Example sentences of "seem at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 2 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 3 | But when Felicity arrived , three days later , it seemed at first glance as if she had lost every atom of her old charm . |
| 4 | It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban ; she had saved her day 's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple ; her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better . |
| 5 | For that brief moment she could see the room beyond him and there , jutting out from what seemed at first glance to be a pillow beneath the blanket , the naked foot of a youth . |
| 6 | More important , the big volcanoes which make up the Hawaiian Islands all seem at first sight to have central vents — they are mountains thousands of metres high , with craters right at the top . |
| 7 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 8 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 9 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 10 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 11 | The religious culture of Lérins and of Faustus in particular seem at first sight to be at odds with the rhetorical culture of Sidonius 's own writings . |
| 12 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 13 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 14 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 15 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 16 | Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 20 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 23 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 24 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 25 | Mary seems at first sight to have carried still further the process of reversion : ‘ numbers cause great confusion , ’ remarked Count Feria , Charles V 's ambassador . |
| 26 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 27 | One way of approaching the non-cultural ( or non-social ) aspects of psychological theory is to start with what seems at first sight like a simple series of internal inconsistencies in Freud 's work . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |