Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] first glance " in BNC.

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1 The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century .
2 ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving .
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 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 .
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