Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] signs [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 2 | The deaths of patients who showed signs of decompensated liver disease before treatment might have been due to spontaneous progression of the disease and can not be linked unequivocally to the interferon treatment . |
| 3 | Thus if we want signs of low morale in the civil service , for example , we could point to the 1981 civil service strike . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cyclamens should be rested in a cool place indoors until they show signs of new life . |
| 6 | Only if they showed signs of overt suffering , such as palpitations or symptoms of unusual aggression , ought the farmer feel constrained to act . |
| 7 | They do not deny change ; but where Pirenne 's followers saw decomposition , they detect signs of economic activity of a new kind . |