Example sentences of "at [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it seemed impossible to cope with two employers with their contrasting attitudes towards money . |
| 2 | At first it seemed big enough to drive a train through . |
| 3 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 4 | At first it looked empty , then he saw two small vessels , just short of the horizon , their motion imperceptible . |
| 5 | At first it seems easy to make the distinction between changes which are national and those which are international . |
| 6 | At first it seems plausible that admissible algorithms such as A* fail because the score of incoming speech h* ( n ) , is hard to estimate . |
| 7 | Kepler , too , spoke of an enhanced status for the earth : At last it enjoyed legal citizenship in the heavens . |