Example sentences of "[Wh det] might at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 2 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 3 | Because you can use a particular sort of algebra , based on the so-called binary system , which greatly shortens and simplifies problems , which might at first sight seem terribly long and complicated . |
| 4 | What she can also have , which might at first glance seen off-putting , is great expertise in some abstruse art or science , though this should never of course be an unpleasant one . |
| 5 | But Douglas , concerned about numbers , was against any diminution of their main assembly which might at any time be faced with confronting Balliol 's entire army . |
| 6 | The bars of Victoria 's cot were black and menacing and the line of light under the door from the landing was a brilliant pencil which might at any moment rear up and scrawl ‘ She is not normall ’ lambently on the wall . |
| 7 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 8 | SUSIE and Ian Cornell have found what might at first sight look like a most obvious corner of the fitness market — a gym for the unfit . |