Example sentences of "already [verb] signs [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He say ; Two weeks on his own is enough , this fox is already showqing signs of his natural instincts . |
| 2 | Yet the tension between realism and fantasy already showed signs of deteriorating into mere proximity , not pulling against each other interestingly but merely being slapped down side by side — or — end to end . |
| 3 | Some patients become disoriented , a more likely reaction if the patient is elderly or has already shown signs of mental confusion ( Clarke , 1987 ; Ford et al , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 5 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 6 | The exception — the apparently insatiable appetite for green reading matter — is itself a function of a hyped boom in eco-discourse which already shows signs of peaking . |
| 7 | ( I was determined to combat in advance any risk of being taken over by G(R) , the Middle East equivalent of S.O.E. , which was already showing signs of being the monstrous and inefficient octopus it later became ; or coming under the control of the Director of Combined Operations . ) |
| 8 | The new regimes of Fansidar ( pyrimethamine + sulphadoxine ) and Maloprim ( pyrimethamine + dapsone ) are already showing signs of failure and virtually only one new synthetic drug , mefloquine ( structurally related to quinine ) remains . |
| 9 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
| 10 | The admission of a tenant already showing signs of dementia requires very careful consideration in the individual case . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Down three times in the first , his eyes fused and shiney , he was already showing signs of wear and tear . |
| 13 | Word of it is beginning to get round and the Copts are already showing signs of growing restive . |
| 14 | There could be no doubt about that , the public taste was already showing signs of wanting something else on stage . |
| 15 | He was , Owen judged , about fourteen , a little below medium height and slim , although already showing signs of broadening out like his uncle . |
| 16 | This female mallard was brought into Slimbridge yesterday totally paralysed and she 's already showing signs of recovery . |
| 17 | Labour 's local government spokesman , David Blunkett , has warned that the council tax is already showing signs of becoming as controversial as the poll tax . |
| 18 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |