Example sentences of "signs in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a very complex area but I do think there are positive signs in favour of nuclear . |
| 2 | Fish and chip shops offer discounts to clowns , signs in pub windows encourage you to ‘ come and meet the clowns ’ , shop windows take a clown theme for the week . |
| 3 | The convention considering the incontestable superiority of speech over signs , a ) for restoring deaf-mutes to social life , and b ) for giving them greater facility of language , declares that the method of articulation should have the preference over that of signs in instruction in education of the deaf and dumb . |
| 4 | ‘ Barely audible , Kittykins , ’ Laura confided , putting on a brave show of a scarlet hat and a velvet coat stamped with heraldic signs in gold . |
| 5 | Cyanosis , refusal to breast feed , and the other signs in table III were not independently useful predictors in the regression model in the infants aged 3–11 months . |
| 6 | European Alexandria lingers on in the Italianate architecture , the long lines of balconies along the seafront , in the old shop signs in French and Arabic , in the Greek cafes like Trianon 's and Pastroudis with their air of idleness and neglect , and in old-fashioned pensions like the Hotel Normandie . |
| 7 | Only the signs in front of the numbers are different depending upon whether we read to right or left . |
| 8 | Statically recognisable signs in BSL which were bilaterally symmetric about the midline of the body , presented 4.4° from the central fixation point : these BSL signs included LOVE , READY , FRIEND |
| 9 | The car queue is not long and I am excited by the welcoming signs in Gaelic . |
| 10 | At the National the only clues to their presence are the dozens of shoes neatly paired around a huge makeshift dressing room and the scarlet signs in Japanese on every backstage door . |
| 11 | Handbills appeared , depicting Lord Kitchener admonishing local people , ‘ Your Island Needs You ! ’ and signs in shop windows declared : ‘ No pickets served ’ ( Docherty , 1983:198 ) . |
| 12 | But this knowledge will not alone enable us to understand language in use for this is always a matter of realizing the particular token meanings of signs in association with the context of utterance . |
| 13 | From this theory ( often called ‘ diacritical ’ ) of language and meaning it follows that to study how a language functions we must take as our object not individual signs in isolation , but the relationships that obtain between them . |
| 14 | Signs in use for many referents reflect one or two of these properties , and thus we should not be surprised that comparisons of sign lists result in such a high degree of similarity , as the appearance , movement , and use of an object can be expected to be similar across different cultures . |
| 15 | Even where there are two signs in use for the same verb , as with he bade and he bidded , one immediately recognizes a unity of meaning ( " past " ) . |