Example sentences of "sight [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight the revolt of 1381 is different . |
| 2 | At first sight the election of a former Communist to become the country 's next president may appear surprising , but there are a number of factors which were in his favour . |
| 3 | At first sight the cone shell does not appear to be particularly dangerous but it carries a secret weapon that can cause an unusually painful death . |
| 4 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 5 | At first sight the Supervisor looks much like any other pair of sunglasses fronted by a mirrored , shatter-resistant polycarbonate shade . |
| 6 | At first sight the outcome may seem to depend on which of the combatants is the stronger or more skilled . |
| 7 | At first sight the microscope would seem to be just the sort of classical measuring instrument that Bohr and his friends had in mind . |
| 8 | Furthermore , we also need to keep in sight the fact that ‘ creativity ’ is itself an ambiguous concept , having been given various meanings and judged according to differing criteria depending on the context in which it has been studied . |
| 9 | Whenever Roydale put his nose in front , Fringe found a bit extra , but it seemed there was n't much between them , and with the end of the wood chippings in sight the contest was still undecided . |
| 10 | At first sight the house did not appear to be much . |
| 11 | At first sight the house seemed very little changed , except that the area of grass about the porch had been scythed . |
| 12 | At first sight the paradox that liberalism requires not only freedom of contract but also freedom to breach any contract is quickly resolved . |
| 13 | Quantity of fashion garments that were not sold in the closing down sale — At first sight the basis that looks obvious is the net realizable value . |
| 14 | It is better to train with such a person in a first rate department even if at first sight the research project is not quite what you wish to study . |
| 15 | With the town of Polzeath in sight the path hugs the coast all the way around Pentire Point — the beach at Hayle Bay marks the start of the town . |
| 16 | AIRCRAFT of the US Coast Guard are a familiar and welcome sight the length and breadth of the United States . |
| 17 | At first sight the solution looks easy : attempt less , more slowly . |
| 18 | At first sight the failure of conditioned suppression to show context-specificity ( as in Fig. 4.5(b) ) looks like evidence against the notion that contextually mediated retrieval is a factor of general importance in associative learning and performance . |
| 19 | It , too , believed recovery was in sight a year ago and bid up shares aggressively . |
| 20 | The fact that the use of the bare infinitive should give rise to an impression of impoliteness or vulgarity is at first sight a bit surprising , but when considered in the light of make and have , examined above , the reason becomes clearer . |
| 21 | Apathy , lack of confidence and previous discouragement to use sight actively for learning may contribute to the less effective use of the sight a child does possess . |
| 22 | It would be wiser to stay out of sight a while longer . |
| 23 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 24 | Miriam , unable to endure this harrowing sight a moment longer , had fled from the tiger house . |
| 25 | From somewhere out of sight a cockerel crows . |
| 26 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 27 | At first sight a matter of user opinion , assessment of convenience is more involved and should be the subject of objective rather than subjective analysis by a technique known as decision path analysis ( DPA ) . |
| 28 | At first sight an association between NFC and a cycle campaign organisation might seem a little unusual . |