• 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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  • 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.

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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  • 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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  • Ellington had his first sight of goal 17 minutes from time, but the former Wigan striker failed to get any power on his long-range strike and Begovic made a comfortable save.

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