• By some strange reflex that I had previously never used, I picked up the line - my first and last sight of the ball, I might add - and opted to leave it well alone.

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  • But the pace of the Bluebirds counter-attack was showcased when Andy Keogh, in for suspended talisman Jay Bothroyd, quickly broke to set-up their first clear sight of goal.

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  • At first sight it seems self-evident that falling incomes, rising prices and a squeeze on welfare will mean larger numbers find themselves below the breadline.

    BBC: It��s not the 'squeezed middle', it��s the poor

  • At first sight, the 50m-high metal cage appears to be little more than makeshift scaffolding, and with only six discrete steel cables supporting the structure, the sway of the platform is quite noticeable, even in a gentle breeze.

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  • Lone striker Freddy Eastwood endured a difficult first-half on his home debut, but the Wolves striker finally got his first sight on goal just before the break when his far-post header was blocked for a corner.

    BBC: Wales 0-2 Germany

  • And you do share his wonder at first catching sight of the ship, now half-buried in silt and shrouded in rusticles.

    BBC: Titanic gets 3D treatment

  • Both sides had their first sight of goal courtesy of early free-kicks.

    BBC: Mark Burchill celebrates his goal

  • 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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  • Just after the Genoa summit, he told a foreign-ministry audience that it was only at first sight that globalisation reduced the role of the state.

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  • They fear that by blurring the boundary between health and disease, DSM-V loses sight of a doctor's first duty: to do no harm.

    ECONOMIST: Psychiatric diagnosis

  • He later set his sight on Hollywood, and in 1969 became the first African- American to produce and direct a picture for a major Hollywood studio, Warner Brothers.

    NPR: Tribute to Photographer, Filmmaker Gordon Parks

  • The question seems particularly acute seeing that, at first sight, there seems to be very little in the exclusive-contracts issue for Airbus: none of these airlines (which themselves sought the exclusive deals with Boeing) has shown much interest in buying Airbus aircraft.

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  • The position of Turkey, which is becoming a little too fond of spanner-throwing (see article), and Brazil is at first sight more solid: they say that the resolution has sunk both the chance of talks with Iran and their own plan to remove uranium.

    ECONOMIST: Iranian sanctions

  • Liverpool had barely given Real a sight of their goal and comfortably closed out the first leg last-16 tie.

    BBC: Real Madrid 0-1 Liverpool

  • One of Mr Bremer's first acts was to threaten to shoot looters on sight and to ban high-ranking Baath Party members from office.

    ECONOMIST: America's first transition team has failed

  • 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.

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  • Sun rays are, as expected, absolutely no problem and we have to admit that on first sight we thought the device had a sticker affixed to its front -- its that good at reproducing printed materials.

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  • The nine-times champions of Europe dominated the first half and should have been out of sight at the break.

    BBC: Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon (agg 1-2)

  • Even the recently observed phenomenon of intergenerational epigenetics, which at first sight looks like the inheritance of acquired characteristics (a real Darwinian no-no), probably has less to it than meets the eye.

    ECONOMIST: Richard Dawkins under fire

  • At first sight, girls' rise to mathematical equality suggests they should be invading maths-heavy professions such as engineering and that if they are not, the implication might be that prejudice is keeping them out.

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  • At first sight that is a bargain, because it would save German taxpayers from an open-ended commitment to Greece.

    ECONOMIST: The euro

  • But at first sight, the figures on employment do appear to be more encouraging than one might have expected - an increase of 181, 000 on the quarter and, more modestly, an increase of 75, 000 year-on-year.

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  • Meanwhile, they lost sight of improving balance sheets and excess cash flow, a first for this industry in its 35-year jet history.

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