Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
2 | This is not quite as straightforward as it at first appears . |
3 | ‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought . |
4 | However , we believe that readers will come to understand by the end of the book that combining the two stories is not as easy as it at first seems . |
5 | ‘ Bob , I understand now that nothing in life is as easy as it at first seems , and that being in love is a condition which can cause one a great deal of pain . |
6 | Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear . |
7 | It is not clear at present exactly what the rules are in such cases , nor whether the choices of readings are as clear-cut as they at first seem . |
8 | One reason why the shift in emphasis to the broader question of determinism is less helpful than it at first appears is that ‘ the problem of determinism ’ itself lacks a clear formulation , and the difficulty of saying exactly what it consists in is reflected in attempts to relate it to holism . |
9 | Because the different zones of the sea are so interlinked — many creatures making use of several in the course of their lives — the ocean environment is far more vulnerable than it at first appears . |
10 | Some " birds " nests are hemispherical , but only on the inside ; you must cut a honeycomb with a sharp knife if you want to see the accurate hexagons of its construction ; the geometry of spiders ' webs is astonishing but much less regular than it at first appears . |
11 | In view of the overwhelming Palestinian demographic preponderance , this arrangement was a good deal less equitable than it at first seems . |
12 | Rollover risk , though now small , is therefore less implausible than it at first appears . |
13 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
14 | Indeed , it is not unlikely that he at some point faced armed resistance in the Fens , as the Liber Eliensis mentions a siege of Ely . |
15 | His pantomime became most articulate when we at last reached the two vast geological features which mark the gateway to Torajaland . |