Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] at [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 2 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 3 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 4 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 5 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 6 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 7 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 8 | For that brief moment she could see the room beyond him and there , jutting out from what seemed at first glance to be a pillow beneath the blanket , the naked foot of a youth . |
| 9 | See what happens at next year 's National Championship Air Races , September 16/19 , 1993 . |
| 10 | These conclusions are confirmed by what happened at Eighth Army HQ over the following two days , as we shall come to shortly . |
| 11 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thus , as far as the spadefoot is concerned , it is quite possible that what appears at first sight to be a random collection of toads arbitrarily mating with anything and everything is actually an ordered process . |
| 14 | Tank had what appeared at first sight to be good credentials , having designed the Focke Wulf 190 aircraft which had given Germany air superiority for eighteen months during the Second World War . |