Sentence examples for show placard from inspiring English sources

After employing Benny Hill as his straight man in a music-hall double act, he was driving back from a lone appearance in Scotland, where he was low on the bill, only to see his ex-straight man's name on a show placard in huge letters.

In the historical district of Cambridge, Mass., she reports, homeowners must get a "certificate of appropriateness" for any significant changes to their houses, and on Nantucket, local hardware stores display placards showing the half-dozen or so historically correct colors that people are permitted to paint their homes.

The puppeteers' defense attorney, Daniel Amelang López, told me that Moreno's ruling seems to imply that "showing a placard is a crime, independent of its context".

In one video published on YouTube, students behind the gates of Tehran University were shown holding placards and chanting while being filmed from outside by plain-clothed intelligence agents for identification purposes.

For all that it was billed a classic Commons occasion – Prime Minister's Questions cancelled, a straight 10 hours cleared for speeches, unusual indulgence shown to placard-bearers on Parliament Square – the political prelude to UK air strikes on Syria fell short by a very long way of the calibre we saw and heard when MPs debated the Iraq War or, to go back much further, the Falklands.

Afterwards Farmer and the three children are shown holding placards with the words "Maman a tort".

Capper remained closely involved and one of the new aeroplanes was exhibited at the 1911 Olympia Aero Show, which a placard stating that it was "Built to the order of Col. J. E. Capper, R.E".

A placard shows a stork delivering a baby that is then driven off in a car.

The placard shows a blonde mother handing out slices of brown bread to her blonde little girls.

Now!" Another placard showed a version of the French government's seal, but with two Mariannes kissing.

A huge placard showed Che Guevara's face in a Pop-art rendition of blue, red, and orange.