At first sight this seems strange, since the venture-capital industry in Britain is second only to America's in scale.
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At first sight this is only going to persuade the converted.
At first sight this seems bonkers.
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At the sight of this cortege, an incongruous roaring shakes the crowd, where shaggy adults and slender youths vie for the choicest places.
At first sight, this might seem eccentric and even borderline delusional.
The most immediate sign of this is somewhat technical, at first sight.
At first, this proved deceptively easy: most of what I wanted to know was hiding in plain sight, at my local library.
This is further helped by their terrain, which at first sight appears to be a tangled mass of mountains and hills running irregularly in all directions, but is actually hemmed in by well defined ranges on the outer periphery that make penetration of the area difficult.
This week, I also called in at a conference which at first sight was a bit high brow, but turned out be fascinating.
The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.
This is that identical twins may not be as identical as appears at first sight.
In the past we've seen a tongue-based computer interface or two, the BrainPort sight-via-papillae solution, and this week, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced a sensor about the size of a business card that detects and identifies fourteen common sweeteners -- including Splenda, Sugar in the Raw, and Sweet'n'Low.
ENGADGET: Electronic tongue tastes, identifies sweeteners so you don't have to
And while at first glance this seems to be a downside -- an elephant hiding in plain sight -- it has actually served to keep it unnoticed for at least two years.
In this case, we chanced upon Sony's Xperia sola hiding in plain sight at Sparhandy's booth.
ENGADGET: Sony Xperia sola: a pint-sized Android handset with floating touch (hands-on)
We know, you started yawning at the sight of the headline, your ears will pop with relief by the middle of this paragraph, and you'll finish up somewhere around the Read link.
ENGADGET: Aequitas iGala Wireless Digital Picture Frame is touchscreen photo-browsing perfection
This has been a dismaying spectacle, but the overdue end of it may at last be in sight.
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