Example sentences of "at first sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is perhaps a more useful analogy than might at first sight appear . |
| 2 | At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them . |
| 3 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 4 | Understanding in this sense means being able to perceive structure amongst a set of observations that were at first sight perplexing and confusing . |
| 5 | At first sight , the reader might doubt whether even people without brain injury usually possess significant lip-reading skills . |
| 6 | It was love at first sight but , little did they know , this growing pup — out in the big , wide world for the first time — would wreak havoc |
| 7 | At first sight the obvious answer might be to convert all images to some enormously high resolution which would satisfy any possible requirement . |
| 8 | At 77/467 and again at 80/512 , reference to the ‘ quai ’ or ‘ quais ’ at or of ‘ Siracusa , seem not much less adventitious , in the sense that location in the Sicilian city of Syracuse seems , at first sight anyhow , not to be significant . |
| 9 | What on earth can have induced Labour and Conservative politicians alike even to consider hitching their wagons to something which , at first sight , makes the poll tax look like a pre-election bonus ? |
| 10 | Although the move was hailed as sensational at first sight , the vagueness of the language used to promise ‘ travel opportunities ’ and ‘ media that are close to life ’ failed to convince observers that the leadership had significantly softened its attitude . |
| 11 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 12 | The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co-operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . |
| 13 | At first sight the very core of party support appeared to be rotten . |
| 14 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 15 | Eliot is able to recall Shakespeare closely enough to suggest at first sight that an ironic contrast is aimed at , but also to present the possibility that the allusion functions as the poetic equivalent of a legal fiction . |
| 16 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 17 | From far above the glacier looked like modern art , a canvas of grey-white curiously etched with black lines that appeared random at first sight , but in which a symmetry could at length be discerned . |
| 18 | The degree to which publicans ‘ invested ’ for this reason in football is unknown but the pecuniary advantage at first sight seems doubtful . |
| 19 | On a purely aesthetic level , one is frequently haunted by his ( at first sight paradoxical ) defence of Milton 's preference far Hebrew over Greek lyrics . |
| 20 | The overflow of objects , at first sight rather ramshackle , came to look more poetical in its organisation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At first sight , the location of protest sub stantially among Romania 's alien ated Hungarian minority suggests that it may be more easily confined by the leadership in Bucharest . |
| 23 | Love at first sight . |
| 24 | Generous though the offer seemed to be at first sight , it was in American interests to acquire missile sites in Britain to bring the Soviet Union within range of American attack . |
| 25 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
| 26 | At first sight , it is surprising that German think-tanks should be notable for unideological pragmatism . |
| 27 | The garish shirt that caused a myotonic goat to faint at first sight may have little effect once the animal has grown used to its owner 's poor taste . |
| 28 | Like many theories , the verdict of the corporate-finance academics is not terribly helpful at first sight . |
| 29 | What was inside the cradles at first sight terrified me . |
| 30 | At first sight this may seem so for Locke too . |