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on the face of it
1. Although on the face of it innocuous,
2. It was a pretty tall order on the face of it
3. On the face of it, she did not have anything to say to this man
4. On the face of it, I was dealing with a tough and fine
5. and I aver that, on the face of it, it was a perfectly simple and friendly
6. Bridget on inquiring, found out that as they were both working and their joint income was good, that on the face of it, the bank would be able to facilitate a loan, pending the amount required
7. On the face of it, this isn’t good
8. On the face of it this seems unlikely and, in the two other prior studies of
9. It seems, on the face of it, a simple enough matter to sell shares in a business in order to raise money to expand or improve it, but the complications which arise from the trading of those shares are almost impossible for the layman to understand
10. On the face of it, gravity could be defined as the warping or curvature of space
11. It was so ridiculously easy that he began to wonder why he’d used water fountains and other juvenile means to hide his ill-gotten gains, he paid the rental for three months and received his key, it had a number and the banks logo on the face of it, when he enquired about the number he was informed that it was the number of the key only, and had no reference to the safe deposit box number, then he glanced up as he was leaving and saw the reason why he didn’t feel comfortable in banks, video camera’s that recorded everything that happened in the daily running of any bank
12. On the face of it, this was a triumph beyond all expectation
13. On the face of it, Max thought it would be interesting, and said he would like to know more, before saying yes
14. A sudden shortage of illegal drugs would, on the face of it, be a perfect result for drug enforcement
15. On the face of it a fair question but clearly one that Hank was prepared to answer
16. But on the face of it, and without intimate
17. On the face of it, he was looking to raise money to create a $90
18. On the face of it he was a very mild-mannered,
19. Although on the face of it this should have
20. On the face of it her
21. ’ On the face of it, it seemed a bit odd—nationally televised addresses are normally made only by the prime minister or the president of India, not by the Congress president
22. This appears, on the face of it at least, to be the result of a quite vicious feud that was sparked by the disappearance of the President of Sinn Fein, Mr Martin McFosters
23. On the face of it, this would lead one to assume that there have been no efficiency gains in the conversion of primary energy into final energy consumption; but this is not the case
24. ‘I didn’t apply my mind to that,’ said Sathyam thoughtfully, ‘but on the face of it, given the stringent procedures, it looks a tough ask though
25. On the face of it, it seemed incredible that a man who was so well known, especially to the thousands of police and others in the official and political life of the city, could remain at large unrecognized
26. Wong, who on the face of it appeared a dedicated medical specialist with little to no interest outside his profession, was a firm believer in what could almost be called independence
27. action which appears on the face of it to be without any meaning
28. It was a subject of regret and absurd as well on the face of it and no small blame to our vaunted society that the man in the street, when the system really needed toning up, for the matter of a couple of paltry pounds was debarred from seeing more of the world they lived in instead of being always and ever cooped up since my old stick-in-the-mud took me for a wife
29. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular, in the next house so to speak
30. It has nothing to do with the main fact—can't have, on the face of it
31. On the face of it, the work carried out by Eckerwald’s group was perfectly legitimate
32. Silence seemed, on the face of it, best for her adored one's happiness: silence it should be
33. On the face of it, it is a dead company
34. But the trade wasn’t perfect, and, on the face of it, it might have been improved by:
35. Visual analysis of the chart indicates that this strategy looks good, on the face of it, and deserves further detailed consideration
36. On the face of it, you’d be tempted to congratulate yourself on that 100 percent gain
37. That the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days
38. Halloa! what is that scratch upon the face of it? Just hold a match, Watson
39. On the face of it the arrangement was simple enough : Andrey Petro-vitch might well send the money by his son rather than by post; but the news crushed me and filled me with alarm
40. It carries its refutation on the face of it
41. Ross said that it was strange that the House should have a bill before it contemplating the removal of a certain description of persons out of the country, when nothing of the kind appeared on the face of it
42. On such a question it was but necessary to ask whether the subject be of itself interesting, and whether or not the proposition bears on the face of it so much of probability and propriety that there could be no objection to it on the score of its being utterly inadmissible
43. This, however, was a thing which, on the face of it, appropriated a sum of money for the purpose of making experiments to ascertain the use of the invention
44. If then, sir, I am correct in stating, that no conversations or verbal declarations, however fraudulent, would operate to control or vary the plain letter and intent of the treaty, as appearing on the face of it, then upon the gentleman's own acknowledgments no title to Florida could have passed to the United States under the treaty of 1803
45. But, sir, the promise to lend four millions from a bank of ten millions is idle; it is worse, it is deception on the face of it
46. Sir, the law of the first of May, professed, on the face of it, to be impartial towards the two nations who have violated our rights
47. the objects of this bill do not appear on the face of it, 164;