Example sentences of "it [be] not clear that " in BNC.
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| 31 | As theologians have noticed , it is not clear that even God could become somebody other than himself . |
| 32 | It is not clear that Montupet jobs will go to the unemployed of West Belfast . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Second , it is not clear that conditional statements are strongly verified simply by showing that both antecedent and consequent are true . |
| 36 | Only it is not clear that the identification of such a project as state capitalism is damning . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | ‘ 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Contractual arrangements between the parties can lead to disputes , but it is not clear that these are the concern of competition policy authorities . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Moreover , it is not clear that either party could agree to a change and still hold itself intact . |
| 47 | It is not clear that this had a significant effect . |
| 48 | It is not clear that military involvement in such disputes is always undertaken willingly and , indeed , the military 's own attitude in any given situation may crucially affect the ability of the government to pursue its policy . |
| 49 | For while it is true that ‘ different costs for different purposes ’ is an accepted part of textbooks , it is not clear that the idea has been successfully communicated to non-accountants . |
| 50 | However , it is not clear that it is substantially more humiliating and distressing than forced acts of oral sex or object penetration . |
| 51 | However , it is not clear that existing mechanisms ensure that the right quantity of floorspace is available in the right place at the right time . |
| 52 | Although it is not clear that subjective risk can be biased in this way theories of driving which stress a schematic or conceptual representation of the environment ( e.g. Dubois , 1991 ; Fleury , Mazet & Dubois , 1988 ; Groeger , 1988 , 1989 ; Riemersma , 1988 ) might suggest that biases in the perception of the environment would indirectly lead to biases in subjective risk , either because risk is an important aspect of such schemata or because subjective risk would result from the inconsistency between the environment and pre-existing schemata . |
| 53 | Although it is not clear that the extraversion-introversion dimension is the only personality factor related to arousal ( M. W. Eysenck & Folkard , 1980 ) , there is now considerable evidence that there are individual differences in both levels of arousal and the effects of additional arousal ( e.g. Blake , 1967 ; Colquhoun & Folkard , 1978 ; Revelle , Humphreys , Simon & Gilliland , 1980 ) . |
| 54 | However , it is not clear that such memories are completely accurate and it is unlikely that arousal at the time of encoding is the only important factor in creating such memories . |
| 55 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 56 | Moreover , it is not clear that this pattern of results is what would be predicted on the assumption that subjects had schemas for situations previously available . |
| 57 | While not denying that this has an important role to play in any science , it is not clear that it is the method responsible for the discovery of natural laws . |
| 58 | Firstly , it is not clear that data are unavailable for some of the countries . |
| 59 | Although this concurs wit suggestions that magma in caldera-forming systems is produced at rates of around 1km 3 per thousand years , it is not clear that this is a reasonable timescale . |
| 60 | The giver should therefore win the arguments ; but it is not clear that Mr Castro has lost yet . |