Example sentences of "the first signs [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspect plants regularly and spray at the first signs of attack . |
| 2 | By 1935 the infamous Nuremberg laws which deprived Jews of their citizenship had been effected ; with them went the boycotting of their businesses , their harassment in public places ( such as education and law ) , and the first signs of ultimate horror — the moves to be rid of them completely . |
| 3 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 4 | Aisling Barnett , who had a liver transplant after a television appeal for a donor , showed the first signs of consciousness . |
| 5 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 6 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 7 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 8 | It was then , just as the first signs of Arab flexibility appeared , that in Israel the notion took root that the renunciation of ‘ grand designs ’ was erroneous in its minimalism . |
| 9 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There appear to be many small churches , often of wood , served by a single priest , in ninth-century Europe ; in England , on the other hand , the first signs of such a phenomenon occur in the tenth century . |
| 12 | Was this the first signs of a coalition in the making ? |
| 13 | As the first results came in , so too did the first signs of a strange disruption in the space-time continuum . |
| 14 | In such cases the first signs of a dialectic occur : the actor is both experiencing and describing ; an oscillation is set up between these two incompatible grammatical constructs , the verb and the adjective . |
| 15 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 16 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 17 | The forelimb begins to develop first ; a small bulge appearing on the flank of the embryo — the first signs of the limb bud . |
| 18 | The first signs of the new eruption were seen on 23 March 1902 when a rambling party were making an ascent of the volcano . |
| 19 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 20 | Was this the first signs of narcissism ? |
| 21 | The disappearance of original traditional jewellery is one of the first signs of this unfortunate trend . |
| 22 | Thus , when in 1970 the first signs of the coming increase in oil prices appeared , France was in a position to decide , for economic and industrial reasons , to have 900-MWe pressurised-water reactors built under Westinghouse licence . |
| 23 | I have always thought boils were a symptom of the first signs of scurvy , caused by a lack of ascorbic acid , vitamin C. Surely diet , rather than lesions and subsequent infection , is a much more important factor ? |
| 24 | This can now be identified as the first signs of the creation of a source of ‘ goodness ’ additional to that due to the ruthless forces of the struggle for survival . |
| 25 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 26 | Ya'acov Friedler , interned with his sister on the Isle of Man , remembers the first signs of the change of heart towards enemy aliens : |
| 27 | The first signs of activity had begun around 4.30pm when a number of men started digging up the road . |
| 28 | The first signs of breeding will probably involve some serious digging activity , often round the bases of the rocks . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | While welcoming the first signs of an upturn in UK demand , boss Bruce Cohen warns that any full-blooded recovery will have to wait until the housing market gets moving . |