Example sentences of "[vb base] to be clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does mean that in analysing the effects of what appear to be clear cases of monopoly , we know where to look for the source of the problem . |
| 2 | Adrian Titcombe , the FA 's crowd management co-ordinator , said : ‘ We want to be clear where the trouble occurred so we will study all the reports before coming to any conclusion . ’ |
| 3 | I want to be clear that the House realises what we are doing . |
| 4 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 5 | Yeah I just want to be clear on wh |
| 6 | What I , and I having heard the director , what I want to be clear about , is that any decision which relates to closing local schools on , on economic grounds comes to the full county council , and is , is not dealt with by education . |
| 7 | I want to know what has happened and then we can criticise it , but I first want to be clear |
| 8 | The first is to draw attention to what I and others believe to be clear injustices in the way in which he was treated before his death and the second is to expose the fact that the injustices faced by Mr. Docherty affect many others in similar circumstances , and are a direct consequence of Government policy . |
| 9 | I th I 'm not challenging that , I simply wish to be clear what you mean by it . |
| 10 | This is why , before you embark on any kind of anti-drug crusade with your children , you have to be clear where you stand — and not just on the subject of heroin . |
| 11 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 12 | Commentators need to be clear about whether they are enquiring into interviewees ' reading or their politics . |
| 13 | The move surprised some who thought that IV was an ageing technology : ‘ You need to be clear about the direction you and your customers want to go before investing in a system , ’ says Neil Walker , TSB 's senior training manager . |
| 14 | To be engaged in the same strategy , we need to be clear that we have fully entered into this same understanding . |
| 15 | Before the selection process begins , candidates need to be clear about what the job abroad entails . |
| 16 | You need to be clear about what you mean by " raising standards " . |
| 17 | You need to be clear that for both of you what is going on is OK and creative of mutual satisfaction . |
| 18 | We need to be clear what is meant by competition , and different kinds of competitive behaviour need to be separately evaluated . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , Laura , I really need to be clear about one or two things before I can see my way forward . ’ |
| 20 | Teachers need to be clear about the way in which different issues are decided . |
| 21 | They need to be clear , they need to be simple words , they do n't need to be complex ones , because you 've got to put over what you 're saying very clearly . |
| 22 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 23 | Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it . |
| 24 | So , we just need to be clear that er , we 're not actually endorsing the list necessarily . |
| 25 | So having said that I thought that there were more important issues for the council to discuss , I do n't think it 'd be fair to let this second debate on the subject pass without actually making a few er er a very short erm a few short remarks cos I think we need to be clear about the issues . |
| 26 | Any situation with any person you need to be clear in your mind what you want before if there 's any dithering if there 's any way I 'm not sure that will stop ya it 's being sure being convinced of what you want is you know exactly what you want you know which direction you 're going in . |
| 27 | okay good point and that is that is a point , that you need to be clear about what you want to role plays on as good as the real thing you know but then again sometimes you know sometimes I 've listened to people saying well role plays are a bit harder than real life harder than real life why are we talking about being assertive now . |
| 28 | It does require that , unlike other committees , the er officers need to be clear who our regular members of personnel sub actually are . |
| 29 | But I think we need to be clear whether we are talking about ordained or lay people and further on in the discussion whether we can indeed justify that division . |
| 30 | So I think you need to be clear on what you are going to use them for . |