Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] signs [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 2 | Before long , I saw more signs of agriculture , on a pathetically primitive level . |
| 3 | G. takes a sample in the ditch , which shows clear signs of sewage fungus , with its tell-tale grey strands waving in the water . |
| 4 | The density of tree crowns and the proportion of dead shoots both indicated a worse state of health , except for beech , which showed small signs of improvement . |
| 5 | Not until the exhausting struggles with Sweden and Poland in 1654 – 67 did she show real signs of growth and expansion . |
| 6 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |
| 7 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 8 | Even in Queen 's County , in the Great Heath of Maryborough , still technically in Leinster , they saw appalling signs of starvation — though it moved John far more than it seemed to move MacMinimum . |
| 9 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |
| 10 | He noticed tiny signs of strain : finger-tapping , abrupt yawning , twitching of the eyes . |
| 11 | For the short term it sees patchy signs of improvement and no speedy recovery . |
| 12 | Revealing losses matching the company 's ( shrunken ) turnover in Germany , IBM chairman John Akers says he sees real signs of recovery . |
| 13 | He sees few signs of complacency but a greater appreciation of hazards and a commitment to taking the right precautions , which he considers are the surest way of accelerating progress towards a safer future . |
| 14 | Pope John 's ‘ optimism ’ was later criticized — why should he ignore apocalyptic signs of disaster to concentrate on those that gave grounds for hope ? — but hope was in such short supply in 1961 that his words were eagerly seized upon ( Moltmann , 1977 , p. 368 , n. 64 ; The Extraordinary Synod of 1985 likewise gave a more ‘ pessimistic ’ reading of the ‘ signs of the times ’ ) . |
| 15 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |