Example sentences of "signs [prep] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time was 6.30 a.m. , the bunks on either side of the hut were now showing signs of life and the Sergeant made his noisy way towards the door at the far end of the hut , banging on each bed with his stick as he went . |
| 2 | She soon fell victim , and ceased to show any signs of life . |
| 3 | He was looking at a completely empty street , so lacking in signs of life that it might be a convenient escape route . |
| 4 | There was no doubt now : there were definite signs of life . |
| 5 | Returning the same way half-an-hour later the car was still there and this time there were faint signs of life inside accompanied by pathetic cries for hemp . |
| 6 | As Nell followed , the rows of screens for the first time were blank , showing no signs of life . |
| 7 | In this sense , both are truly radical signs of life ! |
| 8 | The Fulmars continued searching for it and came across it ( or the aircraft forced down by Taylor ) floating on the sea ; there were no signs of life . |
| 9 | Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears . |
| 10 | Andy Lavender looks for signs of life in the Shaw corpus |
| 11 | But signs of life were visible . |
| 12 | They waited at the North Col for three awful days , watching the deserted ridge for any signs of life . |
| 13 | The officer gave her the kiss of life for five minutes before she showed signs of life . |
| 14 | After five months , Wyn noticed the first almost imperceptible signs of life . |
| 15 | Of this great brooding complex mineral creature they had been dropped in the midst of — safely , yes , into a pocket of calm and inattention , locally barren of signs of life … though barren for how long ? |
| 16 | So something was surviving among the ruins.s And there were several other signs of life . |
| 17 | For Lanfranc , all the signs of life which he saw around him when he arrived at Canterbury were in one way or another manifestations of deviation from the norms of contemporary learning and religious observance , and his main aim in all his activities , whether at Bec or at Canterbury , was to strengthen the central normality of any church for which he was responsible . |
| 18 | Three years into the 1990s , signs of life getting better are scarce . |
| 19 | But both the American and British commercial-property markets are now showing definite signs of life . |
| 20 | Broomhead had tied the cabinet to the rave of the cart , lest it fall over and become more scratched if by any faint chance the horse decided to show some signs of life . |
| 21 | Are signs of life absent because these rocks and the limestones directly above are so extremely ancient that all such traces have been crushed from them ? |
| 22 | She joined Defries and Johannsen , who were vainly scanning the horizon for signs of life . |
| 23 | But she put an involuntary hand to her belly , as if checking for signs of life . |
| 24 | They advanced cautiously , wide brims shading their eyes from the climbing sun , constantly on the lookout for signs of life or opposition . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At this hour of the afternoon there were few signs of life in the house . |
| 27 | I was about to get in touch with you — there are faint signs of life on the part of the Probate Office . |
| 28 | On the driest uplands of Antarctica and in oases , encrusting grey and orange lichens Buellia frigida , Alectoria miniuscula , Biatorella antarctica , Umbilicaria decussata and species of Caloplaca , Xanthoria , Usnea and Candelaria may be the only visible signs of life . |
| 29 | Signs of life |
| 30 | They did not dare camp on the western bank where the attack had been ; the eastern bank showed no signs of life but the tangled strips of trees continued along it and they mistrusted what they might hide . |