Example sentences of "signs [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research and practical experience have also highlighted some warning signs about appraisal schemes : |
| 2 | It was reported that signs about dog fouling , and notes for motorists who park on the green pointing out that the car park should be used , are now available . |
| 3 | The similarity between signs can thus be accounted for by historical links , borrowing of signs through contact between signers , or cultural universal propensities to label concepts in particular ways . |
| 4 | This is a pragmatic matter of achieving meaning by using linguistic signs as evidence . |
| 5 | At enrolment and at the end of each treatment period , subjects and their closest relative or friend completed a questionnaire about symptoms and signs during hypoglycaemia . |
| 6 | Ox-bridge colleges only display ‘ closed to visitors ’ signs during exam time , for the sole reason of allowing students peace and quiet in which to study without coachloads of tourists trudging past the window . |
| 7 | In more specific terms of the language , Newport and Bellugi ( 1978 ) were able to show that deaf people are not deficient in category structure in ASL because there appear to be no signs for category names such as ‘ tool ’ or ‘ furniture ’ . |
| 8 | RAYTHEON SIGNS FOR ALPHA |
| 9 | SUNPRO SIGNS FOR ROGUE WAVE 'S C++ CLASS LIBRARIES |
| 10 | CONVEX SIGNS FOR DOLPHIN 's SCALABLE BUS TECHNOLOGY |
| 11 | There was Lodowyck 's universal language , for instance , in which a sign for a radical ( eg primitive verb , to light ) was set on a musical stave , with signs for augmentation leg that wherewith the thing is acted ) set adjacent to it . |
| 12 | Entering Collias , follow signs for Kayak Vert canoe hire centre , and park near this by the river . |
| 13 | The last observation about dictionaries or word lists is that they may under-represent similarities between different sign languages : for example , the American and British signs for WALK are quite different , but British signers would certainly use a sign resembling the American sign in certain contexts . |
| 14 | Below : In February 1977 , this car ran out of track , when its driver returning to the depot at night , ignored the warning signs for track under repair . |
| 15 | It is clear that the choice of signs for comparison will affect the results of such an exercise ; a balance must be sought between too small a number and too great . |
| 16 | Phil signs for team he loves so well |
| 17 | They headed south-east from the city , the Ferrari moving as fast as the wind , following the ‘ Via Tuscolana ’ signs for Frascati where , Nicolo insisted , they would find the best white wine in the world . |
| 18 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 19 | Mr Mowatt agreed to look into current printer problems — three laser printers are now unable to print £ signs after installation of font cards . |
| 20 | The world and everything in it shows signs of order and pattern , but such signs are inexplicable without the mind of a Planner . |
| 21 | Mr McLean will have none of the stirring signs of contrition on the part of the SMG . |
| 22 | In young animals this is based on : ( i ) The clinical signs of inappetence , weight loss and diarrhoea . |
| 23 | Of course , from a strictly scientific viewpoint these individual biographical studies can be criticised on the grounds that they are biased towards rather special cases ; added to which , as Becker points out , such accounts were usually written by clinicians whose professional interest in the abnormal inevitably caused them to focus on signs of pathology . |
| 24 | Cox 's preference for understating — or perhaps not looking for — early signs of pathology , even in those of her subjects who later showed it , is understandable if one recalls the origins of her study . |
| 25 | Every day she visited his bedside to chat and search for signs of response in his lifeless body . |
| 26 | The first signs of activity had begun around 4.30pm when a number of men started digging up the road . |
| 27 | An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] . |
| 28 | In other words , how do you distinguish between those changes in neural activity that reflect the coding of information in the brain and those that are merely signs of activity with no functional significance ? |
| 29 | Bernice , I 'd like you to check the grounds for signs of activity . |
| 30 | For one awful moment she had thought he was gone , but those signs of activity proved otherwise . |