Example sentences of "[adj] sign [prep] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another sign of security was the rising number of households which did not need to buy seeds , but planted their own 634 in the autumn of 1922 , as against 554 in 1920 . |
| 2 | Another sign of liberalization was the end of a ban on beards . |
| 3 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 4 | The only sign of life was a goat chewing on a rag at the corner of a house . |
| 5 | The only sign of life was the horse tethered outside , and it was n't Twoflower 's horse . |
| 6 | Like Valesio , he had been shot through the mouth , but this time the only sign of damage was a single discreet exit wound in the back of the neck . |
| 7 | The only sign of fear was a nervous tremble in the long spindly legs . |
| 8 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |