Example sentences of "[num ord] signs [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight these changes were the first signs of Sjögren 's syndrome . |
| 2 | Similarly , young emerging leaves and shoots that have not yet developed a tough skin are easier for fungus spores to penetrate as they are for sucking and biting insects , and this is why the first signs of mildew especially are always to be found on such tissue . |
| 3 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 4 | The first signs of activity had begun around 4.30pm when a number of men started digging up the road . |
| 5 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 6 | Gastrulation , in the sense of continued ingression through the streak , persists up to and during the 10th day of gestation , but towards the end of the 8th day the first signs of organogenesis are apparent . |
| 7 | The first signs of instability appeared in the south-east in Kent . |
| 8 | The first signs of guilt being attached to the motor vehicle as the cause of the smog occurred during November 1949 when the Universities of California and Washington State football teams played a game at Berkeley , north California . |
| 9 | The first signs of contamination were discovered just 18 months ago . |
| 10 | And , first signs of life . |
| 11 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 12 | The old nomes grumbled among themselves , and scanned the sky anxiously for the first signs of robins or reindeer . |
| 13 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 14 | The attention-grabbing deal comes as the US market , which in the past has made up more than 40 per cent of sales of the Coventry-produced supercars , shows the first signs of upturn in three years . |
| 15 | Was this the first signs of narcissism ? |
| 16 | Inspect plants regularly and spray at the first signs of attack . |
| 17 | The loyalists saw the toleration of ‘ rebel ’ meetings as being the first signs of weakness which would only encourage the nationalists in their campaign to destroy Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | For pre-industrial society , youth was a long transition period lasting from the first signs of independence of the young child to marriage . |
| 19 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 20 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 21 | Tenderness and a tingling sensation may be one of the first signs of pregnancy and there will be an increase in the number of superficial veins you can see . |
| 22 | Twenty two months after the first signs of bowel symptoms , 20 months after the first complaint of knee pain , and 14 months after finishing steroid treatment both knees were clinically normal . |
| 23 | In the first signs of protest since the events of June , students from the Beijing Aeronautical Institute held a demonstration in violation of martial law on Dec. 9 , criticizing China 's economic performance and media censorship . |
| 24 | The first signs of trouble came when the Ynys Mon Express of Sunday , July 19 had to be diesel piloted from Rhyl after it was ruled that Black Five 5305 was a particular risk . |
| 25 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 26 | Inexplicable laughter would , I was sure , seem to my mother yet another of the first signs of madness . |
| 27 | Aisling Barnett , who had a liver transplant after a television appeal for a donor , showed the first signs of consciousness . |
| 28 | A perfect baby , Merrick showed the first signs of deformity at the age of twenty-one months . |
| 29 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |
| 30 | In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic . |