Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [be] clear " in BNC.

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1 I want to be clear that the House realises what we are doing .
2 What I , and I having heard the director , what I want to be clear about , is that any decision which relates to closing local schools on , on economic grounds comes to the full county council , and is , is not dealt with by education .
3 Now really it 's the same thing , do n't be afraid you ca n't be afraid to ask because if you 're not clear in your own mind how the hell is the person who 's trying to communicate with you going to be clear .
4 This is why , before you embark on any kind of anti-drug crusade with your children , you have to be clear where you stand — and not just on the subject of heroin .
5 This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden .
6 The move surprised some who thought that IV was an ageing technology : ‘ You need to be clear about the direction you and your customers want to go before investing in a system , ’ says Neil Walker , TSB 's senior training manager .
7 You need to be clear about what you mean by " raising standards " .
8 You need to be clear that for both of you what is going on is OK and creative of mutual satisfaction .
9 Any situation with any person you need to be clear in your mind what you want before if there 's any dithering if there 's any way I 'm not sure that will stop ya it 's being sure being convinced of what you want is you know exactly what you want you know which direction you 're going in .
10 okay good point and that is that is a point , that you need to be clear about what you want to role plays on as good as the real thing you know but then again sometimes you know sometimes I 've listened to people saying well role plays are a bit harder than real life harder than real life why are we talking about being assertive now .
11 So I think you need to be clear on what you are going to use them for .
12 Adrian Titcombe , the FA 's crowd management co-ordinator , said : ‘ We want to be clear where the trouble occurred so we will study all the reports before coming to any conclusion . ’
13 We needed to be clear about the nature and purpose of English as a school subject .
14 To be engaged in the same strategy , we need to be clear that we have fully entered into this same understanding .
15 We need to be clear what is meant by competition , and different kinds of competitive behaviour need to be separately evaluated .
16 Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it .
17 So having said that I thought that there were more important issues for the council to discuss , I do n't think it 'd be fair to let this second debate on the subject pass without actually making a few er er a very short erm a few short remarks cos I think we need to be clear about the issues .
18 But I think we need to be clear whether we are talking about ordained or lay people and further on in the discussion whether we can indeed justify that division .
19 One of the things that we need to be clear about is that erm computers are not unlike us .
20 So we need to be clear as to what we define as violence , and how we see violence in society .
21 Through these holes the hot air rose from the kill underneath and roasted the barley , so they had to be clear .
22 They need to be clear , they need to be simple words , they do n't need to be complex ones , because you 've got to put over what you 're saying very clearly .
23 I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence .
24 On page one o eight paragraph two point two er , the society proposals of the er , in accordance with the objectives we 've taken out overall , it wants to be clear that it must mean it 's in total , the objectives .
25 However it began to be clear that despite our good possession we were short on attacks .
26 It seems to be clear that not enough use is made of solicitors for the solution of legal problems .
27 Since a lot of hard work was involved for staff and parents , it had to be clear that the purpose was always first and foremost for the benefit of the particular school .
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