Example sentences of "than [prep] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate , relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes ’ — and there is more to this than at first meets the eye . |
| 2 | A temporary repair was made and they flew on to Karachi , where the damage was found to be worse than at first suspected , as the fastenings had pulled out of one of the fuselage verticals . |
| 3 | The tunnel has proved incomparably more expensive than at first imagined . |
| 4 | The amounts of aid forthcoming from some member countries of the support group also proved less than at first anticipated . |
| 5 | Passats , BMWs , dormer windows , back extensions , wooden garden sheds , all meant something more than at first appeared — white wooden railings , gold nameplates on doors , stained-glass windows in bathrooms , net curtains , numbered dustbins , unnumbered dustbins , sash windows , plate-glass windows , windows with double glazing , windows without double glazing , walls painted white , all of this was part of a body of myth as strange and mysterious as the Epic of Gilgamesh . |
| 6 | We handled more than 6000 toads in the first year and immediately realised that the population was larger than at first envisaged . |
| 7 | As a counterweight to this strengthening of relationships at the CNAA-institutions level the move to weaken the role of subject boards was reversed and the proposals adopted provided for greater integration of the boards than at first suggested . |
| 8 | Damage to wildlife was far less than at first feared thanks to the rare combination of fierce wind and waves , the fact that the light crude was released slowly and heavy rain . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , there is some indication that this decline may be less marked than at first appears due to the nomenclature of the diseases involved . |
| 10 | From this it follows that far more transactions could well be caught under the section than at first appears . |