Example sentences of "they [verb] signs [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , on March 1 , the United States government had banned all further economic and military aid to Sudan in accordance with a policy that military regimes which acceded to power via a coup would be denied aid unless they demonstrated signs of preparing a return to a democratic system within eight months . |
| 2 | Choose large , firm , healthy specimens that are not visibly diseased or damaged and plant quickly , before they show signs of sprouting , as this can affect subsequent growth and flower quality . |
| 3 | We ca n't stand up and lecture them on self-reliance and personal responsibility and then wade in and take over as soon as they show signs of doing what we want . |
| 4 | Cyclamens should be rested in a cool place indoors until they show signs of new life . |
| 5 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 6 | Roofs should be repaired as soon as they show signs of trouble — check for slipped slates and tiles , failed flashings around chimney stacks and damage to the chimney stack itself . |
| 7 | But these connections are complex and as yet imperfectly mapped and understood ; and they show signs of recent change — a new ‘ volatility ’ of political moods , for example . |
| 8 | A psychologist will keep tabs on teams of youngsters and will stop the operation if they show signs of stress . |
| 9 | A traveller or two , pedlars and shepherds , were persuaded to join the few hundred who were there by the weight of glowering disapproval from dozens of faces when they showed signs of passing by . |
| 10 | Only if they showed signs of overt suffering , such as palpitations or symptoms of unusual aggression , ought the farmer feel constrained to act . |
| 11 | They showed signs of wanting to take the whole operation over , but Coffin , backed up by his Inspector , would have none of it . |
| 12 | Firstly , they found from eight of the better designed studies that ‘ mothers of schizophrenics are more concerned , protective , and possibly more intrusive than control mothers both in the current situation and in their attitudes to the children before they showed signs of schizophrenia ’ . |
| 13 | They do not deny change ; but where Pirenne 's followers saw decomposition , they detect signs of economic activity of a new kind . |
| 14 | But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein , so presumably they saw signs of something better . |
| 15 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 16 | Both Marxists and Christians suffered from these fears , as if they detected signs of ‘ the last things ’ in the tension between the superpowers . |