Example sentences of "what [vb -s] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 2 | He was convincing , too , in getting maximum mileage out of the ingenious variations on what seems at first a not very promising theme . |
| 3 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus , as far as the spadefoot is concerned , it is quite possible that what appears at first sight to be a random collection of toads arbitrarily mating with anything and everything is actually an ordered process . |
| 6 | Poulantzas thus constructs what appears at first to be a morass of categories in continual flux ; but he then extracts from it a pattern of relations which he regards as constant . |