without ‘ All Stations ’ passes and entitled to First Class travel must have been very few . |
| 22 | In 1985 , they " woke up " and sued for possession but failed at first instance . |
| 23 | Life was sex , infidelity. divorces , Infatuation , yes , but love at first sight , smell , touch ? |
| 24 | As I have sought to show in the present chapter , the philosophical grounds on which individualism is defended , though compelling at first sight , are in fact open to doubt . |
| 25 | It is common ground that in a majority of cases where an order may be made under section 18 for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the costs of appellate , as opposed to first instance , proceedings , the Court of Appeal or this House will be in a position at the conclusion of an appeal on the information then before it to decide under section 18(3) what , if any , order for costs should be made against the assisted party and to form at least a provisional view under section 18(4) ( c ) as to whether it would be ‘ just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . ’ |
| 26 | The new structure as outlined by First Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for management of the economy , Vladimir Shumeiko , who was in charge of the reorganization , comprised a three-tier system . |