Example sentences of "which [verb] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 2 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 3 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 4 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 5 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 6 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 7 | Within this simple framework of social resentment it was soon possible for him to nurture an obsessive anti-Semitism , which seems at first to have no specific origin in his emotional experience . |
| 8 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 9 | This presents gaps in the text which surprise at first , but then allow the imagination to intervene and to draw on the richness and depth of the images to fill the spaces with one 's own interpretation . |
| 10 | In this way a mostly desperate body of art , which had at first shocked the American public , was transformed by speeches , articles and the context in which it was displayed , into an ideological weapon for the defence of Individualism and the right to express oneself . |
| 11 | The very scenery which had at first terrified people as recorded by Gilpin and others was steadily becoming attractive to visitors . |
| 12 | The societies , which had at first been purely local became national , with branches throughout Britain . |
| 13 | The girl , whoever she was , despite the aristocratic looks and fine body which had at first misled them , would only have found houseroom within the palace compound as an under-servant . |
| 14 | The participation of the SKP-Y , which had at first rejected the plan , was in doubt until the April congress . |
| 15 | Michael Hardman , Graham Lees , Bill Mellor and Jim Makin decided to launch CAMRA , which stood at first for the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale . |