Example sentences of "[vb -s] at first [noun sg] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |
| 2 | His infinite universe , with its infinite worlds , looks at first sight like the apotheosis of free thought — untrammeled by theological constraint . |
| 3 | ‘ The abolition of PRT for new fields sounds at first blush like good news for North Sea developments and hence the Scottish economy . |
| 4 | One way of approaching the non-cultural ( or non-social ) aspects of psychological theory is to start with what seems at first sight like a simple series of internal inconsistencies in Freud 's work . |
| 5 | It reads at first sight like a selfless Magna Carta for the wild — until you begin to glimpse ( as in that ancient charter ) the barons ' hidden agenda . |