Example sentences of "may [verb] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 2 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
| 3 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 7 | To marketing departments the technological challenge associated with such an approach may appear at first quite daunting . |
| 8 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 9 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although the supply of these assets — and therefore economic activity — may respond at first , eventually the increase in the money stock feeds through to prices . |
| 12 | Intangible though bargaining power may seem at first , it has several important features . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | In fact , illegal migration may increase at first under the trade agreement , as hundreds of thousands of peasants displaced by recent land reforms in Mexico look for new jobs in the north . |