Example sentences of "at [num ord] glance " in BNC.
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| 1 | At second glance , Thanet , South is perhaps not such a typical Tory seat . |
| 2 | There are no character notes of any kind in the text , which is written as a complex rhyming scheme that looks like prose at first glance . |
| 3 | At first glance these looked like sandstone of a deep-red colour . |
| 4 | At first glance CHP seems inefficient — but it is not . |
| 5 | Copiously furnished with crammed bookcases , shelves stacked with cassettes and 19th century lithographs tastefully dispersed across the walls , it seems at first glance to be a richly cultured environment . |
| 6 | AT FIRST glance , this boy would appear to have everything . |
| 7 | At first glance , you may wonder how the history of a single event could possibly be spun out to fill a 255-page epic , but this is far from a specialist lap-by-lap potted report of each race . |
| 8 | At first glance , it seems hardly necessary to make another film about Van Gogh ; but Maurice Pialat , who began his career in the late 1960s , has found a new approach by showing the artist not as a great figure of his times but as a tormented , talented painter living in a village among ordinary folk . |
| 9 | Formal , and informal , taboos around menstruation to some extent continued , but the ritual of male circumcision was abandoned — a fascinating development given the significance and purpose of the ritual and one that looks , at first glance , like a clean break with the past to facilitate the future and the expansion of Christianity ( see , for example , Acts 10–11 , 15 ; Romans 4 ; Gal. |
| 10 | At first glance they may seem confining and restrictive , but more careful evaluation shows that the structure of laws enables us to live in a healthy and balanced way , in moderation and without excess . |
| 11 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 12 | But then , at first glance , Vic was somewhat out of the ordinary . |
| 13 | The shape of this 30ft by 45ft design seemed to make it appear wider and not all features could be seen at first glance . |
| 14 | At first glance her remark seems true enough , but my feelings were quite the opposite . |
| 15 | AT first glance , it would appear that things are actually starting to roll on the London stock market . |
| 16 | Edward Pilkington writing in the Guardian later commented , ‘ What at first glance appears to be no more than a simple case of human error becomes , at closer examination , as much a story about bungling management and an inadequate safety system born of years of cuts . |
| 17 | The door illustrated here may look pretty ordinary at first glance . |
| 18 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
| 19 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 20 | ‘ At first glance , yes . |
| 21 | At first glance , Bartolomějská looks like a street full of picturesque houses . |
| 22 | Jo pulled nervously at the top of her dress ; it was also of satin , a pink so pale that it appeared white at first glance , swathed tightly around her long-waisted body and embroidered all over with pearls , brilliants and crumbs of coral . |
| 23 | It is difficult to see , at first glance , exactly what buildings , machinery , and equipment are needed , or what livestock will best suit the holding . |
| 24 | At first glance the distinction seems clear . |
| 25 | At first glance , Wilson should have been a superlative practitioner of Cabinet government . |
| 26 | At first glance , seeing that a food is ‘ high in fibre ’ is easy to understand . |
| 27 | The house was indeed of that later time , but in the style and materials which at first glance indicated a greater age . |
| 28 | At first glance it may seem that the TPS in Mid Glamorgan has become diluted as more and more time is spent on other partnership activities . |
| 29 | At first glance this may seem a tedious and unnecessary task , for any nurse aspiring to teach others ought to be sufficiently proficient at nursing not to require this kind of reminder . |
| 30 | At first glance they realised that the specimen differed from any meteorites they had ever seen . |