Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way a DCF yield of 500 per cent looks good at first sight , but if the investment is 6p it is not worth considering . |
| 2 | In the same way a DCF yield of 500 per cent looks good at first sight , but if the investment is 6p it is not worth considering . |
| 3 | It seems odd at first sight that Celsus senior should have been of this view , and odder that he managed to persuade Ducenius Varus ( consul in AD 95 ) and his colleagues that it was the correct one . |
| 4 | Although the quantity and quality of all this information seems impressive at first glance , it is inevitably uneven in its coverage of different trades . |
| 5 | A shallow opportunity is one that seems attractive at first sight . |
| 6 | Tom Otterness , the sculptor , has created a true epitaph for the Eighties in his ‘ The Real World ’ a pocket Disney and-by-way-of-Hieronymus Bosch in which diminutive doll figures cute at first encounter — cavort in the open air among what are , for them , giants huge Molochian beings awash in and sometimes even exploding with money , money symbolized by thousands of larger-than-life one-cent pieces . |