Example sentences of "at first this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 2 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 3 | At first this was arranged on a private basis . |
| 4 | And at first this beast had made a low girning , growling sound , but now he hushed his threatening , and waved his tail slowly , and the little grey man said , ‘ Otto is of the opinion that you are honest . |
| 5 | At first this way to immortality was essentially a royal prerogative , but eventually similar rites were thought to confer immortality on anyone who could afford to imitate them . |
| 6 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 7 | At first this left me speechless , but after a while I began to ask ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 8 | At first this might sound a little too simple — or a clever exit from responsibility — but if thought about can be seen to be true . |
| 9 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 10 | At first this was a slow process but as the group got bigger the church planting gained in momentum . |
| 11 | At first this was forthcoming , social stability mattering for more than religious principle , but the next forty years saw a growing split in the ranks of the Sussex leaders as Puritanism spread and the remaining Catholics came under suspicion for their dual allegiances . |
| 12 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 13 | At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends . |
| 14 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 15 | At first this was interpreted as a separate medusa-like form , but it appears in a number of specimens in just such a position and some now think that it may have been a holdfast . |
| 16 | At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts . |
| 17 | At first this might be a mixture of music , dance and drama , in a regular ‘ children 's slot ’ . |
| 18 | Though at first this is quite hard to do , it does come with constant practice . |
| 19 | If at first this proves too difficult , an alternative method of grabbing the ankles may be substituted until the area becomes more stretched and flexible with use . |
| 20 | At first this seemed strange to some of the staff who saw it as only one step away from slavery . |
| 21 | At first this strategy produced disappointing results , as the French authorities in North Africa , Indochina , and Syria rallied to Vichy . |
| 22 | At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible . |
| 23 | At first this seems anomalous . |