Example sentences of "might [vb infin] at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 2 | The impossibility of replication in police investigation is not as crippling as might appear at first sight because it is far less important , or even necessary , in the criminal context than in science . |
| 3 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 4 | In terms of the social system , for example , one might look at first degree courses in terms of social selection and access — one of the functions identified in Figure 1.1 . |
| 5 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 6 | This might seem at first sight to express the naive view that onomatopoeia and other kinds of sound symbolism constitute essential features of poetry , but Wimsatt 's conception of the iconic function of language embraces a great deal more than this . |
| 7 | It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand ( being crucial to market growth ) and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability ( being the only thing preventing a phenomenal profits bonanza ) . |