Sentence examples for could have at first from inspiring English sources

The provocative title proposed by the editors of the British Journal of Cancer could have at first sight, a quick and intuitive answer: we will need both.

However, if the situation is changed so that there are no replies, then Lizzi and Joanna could have at most first order mutual knowledge that ω = ω2.

In 2006, government ministers provided funding so that "every local authority in England could have at least one centre offering sixth-formers the chance to do the IB".

The infield could have Harmon Killebrew at first, Bucky Harris at second, Joe Cronin at short and Jud Wilson at third.

He may also have thought, like Dickens dreaming of Gad's Hill, and Twain in Hartford — those two other intuitive masters who swept their worlds through comic genius and then deepened and darkened in ways that no one could have imagined at first — that his anxieties about social status and family could be resolved if he became a benevolent paterfamilias in a small suburban town.

That wasn't as clear as it could have been at first.

Puig could have remained at first base but didn't.

In the third inning, Chase Utley could have stopped at second on a drive to the gap that drove home Jimmy Rollins, but Utley raced to third on the throw home.

Had Ramirez put in a little bit of effort he could have been at second base.

Mr. Dangerfield calls the program "the best opportunity I could have had at a second chance".

That account, while denied by American officials, could turn what had at first appeared to be a diplomatic triumph for the United States into a darker, more ambiguous tale.