Example sentences of "clear [conj] he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also wants to make it clear that he 's not ‘ a Unix-on-the-desktop basher . |
| 2 | Whereas Luke 's made it absolutely clear that he 's not interested in anything permanent . ’ |
| 3 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 4 | In other situations , however , PH 's pattern of responding makes it clear that he is recognizing familiar faces at an unconscious level . |
| 5 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 6 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 7 | Although negotiations are continuing between Ken Bates , the Chelsea chairman , and John Duggan , his counterpart at Cabra , the latter has made it clear that he is unhappy with the alternative deal proposed by the club . |
| 8 | From the outset , Cohn makes it very clear that he is bent on taking a walk on the wild side , to chronicle the lives of the losers he meets along this small strip of the Great American Nowhere . |
| 9 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 10 | From his own statements , it is clear that he is word-perfect in his familiarity with the prophetic books of the Old Testament , can quote them at will , can move among them with the facility and expertise of a professional scholar . |
| 11 | Even without knowing the standpoint of Snowden , it is clear that he is condemnatory . |
| 12 | Mark 's promise that the Holy Spirit will look after their words when arraigned before councils for the sake of the gospel is brought into the Mission Charge by Matthew : it seems clear that he is looking forward from an isolated incident in the ministry of Jesus to the continuing mission of the post-resurrection church of which he was a member . |
| 13 | It makes it a criminal offence for the advertiser to fail to make it clear that he is selling in the course of a business . |
| 14 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 15 | On the question of cancellation charges and other matters , the Minister has made it clear that he is not prepared to talk in terms of sums . |
| 16 | Medicine Mr Portillo has made clear that he is examining every possible area of Government spending in the task of cutting the bill before the Chancellor 's next budget in November . |
| 17 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 18 | It was clear that he was no ordinary curate . |
| 19 | When it was clear that he was , Rose cried , ‘ You frightened the life out of us , Daddy . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Gow made it clear that he was not referring to small men in any literal sense . |
| 21 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 22 | He felt that , with a wife and child to support , he should be paid what he was worth , and he made it clear that he was not prepared to give in when he thought he had a good case . |
| 23 | When we met in the lounge it rapidly became clear that he was not in his usual good humour . |
| 24 | To state the identity of a free person made clear that he was not an asocial person but a member of a group of free men . |
| 25 | Only when , in April , Elizabeth made it clear that he was the one Marian exile who would not be welcomed back to England did he accept the inevitable and come to Scotland . |
| 26 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 27 | A memorandum by Frank Jacques to the District Council of 12 March 1955 , and an address he gave to that Council , made it clear that he was in favour of both Recommendations . |
| 28 | When Tommy was interviewed at the time , he made it clear that he was a man with his sights firmly set on the future , and so it is no surprise that in 1991 , Tommy Rodgers is again setting new standards . |
| 29 | To friends and lovers he always made it clear that he was a Jew , perhaps to anticipate and reject the rebuff . |
| 30 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |