Example sentences of "there [be] [art] sign of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scrabble is still the best seller and there 's no sign of the Trivial Pursuit bubble bursting either . |
| 2 | There 's no sign of the frailty Joe showed showed on his return last year . |
| 3 | Third thought ( weird — like coming out the flicks ) : I 've been dreaming ; this is the dormitory ; must be late , there 's no sign of the windows . |
| 4 | But there 's no sign of the van . |
| 5 | Just as Bulletin 74 was being published , a Forestry Commission booklet Air Pollution and Forests stated ‘ there is no sign of the type of damage seen in West Germany , occurring in Britain at the moment ’ . |
| 6 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 7 | So far there is no sign of the savage 140mph jetstream wind which descends on Everest in December . |
| 8 | Although voices of dissent are being heard , there is no sign of the supermodel phenomenon abating in the near future . |
| 9 | However , there is no sign of the Elven magical artefact . |
| 10 | Furniture is strewn down the road , but there is no sign of the hapless hero . |
| 11 | There is no sign of the existence of any special unit . |
| 12 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 13 | But when she went into the kitchen there was no sign of the witch 's hat . |
| 14 | It must have been a male tree for there was no sign of the drooping clusters of yellow fruit that female trees would now be bearing . |
| 15 | There was no sign of the occupants . |
| 16 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 17 | Reporters who approached the hotel just after dawn yesterday said there was no sign of the rebels who took over part of the hotel in the exclusive Escalon district of the capital . |
| 18 | There was no sign of the boy . |
| 19 | There was no sign of the girls . |
| 20 | By now the rain had stopped , though there was no sign of the pirate privy . |
| 21 | Fortunately there was no sign of the familiar face at the grimy rear window . |
| 22 | A survey by Gallup and Business Strategies , an economic consultancy , suggested that the tide may be turning , with consumer confidence last month at its highest level for two years , although the authors said there was no sign of the ‘ feel-good ’ factor in replies to questions . |
| 23 | Once the three men had given their names and addresses they were free to go , and there was no sign of the police . |
| 24 | There was no sign of the other brothers . |
| 25 | By two o'clock , Adrar was three miles behind me and there was no sign of the Land Rover nor of any other vehicle . |
| 26 | The track fizzled to nothing ahead and there was no sign of the Land Rover . |
| 27 | There was no sign of the tramp . |
| 28 | Kick-off time was 3.30 , but when the Cobblers took the field at 3.25 , there was no sign of the Coventry party anywhere in the town . |
| 29 | There was no sign of the girl on the shore . |
| 30 | From here we could see for quite a distance , but there was no sign of the hunt , nor any sound . |