Example sentences of "might [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 2 | The impossibility of replication in police investigation is not as crippling as might appear at first sight because it is far less important , or even necessary , in the criminal context than in science . |
| 3 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 4 | In terms of the social system , for example , one might look at first degree courses in terms of social selection and access — one of the functions identified in Figure 1.1 . |
| 5 | For example , we might begin by first attacking the mentalist notion of " privileged access " . |
| 6 | Overall most anthropologists would probably see indirect connection between all the factors which Engels considered , but these interrelations must remain much more problematic and ambiguous than they might seem at first , and the general conclusions which Engels sought in the work of Morgan are not possible . |
| 7 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 8 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 9 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |
| 10 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 11 | This might seem at first sight to express the naive view that onomatopoeia and other kinds of sound symbolism constitute essential features of poetry , but Wimsatt 's conception of the iconic function of language embraces a great deal more than this . |
| 12 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |
| 13 | A curious fact which might seem at first to constitute an exception to this explanation turns out to provide further confirmation of it . |
| 14 | It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand ( being crucial to market growth ) and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability ( being the only thing preventing a phenomenal profits bonanza ) . |