The phrase "a material sign" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to semiotics, philosophy, or discussions about symbols and their meanings.
Example: "In semiotics, a material sign refers to a physical object that conveys meaning beyond its literal form."
Alternatives: "a tangible symbol" or "a physical indicator".
These are aggressive displays of the primal male, stripped of all material signs of civility.
Though it's not necessarily a stylistic 180 from his prior Egyptrixx material, Sign of the Cross is a different animal entirely when it comes to the recording process.
Reid never uses the term "association" to refer to the mechanism by which beauty is thus communicated from mental signified to material sign.
Endocrine therapy is well established for early and advanced breast cancer with treatment decisions currently based on the semi-quantitative, immunohistochemical assessment of oestrogen receptor (ER) expression on histological material (SIGN, 2007; National Institute for Health and Excellence, 2009; Hammond et al, 2010).
A thin ring of feathery, gray-white vitreous material, signed out as benign vitreous condensations/vitreoretinal interface changes, was seen anterior to the equator.
Going through specific example related to the context of the Reggio Calabria "Provincia" and its main crops, the paper highlight the need of a method to promote the agricultural landscapes, having particular care to material signs documenting their evolution in relation to the production system.
Begbies Traynor, the business rescue and restructuring firm, said 134,000 businesses still showed "material signs of distress".
"For months, we have been saying that there are no material signs yet of any pick-up in confidence or activity and that the business climate remains extremely hostile.
These new identities are characterised by the "material signs of capitalist prosperity", he explains, but its "confused value system" is not a product of the industry, rather, an existing reality that chalga amplified and solidified.
