Example sentences of "it might [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 2 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 3 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 4 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |
| 5 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 6 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |
| 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 ) . |