(1) For most other Christians, instrumental and vocal music embody praise of the divine, and at best may suggest a foretaste of paradise.

(2) The programme even opens with a theatrically portentous pre-credits teaser, an appetising foretaste of the bloodshed to come.

(3) The freezing rain was a foretaste of winter

(4) As Lorraine recalls, the couple had an early foretaste of what lay ahead as they flew into Havana, the Cuban capital.

(5) A foretaste of the moment of accession to the EU was the ceremony in April when Bulgaria, among others, was formally enlisted in the ranks of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

(6) Back outside the day centre in Inverness, a chill wind blew off the Moray Firth, a foretaste of the approaching winter.

(7) This disaster, swamping highly populated coastal plains, is perhaps a foretaste of what is to come on a more frequent basis as we continue to destroy the environment and the atmosphere that sustains us.

(8) Or is it a meager, yet expressive hint that the forgiveness of sins is a foretaste of eternal life?

(9) The catastrophe [of these] seabirds is just a foretaste of what lies ahead.

(10) September and October are the best months to sample the new wine, giving a foretaste of what the following year's vintage will be like.

(11) The Sars virus alert in 2003 gave a foretaste of what could happen.

(12) Each experience of beauty, in a poem, for instance, is only a foretaste and a sign of what is still greater.

(13) You will not sleep more than a few hours and the illness is less serious than my anger or cruelty and the dark bedroom is like a foretaste of other darknesses to come later which all of us must endure alone but here I am permitted to be with you

(14) His behemoth task force is just a foretaste of what is to come

(15) Although they were high in the mountains, and the wind was from the east, and cold with a foretaste of winter, still, it felt warmer than the gelid air radiating from the White River.

(16) The merger's torturous progress to completion may have given a foretaste of the problems that lay ahead.

(17) After such a dry and thirsty summer it is good that we now have some soft showers to give us a foretaste of what it will be like in the lush rain forests of the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro.

(18) For Bulgarians, the day was declared a public holiday, with formalities, flag-raisings, fireworks and concerts, a small foretaste of similar celebrations that will be held when the day comes to join the EU.

(19) The brief skirmishes in the featured two missions certainly gave an appetizing foretaste of what is hopefully to come.

(20) Here, a little extra altitude gave them all a foretaste of the winter to come.