Example sentences of "clear [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 2 | Aristotle is particularly clear about this . |
| 3 | Er there wo n't be any hard sell quite quite clear about this . |
| 4 | Immigrants must be made very clear about this . |
| 5 | Let us be clear about this : if we were to deploy naval units , they could be effective only if they were authorised to fire . |
| 6 | Let's be clear about this : I love toads . |
| 7 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 8 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 9 | What it was n't giving them — and they were quite clear about this — was first-class service . |
| 10 | A lot of them philosophise , and let's be clear about this , it 's actually extraordinarily difficult to read erm German archival records . |
| 11 | It became clear during this work that there is some uncertainty and confusion about identity among many Laz themselves , and that representatives of these people elsewhere in Turkey can be very misleading . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're going to have to bloody jump to get yourself clear of this one . ’ |
| 13 | The row being knitted must have the carriage clear of this patterning panel so that the following row can be correctly patterned . |
| 14 | I want to get clear of this mess before anything else happens . ’ |
| 15 | We had our chance to get Number 10 clear of this whole … whole catastrophe , but not you , no , you want a front seat for the opening night of Armageddon , you do … ’ |
| 16 | It is clear despite this that not enough is being done , and the seriousness of the position is still not fully realized by the average person . |
| 17 | Sleeper depressions are very clear along this part of the line , and , apart from that , there are some cut hardwood tree stumps of a size which I could hardly believe , bearing in mind that the line has been closed only thirty-five years . |
| 18 | God , why is nothing ever made clear in this house ? |
| 19 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 20 | What was not clear in this case , though , was whether he would attempt to stay there while Lamb got the twenty-three needed to avoid the follow-on . |
| 21 | What the voters thought about that they made perfectly clear in this year 's election . |
| 22 | The lack of base stacking at this step is clear in this view . |
| 23 | The law is not entirely clear in this area , but it would appear that there are two grounds upon which the third party , the tippee , may be held liable to account as constructive trustee . |
| 24 | The association of race with crime , in the public view , was as clear in this case as in that of West Indian immigrants half a century later . |
| 25 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 26 | What is clear in this exhibition are the changing attitudes towards and perceptions of childhood by adults who control and order where they can seem to have an aim of accurate recall . |
| 27 | lord justice beldam made it clear in this case that the insurer had made it clear they would indemnify the defendant . |
| 28 | Although there has been some ambiguity in previous research about the central-peripheral distinction , it is relatively clear in this case that central should refer to the information which is actually required for the task of driving , the remainder being peripheral . |
| 29 | The meaning of the association is not clear in this study , however , several hypotheses can be proposed . |
| 30 | The prospective meaning of to is thus perfectly clear in this use . |