Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] clear [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the offence of obstructing a constable was first enacted by Parliament , it seems reasonably clear that it was intended to refer to physical obstruction only . |
| 2 | It seems tolerably clear that , in principle , the offence is capable of commission by words alone , although conduct will give additional force to any words that are uttered . |
| 3 | It seems patently clear that disruptive pupils need more , not less , interaction with their peers and more , not less , involvement in the whole life of the school . |
| 4 | However , it seems equally clear that the defence will frequently be able to raise the issue of consent . |
| 5 | I must say , it seems quite clear that he intended to kill the DO . |
| 6 | It seems fairly clear that it is possible to make this argument in a convincing way . |
| 7 | Baker and Butlin ( 1973 , p. 619 ) concluded from their major edited survey of those field systems that ‘ As the number of local studies has increased , so to some extent has the difficulty of attempting generalizations and it becomes increasingly clear that no single interpretation will exactly fit all the known facts ’ . |
| 8 | As controversy rages over the forcible repatriation of the Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong by the British , and the United States and Britain continue heated exchanges on that and other related matters , such as the possible role of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 's future , it becomes increasingly clear that Vietnam 's legacy is not confined to those who lost and won the war . |
| 9 | Indeed , as experimental psychology of animals evolves from simple behaviourism — the simple response experiments of Skinner — to the more complex information-theory of positive science , it becomes ever clearer that the minds of animals — and I use the word advisedly , meaning their capacity to reason from stored information — are extremely complex , and this imposes a greater responsibility on us . |
| 10 | Once this is recognised , then , while it remains easy to criticise the relativist confusions of Mr Lang and his colleagues , it becomes less clear that France can do without someone like him . |
| 11 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 12 | Certainly this order on financial services , helps because it makes absolutely clear that if an auditor sees malpractice and potential fraud he has an obligation and a duty to report it straight away to the regul regulator , but that will help the process . |