Sentence examples for seems first from inspiring English sources

Information on the lacquer process seems first to have been published by the Italian Jesuit Martin Martinius (Novus Atlas Sinensis, 1655).

The currant seems first to have been cultivated sometime before 1600 in the Netherlands, Denmark, and elsewhere around the Baltic Sea.

But the song seems first sensational and then diplomatic; it ends with the line "I don't believe that God is dead".

He wrote a simple melody to a wistful poem written by a German soldier in the first world war and had it recorded by Lale Andersen, a smoky-voiced cabaret singer whose rendering is regarded by connoisseurs as still the best.The song seems first to have been taken up by Germans fighting under Erwin Rommel in the North African desert.

It seems, first, that Hawking's self-identifying was just factual in terms of what most people, especially the readers and writers of our tabloid press, would define as "the elite", rather than any claim to be superior; and, second, that in all areas of inequality the weaker have little hope of gaining equality unless the stronger support them.

The ancient habit of sorting philosophers into schools or groups seems first to have been applied to Aristotelian philosophers by Franciscus Patritius[26] in his Discussiones peripateticæ.

It seems first-hand.

Griff Jenkins, on the other hand, always seems seconds away from a lampshade on the head.

Special cases of (1.1) seem first to have been investigated by Lasalle [2] and Bihari [3].

Prince Rupert's drops seem first to have attracted scientific interest in Germany in the 1640s.

Everything I wrote seemed second-hand, boring and impossibly crude.