Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] signs [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did apparently display signs of hypochondria , however — Herbert Read remembered how he was " addicted to pills and potions " and , according to another friend , he kept a variety of pills in his lower waistcoat pocket — but hypochondria , if such it was , was only one aspect of a larger nervous disposition . |
| 2 | The source of supply in the sea might perhaps shown signs of exhaustion , and the fishermen might have to resort to more distant coasts and to deeper waters , Nature giving a diminishing return to the increased application of capital and labour of a given order of efficiency . |
| 3 | Apart from Couples , Americans like Payne Stewart , Tom Watson , Mark O'Meara , Davis Love and Raymond Floyd have all shown signs of form . |
| 4 | They will nevertheless be eagerly awaiting signs of defections to their ranks among other right-wing deputies . |
| 5 | New evidence also proves that it causes a chemical reaction in the skin , attacking and destroying collagen and elastin — which keep skin supple — and so hastening signs of ageing . |
| 6 | Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears . |
| 7 | He say ; Two weeks on his own is enough , this fox is already showqing signs of his natural instincts . |
| 8 | It 's easy to forget the neck in a cleansing routine but it will soon show signs of wrinkling if neglected . |
| 9 | Non-slip runners : parquet flooring in traffic lanes , such as hallways , will soon show signs of scuffing , however good the varnish used . |
| 10 | If your experiments are blessed , the ovary will soon show signs of swelling and the unventilated plastic bag can come away as the stigma is no longer receptive . |
| 11 | The budget 's prediction that the current economic recession would be short-lived , and that the economy would soon show signs of growth , was widely doubted especially in the light of the latest unemployment figures and economic indicators [ see below ] . |
| 12 | In heat exhaustion ( when the person has the symptoms of mild shock — cold , clammy , pale , tired , nausea , raised heart rate , they may also have muscle cramps ) if the level of consciousness is affected ( drowsy and dull ) or they do not show signs of increasing strength and vitality after an hour of cool rest . |
| 13 | That the economy did not show signs of recovery once hostilities had ceased had more to do with the political choices made by the Franco regime than with the economic structures themselves . |
| 14 | Her hair no longer showed signs of its natural curl . |
| 15 | The plunge in new car sales in Britain finally showed signs of bottoming out in September . |
| 16 | Tests on earlier buildings so treated revealed that up to one in twenty houses soon showed signs of damp penetration . |
| 17 | Yet the tension between realism and fantasy already showed signs of deteriorating into mere proximity , not pulling against each other interestingly but merely being slapped down side by side — or — end to end . |
| 18 | Some patients become disoriented , a more likely reaction if the patient is elderly or has already shown signs of mental confusion ( Clarke , 1987 ; Ford et al , 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 20 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 21 | The exception — the apparently insatiable appetite for green reading matter — is itself a function of a hyped boom in eco-discourse which already shows signs of peaking . |
| 22 | It was flown by Benjamin , two days before Christmas 1991 , and has so far not shown signs of problems associated with the originals . |
| 23 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
| 24 | However , as Carole Ann Ford pointed out , anyone viewing the episode with hindsight can easily spot signs of great anxiety among several of the cast required to cross that gaping ravine . |
| 25 | His old lady was bearing down in her chair and generally showing signs of getting off the psychic runway in double-quick time . |
| 26 | ( I was determined to combat in advance any risk of being taken over by G(R) , the Middle East equivalent of S.O.E. , which was already showing signs of being the monstrous and inefficient octopus it later became ; or coming under the control of the Director of Combined Operations . ) |
| 27 | The new regimes of Fansidar ( pyrimethamine + sulphadoxine ) and Maloprim ( pyrimethamine + dapsone ) are already showing signs of failure and virtually only one new synthetic drug , mefloquine ( structurally related to quinine ) remains . |
| 28 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
| 29 | The admission of a tenant already showing signs of dementia requires very careful consideration in the individual case . |
| 30 | Already showing signs of life , patients were brought in one by one from the pile next door and wedged on to the chair in Room I , which looked like what it was , a laboratory in the Hygienic Institute , a world of bubbles and bottles . |