Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , many of the issues in pragmatics have arisen historically from this particular vantage point , and to understand them one must at least at first approach from the same direction . |
| 2 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |
| 3 | The creature 's opponent was a man , at least at first sight . |
| 4 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 5 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , perhaps , at least at first glance , this promotion was secured by Colonel Haldane 's interest with the commissioners , for John Main had been firmly attached to the Cunningham interest in burgh politics . |
| 7 | Incomprehensible — at least at first glance — to those not familiar with the campaign , the image has much in common not only with British TV commercials but also with some branches of avant-garde photographic art in Britain which deliberately borrow cool and elliptical presentation techniques for other ends . |
| 8 | The interpretation of these posters , at least on first reading , required a certain amount of problem solving activity . |