Example sentences of "be [not/n't] so clear " in BNC.

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1 As play went , things are not so clear cut .
2 ‘ The facts are not so clear .
3 Although I can recall so clearly seeing my father off to the war , and even more clearly the Zeppelin , the mid-twenties are not so clear .
4 There are some other cases which are not so clear .
5 Erm a lot of people are n't so clear when they 're going straight ahead .
6 Things are n't so clear cut and straightforward as you think Wednesday and that message is best illustrated by looking at your financial affairs .
7 Things are n't so clear cut and straightforward as you think Wednesday and that message is best illustrated by looking at your financial affairs .
8 In North America these struggles were not so clear cut .
9 Socially the definitions were not so clear , though the ‘ middle class ’ obviously included all the above groups , provided they were wealthy and established enough : businessmen , property-owners , liberal professions and the upper echelons of administration , which were , of course , numerically quite a small group outside the capital cities .
10 The dichotomy between private and public sector is not so clear cut as it may appear .
11 What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up .
12 It is not so clear , however , whether the loss of potential output through voluntary unemployment is so serious .
13 What they actually have in common beyond not being ‘ them ’ is not so clear , especially today , and I shall return to this point .
14 It is not so clear what the theoretical foundations ( within psychology ) of the kinship school might be .
15 Evidence from Brean Down , Somerset , is not so clear , but there were drastic changes , and evidence of demolition was followed by what the excavator , A. M. ApSimon , depicts as ‘ squatter occupation ’ .
16 However , the distinction between discretions and duties is not so clear in practice as it is in theory .
17 While Article 34 as a reiteration of the classic rule is almost certainly customary law , it is not so clear that this is true of the more detailed requirements of Articles 35–37 .
18 But in minicomputers , with short word lengths , the distinction is not so clear .
19 But there are occasions when this is not so clear .
20 For some other countries , such as Australia , the prognosis is not so clear .
21 In case ( c ) the law is not so clear and frequently other factors are present out of which a consideration for the promise can be manufactured .
22 In a number of other areas , and particularly , for example , in the provision of investment advice about packaged products , this is not so clear and SIB is not yet convinced that chartered accountants have obtained and retained the requisite level of knowledge — the discussions on this continue .
23 Where local government fits into this is not so clear .
24 If the investor is a purchaser , the risk to capital is therefore limited and known ( the case of the writers of options is not so clear cut and will be examined later ) .
25 The situation is not so clear for events at the tactical level .
26 So why they did it Well why they did it is clear er to make slightly bigger hall , but why they took the risk they did is not so clear .
27 In strong syllables it is comparatively easy to distinguish from , from , but in weak syllables the difference is not so clear .
28 In present-day RP , however , the matter is not so clear .
29 So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear .
30 ‘ If your form is n't so clear , you 're not going to get it right sitting on the bench . ’
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