Example sentences of "at [adj] sight to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 2 | The way of life which Jesus described in the beatitudes appears at first sight to be a contradiction . |
| 3 | This order , from which our modern days of the week derive ( e.g. iii French ) , appears at first sight to be devoid of sense , since it does not accord in an obvious way with the order in which ( according to pre-Copernican cosmology ) the ‘ planets ’ were thought to lie in relation to the earth : Saturn , Jupiter , Mars , the sun , Venus , Mercury , the moon . |
| 4 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 5 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 6 | Tank had what appeared at first sight to be good credentials , having designed the Focke Wulf 190 aircraft which had given Germany air superiority for eighteen months during the Second World War . |
| 7 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 8 | Thus , as far as the spadefoot is concerned , it is quite possible that what appears at first sight to be a random collection of toads arbitrarily mating with anything and everything is actually an ordered process . |
| 9 | This behaviour seems at first sight to be the opposite of that seen during wound closure . |
| 10 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 11 | The intuitions most relevant to a study of meaning would seem at first sight to be intuitions about what things mean . |
| 12 | Individual points along a spectrum , on the other hand , seem at first sight to be insufficiently distinguished from one another . |
| 13 | The evidence from longitudinal surveys of the unemployed appears at first sight to be not wholly consistent . |
| 14 | The implications for the children 's hearing system of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , appear at first sight to be far-reaching and disastrous . |
| 15 | Although data does not appear at first sight to be a resource of the organisation , it certainly is a resource , as data is essential for the organisation to operate effectively . |
| 16 | The religious culture of Lérins and of Faustus in particular seem at first sight to be at odds with the rhetorical culture of Sidonius 's own writings . |
| 17 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |