Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt blind , and longed for second sight . |
| 2 | But gifts of second sight meant she could sense the sinister , too |
| 3 | If agreement for mutual exchange is not reached at an early stage , the defendant will have the advantage of first sight of at least one of the plaintiff 's medical reports . |
| 4 | I can tell you , well not always but sometimes people from first sight I can tell . |
| 5 | And reigning champion jockey Michael Roberts was in tremendous form at Chepstow 's evening meeting , completing a 215–1 treble on Second Sight ( 5–1 ) , Haunted Wood ( 7–2 ) and Tendresse ( 7–1 ) . |
| 6 | On first sight it might seem a case of plus ca change , plus c'est la meme chose . |
| 7 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
| 8 | On first sight I thought the building the ugliest in Milan , but my opinion changed a little after seeing the Via San Barnaba façade , which is less sense-slaughtering and even has some redeeming features . |
| 9 | And yes , that fireplace gave me as much pleasure always as I had imagined it would on first sight . |
| 10 | In many ways , their crazy actions are analogous to the hysteria of young girl pop fans , who on first sight seem to be totally out of control , but can clearly be shown to be engaging in an intentional , conscious and structured activity . |
| 11 | On first sight , ‘ election year , might seem appropriate , but in 1974 there were two elections in a year , and even if all three attributes were part of the key , there are still duplicate relations . |
| 12 | He was a Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean , a man somewhat flamboyant in dress and manner , not only a ladies ’ man but one of the most dedicated womanisers in the University ; a man who patently , almost on first sight , appeared self-centred and self-seeking . |
| 13 | This is perhaps a more useful analogy than might at first sight appear . |
| 14 | At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them . |
| 15 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 16 | Understanding in this sense means being able to perceive structure amongst a set of observations that were at first sight perplexing and confusing . |
| 17 | At first sight , the reader might doubt whether even people without brain injury usually possess significant lip-reading skills . |
| 18 | It was love at first sight but , little did they know , this growing pup — out in the big , wide world for the first time — would wreak havoc |
| 19 | At first sight the obvious answer might be to convert all images to some enormously high resolution which would satisfy any possible requirement . |
| 20 | At 77/467 and again at 80/512 , reference to the ‘ quai ’ or ‘ quais ’ at or of ‘ Siracusa , seem not much less adventitious , in the sense that location in the Sicilian city of Syracuse seems , at first sight anyhow , not to be significant . |
| 21 | What on earth can have induced Labour and Conservative politicians alike even to consider hitching their wagons to something which , at first sight , makes the poll tax look like a pre-election bonus ? |
| 22 | Although the move was hailed as sensational at first sight , the vagueness of the language used to promise ‘ travel opportunities ’ and ‘ media that are close to life ’ failed to convince observers that the leadership had significantly softened its attitude . |
| 23 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 24 | The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co-operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . |
| 25 | At first sight the very core of party support appeared to be rotten . |
| 26 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 27 | Eliot is able to recall Shakespeare closely enough to suggest at first sight that an ironic contrast is aimed at , but also to present the possibility that the allusion functions as the poetic equivalent of a legal fiction . |
| 28 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 29 | From far above the glacier looked like modern art , a canvas of grey-white curiously etched with black lines that appeared random at first sight , but in which a symmetry could at length be discerned . |
| 30 | The degree to which publicans ‘ invested ’ for this reason in football is unknown but the pecuniary advantage at first sight seems doubtful . |