Example sentences of "seem at first [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 2 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 5 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 6 | The religious culture of Lérins and of Faustus in particular seem at first sight to be at odds with the rhetorical culture of Sidonius 's own writings . |
| 7 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 8 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The function of early Anglo-Saxon pottery seems at first glance to be obvious . |
| 11 | The poem ‘ Futility ’ by Wilfred Owen seems at first glance to be simple and relatively straightforward , but , as with many of Owen 's poems , it is well structured and very clever . |
| 12 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 13 | The intuitions most relevant to a study of meaning would seem at first sight to be intuitions about what things mean . |