Example sentences of "it is clear [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In reply , Michael Hutchins , director of conservation and science for the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums , stated : ‘ It is clear that zoos must be concerned about animal-welfare issues .
2 Sometimes it is clear that siblings do not like each other .
3 When one considers that the main reason that words are absent is that they are proper nouns , which will also be unavailable from the larger lexicon , it is clear that omissions are unavoidable .
4 But it is clear that companies should have a strategic approach to the issue just as they would with R&D .
5 The ‘ fashion ’ phase of recent years seems to be over , and it is clear that planners have to justify their place in the agency by their value to the agency and its clients .
6 From his commentary on Aristotle 's Physic , it is clear that Aquinas could never regard the Greek philosopher as an authority on matters of faith .
7 However since controls are imposed to achieve specific policy aims ( eg to reduce inflation ) it is clear that prices and incomes policies are more likely in some periods ( eg when inflation is high ) than others .
8 As this has been combined with a general relaxation of Industrial Development Certificate controls on the location of industry and reduced real spending on regional policy , it is clear that resources are being redirected from rural areas .
9 While some schools did evaluate in committee the development of the library in the context of the project — and it is clear that developments in pedagogy were attributed at least partly to the project — we were not made aware of any which specifically monitored the number of times children and teachers borrowed or read books purchased specifically with project funds .
10 From a purely cultural perspective , it is clear that developments in France were by no means a faithful reflection of cultural developments in the Soviet Union .
11 While we can not be certain about the precise structure it is clear that departments will have four main functions : assessment , purchasing of care , inspection of services and direct care provision ( Figure 8.2 ) .
12 Nevertheless , it is clear that charters were often important in determining ownership , as the quantity in which they were produced implies , and that boundary clauses could be taken very seriously .
13 To recapitulate , it is clear that differences in national legislation may not only have the effect of preventing a good or service produced in one state being sold in another , but may also distort conditions of competition between manufacturers or suppliers located in different Member States of the Community .
14 It is clear that firms are taking the regulatory regime seriously ; nearly all have taken steps to comply with audit regulations .
15 Turning to the impact of corporate discretion on communities more generally , it is clear that decisions about the location of company activities can have major implications for the economic , environmental , social , and cultural well-being of urban centres and entire regions .
16 As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time .
17 However , it is clear that benefits help to reduce income inequality .
18 It is clear that countries with fixed exchange rates and those with flexible exchange rates face difficulties when they experience inflation rates higher than those of their major trading partners .
19 It is clear that Ministers are intent on a campaign of vilification and attack on Mr. Bruce Millan , the European Commissioner responsible for regional development .
20 It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice .
21 The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day .
22 Yet it is clear that things are not as straightforward as later Christian tradition would have one believe .
23 In the nuclear family with small children it is clear that parents normally are in charge .
24 It is clear that ratepayers have standing to challenge a wide variety of decisions , including expenditure decisions , by local authorities ; whereas it is clear from the Fleet Street Casuals case that the right of taxpayers to challenge decisions of the Revenue concerning the tax liability of other taxpayers , let alone to challenge policy decisions of central government , is limited .
25 It is clear that individuals in the ‘ higher ’ occupational groupings are far more likely to have high incomes and to be owner-occupiers than those in the lower groupings , and it is also clear that children of higher category parents have a much better chance of extending their education beyond the minimum , and of qualifying for higher status occupations themselves ( Goldthorpe , 1980 , Halsey et al . ,
26 If the cumulative burden of all this is descriptive of the fine chemicals industry , it is clear that manufacturers of such products are aiming very high indeed .
27 While it is clear that politicians and zaibatsu groups were the object of a more aggressively nationalist movement in rural areas , there was also some strong anti-landlord sentiment .
28 As these variables were , in turn , closely linked with economic change , it is clear that historians need to look critically at the position of women within the household and the labour market .
29 There is no one right way to behave , but it is clear that teenagers suffer when parents overprotect , as well as when they leave them to their own devices and appear not to care .
30 It is clear that clauses of all these types operate to restrict the remedies available on a breach of contract ; they do not prevent a breach occurring .
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