Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] at first sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 2 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 3 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 4 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 5 | Although terms such as lentement and vite are unambiguously indicative of tempo , many other expressions commonly found in French Baroque music which may appear at first sight to have no definite connotations of tempo were commonly understood as tempo indications at the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 8 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The difference between the two kinds of training is not as great as would appear at first sight because it turns out that task training has in common with skill training an emphasis on the perceptual side of human functioning . |
| 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 | It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category . |
| 14 | The intuitions most relevant to a study of meaning would seem at first sight to be intuitions about what things mean . |
| 15 | That it should have been modelled on the Temple of Solomon may seem at first sight presumptuous , but it was an age that relished allusion , and Solomon , son of David , was of royal descent , anointed by Zadok the priest , and the king par excellence . |
| 16 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 17 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 18 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |