Example sentences of "[adv] clear that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , by 1935 , if not before , it was being made abundantly clear that anti-Semitic outrages and terroristic hooliganism aimed at Jews by Party activists were generally unpopular among the public at large .
2 It is already clear that economic and monetary policy would be profoundly German in nature , but so would the ‘ common defence and foreign policy ’ .
3 The central processes involved in vision are likely to prove much more complicated ( Horridge et at. , 1965 ) but it is already clear that electrophysiological units in the optic lobes of selected Orthoptera , Diptera and Lepidoptera respond differentially when a variety of visual stimuli is presented to the insect .
4 It was already clear that national and territorial disputes could involve substantial loss of life : about ten thousand Soviet citizens were killed or injured in this connection during the years of perestroika , and at least 600,000 became refugees in their own country .
5 It is thus clear that contestable market features help to explain some of the behaviour of firms in the eurobond market , i.e. that it is highly competitive , especially within the individual currency sectors , despite the market structure .
6 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 .
7 Whatever the truth of this suggestion , it is nevertheless clear that other , less speculative mechanisms can be suggested .
8 It is also clear that traditional syntheses between science and faith were badly shaken by new conceptions of nature .
9 It is also clear that current merger policy has been somewhat permissive , for while it has been effective in preventing a limited number of individually important mergers , it has had little impact upon the level of merger activity as a whole .
10 But it is also clear that contrary to the pattern implied by rule 1 , lengthening and raising operate to some extent independently of each other .
11 It is also clear that due to the differences in construction , the measures do not provide the same ranking .
12 It was also clear that feminist involvement had much to do with the opposition purity provoked — especially from men within the state apparatuses .
13 " It is now clear that numerous public investments , often supported by development agencies including the World Bank , have caused damage by failing to take environmental considerations into account or to judge the magnitude of the impacts " , the report says , citing some large dam projects as particularly damaging .
14 With presidential elections coming up in 1994 , it is becoming increasingly clear that political power in Brazil today rests to a large degree with the owners of the mass media .
15 [ I ] t has become increasingly clear that judicial decisions unfavourable to government will face swift statutory reversal , sometimes with retrospective effect .
16 It has become clear over the years that a level of formality is required for fair and impartial decision making , though it is equally clear that proper decision making does not always require ritual conduct or observance of the formal rules of evidence .
17 But it is equally clear that direct , participatory democracy is , if not impossible , at least not very practicable in the modern world , and is in any case a recipe for bad government : " a community in mass is ill adapted for the business of Government … all numerous assemblies are essentially incapable of business . "
18 However it is equally clear that large Japanese companies do hold a powerful competitive edge because of the ease with which they can alter the balance between their own output and that of their smaller suppliers .
19 In the Irish case , it is quite clear that close relationships existed between various politically influential individuals and officials of foreign mining companies ; the president of the Northgate group , for instance , was a personal friend of the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party , and of a number of senior Fianna Fail ministers .
20 As Laffin and Young ( 1985 , p. 59 ) conclude , ‘ it is quite clear that chief officers are going to have to live with an increasingly uncertain and tempestuous political environment and any new ground rules will be of limited value ’ .
21 It is quite clear that British society is racist .
22 Since electricity generation is the world 's largest source of man-made carbon dioxide , it is quite clear that nuclear power can and does make a very significant contribution to its reduction .
23 By the Edwardian period it had become inescapably clear that middle-class evangelism had failed to create a working class in its own image ; the great majority of London workers , particularly , were not Christian , provident , chaste or temperate by middle-class standards , while the artisan and skilled worker had developed social and political patterns of their own .
24 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 .
25 Canon Spence said : ‘ We are delighted that Kenneth Clarke has made it absolutely clear that Catholic parents have the right in law to send their children to the local Catholic school .
26 Thus , in December 1983 it was made very clear that other unions would not encourage the small National Graphical Association when it defied the law over Eddie Shah 's nonunion printing operations in Warrington and insisted on conducting a strike deemed by the high court to be illegal .
27 He was speaking in shorthand in a sense and made it very clear that Scottish circumstances would be taken fully into account , and that I will be reaching a decision in due course . ’
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