Example sentences of "it is [adv] clear that " in BNC.
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| 31 | Moreover , it is not clear that the changes which took place were related so much to any general process of social change as to the specific economic and social changes which occurred in Sri Lanka . |
| 32 | Similarly , when we turn to care at home , it is not clear that if the costs of such support were to exceed those of residential care , they could or should be met . |
| 33 | In addition , it is not clear that pesticides will travel through the unsaturated zone as readily as nitrate does — they may , for example , be adsorbed by clays . |
| 34 | The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science . |
| 35 | B-trees are very good for storing numbers ( for example ORACLE the relational database stores its indexes as B-trees ) , but it is not clear that they are particularly useful for storing words . |
| 36 | in addition , it is not clear that the re-ordering is in the direction of simplifying the causal structure of the story . |
| 37 | This ‘ conventional ’ behaviour is described with scare quotes because it is not clear that one would be justified in reading into it the constellation of reciprocal beliefs and intentions that someone like Lewis takes as constitutive of conventional behaviour . |
| 38 | McHaffie and Stein ( 1982 ) have also reported eye movements after colliculus stimulation in rats , although it is not clear that they are true saccades . |
| 39 | This would n't be surprising in some ways , since it is not clear that the visual system is organized in the same way in all species . |
| 40 | However , it is not clear that arguments for or against this possibility will cast light on the differences between holists and individualists concerned with social explanation . |
| 41 | It is unclear what attitude the new administration takes to Japanese investment , but if it were politically acceptable , sale of a large part , if not all , the company to 4.7% shareholder NEC Corp would make the most sense , although it is not clear that NEC would now be interested . |
| 42 | Yet it is not clear that Thailand is well-placed to move on to the next stage of economic development . |
| 43 | The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case . |
| 44 | As theologians have noticed , it is not clear that even God could become somebody other than himself . |
| 45 | It is not clear that Montupet jobs will go to the unemployed of West Belfast . |
| 46 | Of course , the effort required is a true social cost ( it reduces the manager 's utility , and the manager is a part of society ) and so it should be an offset on the social benefits , but nevertheless it is not clear that this mechanism described will lead to the socially efficient amount of effort being supplied . |
| 47 | Another complaint is that it is not clear that all the matters discussed in part III , perception , memory , induction and a priori knowledge , are forms of knowledge . |
| 48 | Second , it is not clear that conditional statements are strongly verified simply by showing that both antecedent and consequent are true . |
| 49 | Only it is not clear that the identification of such a project as state capitalism is damning . |
| 50 | Certainly , examples can be found where the growth of the enterprise has involved the creation of massive technical operating units ( in the car industry and the shipyards for instance ) but it is not clear that this trend will continue , and in some cases technological change is already undermining the competitive advantage of those enterprises operating very large-scale units . |
| 51 | First , it is not clear that a ‘ rational ’ capitalist would necessarily wish to subordinate and cheapen the mass of labour to the greatest possible extent . |
| 52 | The standard left response to the kind of argument put by Gaitskell was that the party should be ‘ more socialist ’ and would thereby gain more working class support , but it is not clear that the left opposition within the party had a political project which could have commanded mass popular support among the working class in the 1950s . |
| 53 | It is not clear that she currently has any diplomatic status , though there is some evidence that the United Nations may still for some purposes recognise her ambassadorship . |
| 54 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 55 | The local authority , on the other hand , say that ‘ the care given to the child ’ in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) means the care given by the mother to the child in this case and that , in any event , it is not clear that the child would go to the grandmother 's if a care order was not made , because the mother is still claiming , or was still claiming , that the care should be given to her . |
| 56 | Contractual arrangements between the parties can lead to disputes , but it is not clear that these are the concern of competition policy authorities . |
| 57 | There was a finding that the contractors were at fault with regard to the old shafts , but it is not clear that they should have realised that their conduct would affect the plaintiff 's land and even if this had been the case there would have been a serious issue at that times whether the defendant was liable for the negligence of his contractor . |
| 58 | Education regarding the potential dangerousness of the drug in overdose may prevent accidental deaths , but it is not clear that this alone will prevent death among those who impulsively overdose with this drug . |
| 59 | Moreover , it is not clear that either party could agree to a change and still hold itself intact . |
| 60 | It is not clear that this had a significant effect . |