Example sentences of "sign [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , they played in blue strips and Nicholas could not face the prospect of signing for a team that wore the same colour of shirts as Rangers , and so he returned to Celtic Boys Club to await his calling from Paradise . |
| 2 | In the case of a sale of leasehold property where the lessor 's licence to assign is required , the form of licence sometimes requires signing of a counterpart licence by the seller , and frequently by the buyer too , whereby the latter explicitly becomes responsible for the tenant 's covenants in the lease ; this is a reminder in case the seller must execute the document . |
| 3 | The usually respectable FRAME News , the newsletter of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , published it in full ( 1988 : 1–2 ) , and Langley in the Dr Hawden Trust 's Alternative News analysed with some alarm ( he signs of a fight back on the part of the American medical establishment after many years of tactical passivity known as the ‘ bunker strategy ’ ( 1988 : 6–7 ) . |
| 4 | Oct. 1 had been the date set for signature of the accord , the main points of which had been agreed on Aug. 7 [ see p. 39039 ] , but on Sept. 29 Dhlakama announced that he would not sign as a number of issues remained to be resolved to his satisfaction . |
| 5 | The Tykes switched from Pakistan 's Aqib Javed because he would have to be given a two-year contract under TCCB rules while 21-year-old Benjamin could sign for a year . |
| 6 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 7 | I did n't think I 'd be able to keep my sanity or my family if it happened again , but there was no way I was going to let him make me sign for a loan I did n't want . |
| 8 | I find it frightening that an artist can sign with a gallery for five years . |
| 9 | But one of Charles 's achievements was to ensure that all his children who reached adulthood , male or female , could at least sign their names ; his daughter Elizabeth had produced a most business-like signature at her marriage in 1802 and , here at All Hallows , Benjamin signed with a flourish , above the rather more demure attempt of his new wife . |
| 10 | Hasted disputes the King but Jaenbert was Archbishop from 764–793 Dart in his History of Canterbury , states that he signed to a Charter of the same prince of lands at Hallynges , Jaenberthus . |
| 11 | The young man was passed through the crowd , looking haggard , and he signed without a word . |
| 12 | Erm I I I signed over I signed over a number of thousands of pounds erm n nine years ago , eight or nine years ago with regard to the matrimonial home which Alison still lives in with my son Ben today . |
| 13 | It stemmed from a declaration on principles of co-operation signed during a meeting between Mitterrand and the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , in Paris in July 1989 [ see pp. 36821-22 ] , and envisaged among other things the setting up of a single intergovernmental commission to replace existing commissions . |
| 14 | The agreement , signed during a meeting at the UN between Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and his South Korean counterpart Choi Ho Joong , followed a meeting in June between President Roh and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 15 | Signed as a location manager for Rob Reiner 's A Few Good Men , with Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore , Mr Reiner decided that Mr Bodison would make a great performer . |
| 16 | IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co distributor Dickens Data Systems has been signed as a master VAR . |
| 17 | Icke , whose only previous North-East connection was in forecasting that Teesside later amended to Tayside would be under water by Christmas , has been signed as a goalie by Jewson Wessex League club Ryde Sports . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) An instrument shall not be a deed unless — ( a ) it makes it clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed by the person making it , or , as the case may be , by the parties to it ( whether by describing itself as a deed or expressing itself to be executed or signed as a deed or otherwise ) ; and ( b ) it is validly executed as a deed by that person or , as the case may be , one or more of those parties . |
| 19 | Throughout 1990 rumours spread that a less-busy Shabba had signed for a major , which finally happened when CBS picked him up in America at the end of last year , and worldwide earlier this year . |
| 20 | The real-life lovers have been signed for a movie . |
| 21 | People add a little on and eventually I have signed for a club and sold my house . |
| 22 | Hartlepool striker Ricardo Gabbiadini , 22 , younger brother of Marco , has signed for a month 's trial , with a view to a possible longer-term deal . |
| 23 | The convention was signed after a meeting in Bucharest , Romania , which was also attended by international organizations such as the UN Environment Programme , the World Bank , and the UN Economic Commission for Europe . |
| 24 | A careful user and comparer of sources , he often draws attention to discrepancies between them , and sometimes criticises their reliability , noting , for example , that Cædwalla of Wessex 's confirmation of a Glastonbury grant was signed with a cross although he was a pagan at the time . |
| 25 | Since the 1987 majority over the Tory was a feeble 56 , 42-year-old Meale ( ‘ a Geordie ’ according to yesterday 's Guardian ) has taken to giving women voters photographs of himself , signed with a kiss . |
| 26 | This confident young brewer , then aged 34 , paid £100 down , signed with a flourish that famous signature on a 9000 year lease at an annual rent of £45 from Mark Rainsford III , and rode through the gate to take possession of his destiny . |
| 27 | Mexico had taken the initiative for this round of talks and had indicated that it would like to see an agreement signed within a year , although ministers were careful not to commit themselves to deadlines . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , if there 's no hiccup in the negotiations , the Agreement will be signed within a couple of months or so . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We usually get anywhere between five and 20 letters signed in a day ’ , says Trish Bissett , ‘ and we 've recruited new members through the shop ’ . |
| 30 | Having got signed in a hurry , Blink wisely decided to take their time and get their first records right . |