Example sentences of "to make it [adv] clear [that] " in BNC.

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1 Notwithstanding such criticisms , Tan seems to make it abundantly clear that if any change in the law 's attitude to transsexuals is to be forthcoming , it will certainly not come from the English courts .
2 The rationale behind this decision may be to make it abundantly clear that the child is not the product of the adopters ' relationship with each other or with anyone else .
3 It is time to take into account the feelings and views of the ‘ natives ’ and to make it quite clear that anyone who does not want to be part of the family should n't come to the house .
4 ‘ But I want to make it quite clear that we do n't go out there to harm anyone .
5 At this point I want to make it quite clear that I have discussed Monitor theory in some detail not to criticize it as such ( cf.
6 The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good .
7 I 'm just phoning to make it quite clear that our discussion the other night is no longer relevant .
8 Erm , the other important point I think , if by way of introduction , is in paragraph two , and that is , just to make it quite clear that this is a transfer of funding where people previously went to the Department of Social Security and claimed Income Support in order to assist them in accessing services that were provided by the voluntary and private sector .
9 On the other hand the very nature of the work may be such as to make it quite clear that the duties of the employee to his employer can not properly be performed if he engages in certain activities in his spare time .
10 The stone was placed within a specially designed chair in Westminster Abbey to make it symbolically clear that all coronations of English kings henceforth should be regarded as simultaneous coronations of the kings of Scotland .
11 The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another .
12 Stuart Hyslop , of DTC , said he wanted to make it very clear that neither bus company was complaining about the idea of slowing traffic down on the estate .
13 A spokesman for The Sun later confirmed : ‘ We wish to make it absolutely clear that the tape of the Queen 's message was obtained through a BBC employee . ’
14 I want to make it absolutely clear that general practitioners voluntarily choose to run fund-holding practices and are not forced by the Government to do so — and GPs will take that step only if they can see benefits for their patients .
15 It was n't much of a fall , just one of those nippy little sprinklings that come early in the winter to make it absolutely clear that it is , well , the winter .
16 That was one of the reasons why , when we set up Headline , I called myself sales and publicity director , as opposed to marketing director , because I wanted to make it perfectly clear that we were a combined department .
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