Example sentences of "may appear [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 7 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |