Sentence examples for so at first sight from inspiring English sources

So at first sight, it's easy to sympathise with the Tory chairman Eric Pickles, who says it's "ridiculous" to blame the expenses scandal on the voting system.

So at first sight this yearning for personal fulfilment seems to be at odds with France's inflexible eating habits (set meal times, unchanging format – starter, main course, dessert – and limited scope for special diets).

The takeover battle raged for six months before Arcelor's bosses finally listened to shareholders who wanted the board to accept Mittal's third offer.The story tells us two things about European business, both positive (though they may not seem so at first sight).

In international affairs, Libya's Colonel Gaddafi makes Don Quixote seem like a Machiavellian intriguer, so at first sight, the almost certain impending "election" of Libya to provide the president of the UN general assembly for 2009-10 could be the occasion for some wry humour.

So at first sight it makes sense to harness that by burning it in an incinerator to make electricity.

AT FIRST sight, not much has changed.

AT FIRST sight it seems utterly confusing.

The branches are coated with a thin skin of plaster or white paint so that, at first sight, they seem bleached of life, sapless and forlornly skeletal.

While the connection between network topology and HGT might not seem so direct at first sight, it is nonetheless expected, we believe, insofar as HGT do affect the gene repertoire and hence the molecular interactions within biological networks.

One was gloomy and one optimistic, so they looked at first sight contradictory.

Or so it seems at first sight.