Example sentences of "[art] sign [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policies did not develop on the terrain of racism , however , but under the sign of culture . |
| 2 | It is the object 's relationship to the social group which is crucial , rather than its ability to perform a transformation of nature under the sign of utility . |
| 3 | Is this the sign of wrinklydom ! |
| 4 | If than 2{gth}1 is positive , we take 2{gth}1 to lie in the first quadrant ; if negative , in the fourth , Then{ gth } 1 lies between unc = c is positive and unc has the sign of tan 2{gth}1 . |
| 5 | The sign of success is an unchanged team and once again Denis Smith can keep a settled side . |
| 6 | To put this more concretely , there can be legitimate arguments about the nature , quality and function of a listener 's response to the actual sound and structure of , say , an Elvis Presley or Bing Crosby song ; what is not legitimate is to move this ‘ thrill ’ , however defined , bodily across the theoretical topography so that it sits wholly under the sign of commodity-fetishism . |
| 7 | Eggs are an international symbol of Easter , the sign of rebirth and new life . |
| 8 | Culpeper regarded it as " a hot martial plant in the sign of Cancer , the leaves being put into gargarisms for sore throats " , and it was another of Dioscorides " plants for curing the hiccups . |
| 9 | This is an imaginary world where fiction would be indistinguishable from fact because , like the novel , it would be under the sign of potentiality . |
| 10 | The Sign of Quality |
| 11 | Once the sign of Heaven was clear , there was then nothing disloyal in transferring allegiance to a new emperor , for he was blessed by the ancestral spirits of China . |
| 12 | He lost so much weight that he wore two suits , one on top of the other , because he despised the sign of toll . |
| 13 | One simple measurement reveals whether a two-dimensional surface is curved and determines the sign of curvature . |
| 14 | Now P is a surface of positive curvature like a spherical surface , while N has negative curvature , and so the difference fixes the sign of curvature . |
| 15 | The low was internalized under the sign of negation and disgust . ’ |
| 16 | We have seen and suffered the sign of world change . |
| 17 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 18 | Deaf people in the audience waved their hands in the air — the sign for applause . |
| 19 | He stirred as below stairs the maid tinkled a bell , the sign for dinner . |
| 20 | Rather , it is entirely by virtue of the sign in question that we distinguish a class of objects trees from other objects such as bushes , etc . |
| 21 | Oh it 's pedestrians I can read the sign from back there . |
| 22 | Incidentally , the pineapple is a sign of hospitality , making this a very appropriate dish to serve at a party . |
| 23 | That 's always a sign of freshness in the chrysanths . |
| 24 | Timing his new album release in the US for election day could be interpreted as a sign of Ice Cube 's inflated self-importance . |
| 25 | I quicken my step , keeping my eyes fixed ahead , hoping for a sign of life about the croft . |
| 26 | I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take offence and leave me , if not permanently , then for a few days , without giving me a sign of life , and so leaving me in anguish . |
| 27 | Not a sign of life in the whole vast house higher up Eaton Square which was the company 's billet , until he and the CO discovered the inmates all prostrate under their beds in full marching order . |
| 28 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 29 | Really sort of as a sign of service erm to , to community . |
| 30 | In other parts of the Americas , settlers had been done away with , by what means nobody later could discover , for new arrivals would find the incomers ' stockade deserted , with not a sign of struggle . |