Example sentences of "[adv] a sign [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |
| 2 | And so it was that , just after five on Friday evening , a large black Bentley , with not a sign of a dent anywhere , drew up outside Lisa 's little terraced cottage and waited while she darted into Josey 's to collect her daughter , then into her own house to pick up their luggage . |
| 3 | If that 's not a sign of a legend in the making , nothing is . |
| 4 | Thick fair hair , a wonderful complexion — not a sign of a spot ! — and those blue eyes ! |
| 5 | She has sold extensively through him over the years , and the appearance of her pictures at this ambitious Italian gallery is not a sign of a rift between the two , but of a desire to give the works wider exposure to the market . |
| 6 | This apparent contradiction of the model by Proust 's text is not a sign of the model 's inadequacy but the reverse . |
| 7 | Although such developments are usually a sign of a firm 's success they are not by any means free from potential difficulty which should be resolved before final decisions are taken . |
| 8 | General noise is usually a sign of a bearing problem . |
| 9 | The stones of the wall did not seem to be held together with mortar , but instead they were keyed so that each lay on the other with hardly a sign of a join . |
| 10 | 10:8 ; Luke 9:2 ; John 11:44 ) were also a sign of the life in abundance which Christ came to bestow ( John 10:10 ) . |
| 11 | For some psychologists , the time needed to become a recognized practitioner or researcher is even a sign of the discipline 's status . |
| 12 | That had been a long , long time ago and we were still reeling through the London streets with never a sign of a park anywhere . |