Example sentences of "by [adv] it was clear " in BNC.

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1 But by 6pm it was clear the final clauses still had to be agreed .
2 By now it was clear to Coetzee 's superiors that , even in the freewheeling world of secret police work , their Section C stalwart was out of control .
3 By then it was clear that fresh trouble was brewing in the Angoumois .
4 By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides .
5 By then it was clear that diplomatic representation was the prerogative of sovereigns alone .
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