Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [num ord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This structure is not , as might at first be imagined , derived from a fantasy of power relations modelled on a medieval joust but from the phenomenological account of the constitution of knowledge that works according to the structure of a subject perceiving an object , a same/other dialectic in which the other is first constituted by the same through its negation as other before being incorporated within it . |
| 2 | The process of proletarianisation itself is a more complex issue than might at first be supposed . |
| 3 | This last is less of a restriction than might at first be supposed . |
| 4 | It follows that the contrast between them and Schoenberg 's setting of Dehmel , Schlaf ( Op. 2 ) and Stefan George ( Op. 15 ) is not as great as might at first be thought . |
| 5 | Second , the actual cost , both in time and money , can be very much less than might at first be anticipated . |
| 6 | Compiling this listing has proved that there are more Japanese aircraft extant than might at first be envisaged . |
| 7 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |
| 8 | It was nearing completion , and its completion embodied the hope of that now familiar wholeness so precious to its author : everything seemed to fit together , all experience could at last be integrated . |
| 9 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 10 | On the other hand , even those who listened with loathing or contempt found it easier to have a real man with whom the sneering drawl could at last be identified . |
| 11 | They will at first be assailed after meetings by colleagues saying ‘ Good for you ’ and ‘ I wish I 'd had the courage to say that ’ and ‘ That 's just what I think . |
| 12 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 13 | Unpaid work will at last be recognised as valuable . |
| 14 | Is it too much to hope that , in spite of the worst excesses of this year , Mozart will at last be allowed to grow up ? |
| 15 | The misery that is caused by these lines will at last be wiped out . ’ |
| 16 | It may at first be limited to one target group ( for example , secondary school teachers ) and one or two different media ( e.g. press and radio ) . |
| 17 | Locating a census return for a household in a rural area is a relatively straightforward task , but those historians who are investigating a large Victorian town may at first be overwhelmed by the sheer bulk of the material . |
| 18 | In fact it may not be so different as may at first be thought . |
| 19 | An undercover agent who was tortured and murdered by the I-R-A fifteen years ago may at last be given a proper burial . |
| 20 | For the most cheering news out of Greece today is that the country may at last be getting tired of the bumbly , floppy politics of the past . |
| 21 | If that too decides prices are too high , the record industry may at last be forced to reduce them . |
| 22 | Coupled with last week 's fall in inflation to four per cent , ministers believe the much-vaunted ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may at last be showing through . |
| 23 | Today , one hundred years after his death , we may at last be approaching a sufficient understanding to bring to fruition Darwin 's proposal . |
| 24 | But work on sexual expression can at first be confronting and anxiety-provoking . |
| 25 | Any progress towards the demolition of these foundations will help to promote a less ageist society and , therefore , one in which social justice for all older people can at last be achieved . |