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 | Her hair no longer showed signs of its natural curl . |
| 13 | The plunge in new car sales in Britain finally showed signs of bottoming out in September . |
| 14 | Tests on earlier buildings so treated revealed that up to one in twenty houses soon showed signs of damp penetration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His old lady was bearing down in her chair and generally showing signs of getting off the psychic runway in double-quick time . |
| 22 | ( 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 . ) |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
| 25 | The admission of a tenant already showing signs of dementia requires very careful consideration in the individual case . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Down three times in the first , his eyes fused and shiney , he was already showing signs of wear and tear . |
| 28 | Word of it is beginning to get round and the Copts are already showing signs of growing restive . |
| 29 | There could be no doubt about that , the public taste was already showing signs of wanting something else on stage . |
| 30 | He was , Owen judged , about fourteen , a little below medium height and slim , although already showing signs of broadening out like his uncle . |