Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] first " 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 Bredbury 's solid start ends in first defeat
3 The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious .
4 ‘ The abolition of PRT for new fields sounds at first blush like good news for North Sea developments and hence the Scottish economy .
5 The characteristic network structures of these different types of community are also relevant to the manner in which change may come about , in so far as urban growth tends at first to weaken strong pre-existing rural networks .
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