Example sentences of "it is [adv] obvious that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you let your eye rove over the map , it is pretty obvious that one of the new towns should be near the Channel Tunnel and another near the new Stansted Airport . |
| 2 | But it is equally obvious that the working class in the advanced capitalist societies has not been , for the most part , revolutionary in its outlook and action ; least of all in the US . |
| 3 | Yet it is not obvious that this was the case . |
| 4 | It is not obvious that governments should always be free to ban them . |
| 5 | It is not obvious that shares are a bargain , though . |
| 6 | In the very long term , automated machinery is likely to incorporate automatic diagnostic equipment in order to simplify maintenance , but it is not obvious that this will necessarily reduce the skill content of craft maintenance work . |
| 7 | It is not obvious that the grounds for his naturalism would evaporate if he took seriously a wider variety of forms of discourse . |
| 8 | Psychological studies could provide some answers , but it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language , identified by the psychologist , will map on to individual brain areas , any more than the computational processes of a digital computer map on to individual parts of its hardware . |
| 9 | In the first place , the limits of the imagination are shifting sands , and it is not obvious that anything which at present lies outside them is forever beyond our grasp . |
| 10 | As it is not obvious that fluctuations in the galaxy distribution should exactly match those of the mass density field ( for example , if galaxies form at the peaks of the mass-density field they will be more correlated than the mass ) , we allow the variance of the two distributions to vary on large scales by the square of a bias factor , b , defined as |
| 11 | And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way . |
| 12 | It is also important to note , furthermore , that while the external labour market may act as an incentive for directors to be more diligent , it is not obvious that it will improve the position where they lack flair or are simply inept . |
| 13 | Even then it is not obvious that this measure will actually yield the projected area . |
| 14 | All the same , it is not obvious that he differed much from his English predecessors in this sort of area , for the Anglo-Scandinavian background outlined in the Introduction again becomes relevant here . |
| 15 | It is sadly obvious that as the author of the guidebook moved further south into regions more and more unfamiliar to him so his prejudices became more and more vitriolic . |
| 16 | There has also been deliberate wooing of parents who had already made their selection , although it is surely obvious that changes in mid-stream can only be damaging , in terms of stability , education and coach/player relationship . |
| 17 | Even in terms of their own theoretical approach , it is surely obvious that in many respects stratification is dysfunctional , producing many negative and damaging social consequences . |
| 18 | It is surely obvious that we can not go on as we are as we pollute the world and as poverty increases , along with violence , vandalism and random destruction , more of it at Gateshead last night apparently . |
| 19 | If we analyse all the uses to which income is put , then it is immediately obvious that for the economy as a whole consumers ' expenditure on goods produced in the domestic circular flow is only one element . |
| 20 | From the results of medical evidence it is blatantly obvious that lead in the atmosphere must be reduced . |
| 21 | It is probably obvious that Community law applies when a stock exchange listing is sought in another member state , or a distributorship arrangement or joint venture is contemplated in another member state . |
| 22 | It is probably obvious that each of these difficulties has an educational flip side . |
| 23 | It is probably obvious that comparability of unitization and assessment pattern , the frequency with which modules run ( often termly for popular Stage I modules ) , common requirements for students seeking the same qualification ( e.g. all honours students are normally required to complete a project ) , and central provision of course-wide performance data , all operate to facilitate monitoring and to reduce the burden it places upon staff . |
| 24 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 25 | However , it is also obvious that the power of GIS has the potential dramatically to increase both the magnitude and importance of errors in spatial databases . |
| 26 | In this political struggle it is also obvious that non-urban areas can not expect to receive equal treatment because politically their numbers are too small to count against the majority , who being concentrated , can receive more social provision at cheaper cost . |
| 27 | And , as it is also obvious that this tendency is becoming a worldwide one , it means that the game will in due course suffer everywhere as it has suffered in South Africa . |
| 28 | It is also obvious that , say , 12 × 80 binoculars will have a much greater light-grasp than the 12 × 40 pair which I used , though there will be more of a problem in hand-holding . |
| 29 | It is also obvious that there are fewer apprentices . |
| 30 | The perks are specifically designed to encourage people to invest in their local water authority despite the fact that it is patently obvious that some are not going to be as attractive as others . |