Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient may feel embarrassed at first when he goes to places he does not know , but he will be made welcome if the restaurateur knows what to expect . |
| 2 | The following summary of nursing responsibilities for the care of surgical patients may appear complex at first glance and impossible to remember . |
| 3 | For example , a particular view may appear convincing at first sight , but become much less so when more rigorous analysis exposes certain implicit assumptions , or hitherto unnoticed consequences . |
| 4 | Scotland Yard meant serious trouble , and though this thin-faced lugubrious-looking man might seem mild at first , there was a quid , controlled purposefulness about him that made holidays seem a 1u way away . |
| 5 | If we were to argue that , as a firm believer in the way of ahi sā and an unequivocal opponent of war with its brutalizing tendencies and degrading effects , Gandhi 's moral responsibility could hardly be regarded as extending to recommending people to fight for their country , it might seem difficult at first sight to know what his response would be other than that if a man is unable to choose the higher path of ahi sā , he should be encouraged to fulfil the obligations of the choice of the lower path of duty to his country . |
| 6 | While such mentalistic constructions may sound implausible at first sight , they are justified in three ways . |
| 7 | The idea may sound strange at first , but it often works very well , and the co-counselling movement has many enthusiastic adherents . |
| 8 | It may seem odd at first sight that women should actively promote their own exclusion from the trade . |
| 9 | This may seem awkward at first , but it becomes easier with practice . |
| 10 | Condoms may seem awkward at first , but the more you practise the easier using them becomes . |
| 11 | The variety of course combinations may seem bewildering at first sight , but they result from having a flexible system which tries to allow you to move to new subjects if you find them more attractive than the subjects which you first chose . |
| 12 | I said that physics is the study of simple things , and this , too , may seem strange at first . |
| 13 | A piecemeal approach using micros will seem attractive at first , but may soon founder , when you realise that it is a shared information system which you actually need . |
| 14 | They can feel cold at first but they do warm up quickly and in warmer conditions the modern micro-fibre fabrics commonly used do n't feel sticky in the way that older nylon linings did . |