Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . |
| 2 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 3 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 4 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 5 | Even though it looks at first it 's a ridiculous thing to do . |
| 6 | 6 Spinning another spiral more closely spaced than the one it spins at first . |
| 7 | I am running a four speed Range Rover box which was perfectly good until I changed the oil , Now it baulks on first and second , especially from third to second . |
| 8 | It sounds at first a morally dubious proposition , but Michael Grubb argues in The Greenhouse Effect that it is more promising , and fairer , that any other scheme for international control . |
| 9 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 10 | But even this is not as extensive as it appears at first sight for , in conducting an investigation on a complaint , the Tribunal must apply ‘ the principles applicable by a court on an application for judicial review ’ . |
| 11 | Apprenticeship training is essentially about ensuring standards of workmanship and characteristically it appears at first sight to take an unconscionably long time . |
| 12 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
| 15 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 16 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 17 | The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first . |
| 18 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 19 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 20 | Mr Lingham 's grandfather came to Hailing from Luddesdowne as tenant to Court Farm in the 1860's , it seems at first it was run jointly with a Mr Davis , but in October 1895 the farming stock of Court Farm was auctioned off , the property of Messrs Lingham & Davis . |
| 21 | It seems at first difficult to proceed with this debate . |
| 22 | However , although it seems at first sight that prospects for prevention associated with life events are bleak , there are nevertheless a number of realistic possibilities , and it is important to go through these . |
| 23 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 24 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 25 | But while it seems at first quite normal that this should happen at an inquest involving the opera 's central character one soon notices that the process is in fact highly artificial , like the narrations which open several of Britten 's later operas , designed in this instance to have the dramatis personae stand up and be recognised but in a context which fits the story . |
| 26 | It reads at first sight like a selfless Magna Carta for the wild — until you begin to glimpse ( as in that ancient charter ) the barons ' hidden agenda . |
| 27 | We know looks are n't everything , but there 's no doubt that a well-groomed image will win hands down when it comes to first impressions . |