Example sentences of "the first sign of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ development theory ’ made it too easy to claim that a state 's interests were at stake at the first sign of legitimate criticism . |
| 2 | At the first sign of low winds yesterday morning , Smith , 31 , and Rennie , 28 , left the 24,000 ft camp three on the Lhotse Face for the South Col. |
| 3 | At the first sign of new leaves , give them more water and move them to a warmer place ( about 10–16°C , 50–60°F ) . |
| 4 | Beneath it , at the water 's edge , was a single dom tree , the split palm tree which is the first sign of Upper Egypt . |
| 5 | The first sign of this was two approaches to Gabriel for her services ; one disguised as a joking phone call , the other as a polite invitation to lunch , but both real . |
| 6 | Water conditions can be corrected at the first sign of any trouble with far less chance of an annoying , expensive and let's face it , cruel loss in the tank . |
| 7 | In 1822 , eight years after Thomas Lord [ q.v. ] had moved his famous turf to its last resting place at St John 's Wood , Aislabie became the first secretary of the MCC , the first sign of any real formality of organization . |
| 8 | So he did not understand why Izzie touched him on the shoulder before they began and said , ‘ At the first sign of any trouble , just stop . |
| 9 | The children would be taken straight off Everest at the first sign of any altitude sickness or ill effects , Ms Hargreaves stressed . |
| 10 | After four hours ' play of the sixth round Martin showed the first sign of faltering as he slipped into a bad position against fellow Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers , who is in joint second place with Miles on 4/5 in third place . |
| 11 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 12 | The first sign of postsynaptic neuromuscular junction ( NMJ ) differentiation is the expression of adhesive molecules on the muscle surface . |
| 13 | THE Committee for Socialist Democracy , which has just been formed in riot-torn Timisoara , is the first sign of organised and coherent opposition in Romania since President Ceausescu became Communist Party leader almost 25 years ago . |
| 14 | More significantly , the State Department evinced the first sign of active hostility to Cuba by pressurising the British government into rejecting a Cuban order for military helicopters . |
| 15 | Thereafter , because he patently thought my laughter geometry chart was the first sign of incipient lunacy , I would play the lines , then turn upstage and make a huge gesture demonstrating the sausage shape of the laugh , which never failed to roll him up . |