Example sentences of "it is clear [conj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Exactly similar inferences can be made in cases like example ( 18 ) , and it is clear that such inferences are fundamental to our sense of coherence in discourse : if the implicatures were not constructed on the basis of the assumption of relevance , many adjacent utterances in conversation would appear quite unconnected .
2 Although the reference to memory is not as direct as in the other questions it is clear that such decisions at the strategical level are based on memory in at least two separate ways .
3 It is clear that such forms are designed primarily to protect the hospital from legal action .
4 It is clear that such gaps restrict methods of handling data ( see chapters 5 and 6 ) ; for example data for age- and sex-groups could not easily be aggregated .
5 It is clear that such districts should be the point of contact with the local population .
6 It is clear that such occasions brought together , often from many countries , knights who were brought up and trained in the same martial traditions .
7 It is clear that all participants in the planning process will require information , although of different types , and the amount required by each level will depend on the type of planning management .
8 Total membership fluctuated widely around 5,000 and it is clear that many members only stayed with the Party for a short time .
9 It is clear that many others — perhaps Lanfranc too — saw this .
10 In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State .
11 Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary .
12 Constituency party activists were certainly mostly pro-Thatcher , but it is clear that many MPs used the secrecy of the ballot to oppose her .
13 It is clear that these women subscribers lived in the best parts of London .
14 Out there , in the darkness , it is clear that these hounds have friends , sisters , cousins , uncles .
15 Although it is clear that these changes were made in order to admit light to the new , deep-plan living accommodation , it is conceivable that the judicious use of ranges of standard reversible and ventilating roof windows might have provided an answer to this requirement which would have been less erosive of the original external appearance .
16 However it is clear that these students who did not meet the GER had passed through a rigorous process of selection , and a number of them already had two A-level at the time of entry .
17 Ata'i , in his biography of Molla Shams al-Din ( d. 982/1575 ) , writes that " he traversed a few ranks in medreses ' before turning to medicine ; in this case it is clear that these medreses are well below the level .
18 It is clear that these remedies are largely inadequate .
19 Whatever defence is mounted , it is clear that these films , for Levin , exist as auratic objects , and Debord their auraticised progenitor .
20 It is clear that these eigenvalues belong also to the matrix
21 In view of the formulae ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) it is clear that these results hold whether or not B , C are conformable both in the order BC and in the order CB , including the case where both are square .
22 It is clear that these organizations have different points of unity depending on the concerns of their members .
23 However , it is clear that some collocations only exist in particular inflected forms [ Schuetze , forthcoming ] .
24 From the present findings , described later , it is clear that some theses are quite widely consulted , and the majority lead to the formal publication of research results in journals and books which , presumably , reach a wider readership .
25 It is clear that some groups of animals , like the proboscideans ( elephants and allies ) , are much reduced now compared with the late Tertiary , both in variety and geographic distribution .
26 But at the same time it is clear that some periods display radical situational change , while others , in between these , are periods of relative situational stability , when day-to-day conjunctural movement assumes a more prominent position in the historical picture ( see Gramsci 1971 : 175–85 ) .
27 It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community .
28 While it is clear that both institutions have been concerned about their disappointing financial results , neither has been able correctly to identify the causes of their distress , let alone face the facts .
29 If neither does it is clear that both processes have exactly the same possible communications , and furthermore any environment which can deadlock with either can deadlock with SKIP ALT(G1) or some SKIP option within G3 .
30 It is clear that both earnings per share and PE ratios can be dubious quantities , yet investment analysts make extensive use of both in attempting to estimate the true values of firms and in making comparisons between firms .
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