Example sentences of "clear that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found .
2 The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them .
3 It was clear that everyone had felt equally proprietorial about Philip .
4 Is not it clear that everyone knows that the Prime Minister has reduced inflation only by creating a deep and lasting recession ?
5 Nevertheless , it is clear that something has happened in Lothian to diminish injecting prevalence among clinic attenders .
6 It is clear that one supplies labour and the other demands it , but do education and business have only this one thing in common ?
7 It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell .
8 On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival .
9 We have made it clear that we regard this scheme as flawed since it fails to provide to those who are legally aided that to which the Act entitled them , namely that solicitors they select will be properly remunerated .
10 Therefore , before embarking on any research project we must make clear that we intend to act on the results .
11 Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg said : ‘ We have made it perfectly clear that we intend to invest lots of money in training .
12 We have repeatedly made it clear that we wish depositors to get back as much of their money as possible .
13 We wold like to make it clear that we welcome new members from both sides of our community .
14 One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed .
15 After we reduced the parts to three , it became clear that we had to remove the work from the centre and reduce it to two elements , which would hold the volumes of the north and the south galleries and make a linkage across the Octagon activating the entire space .
16 She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance .
17 Only you made it clear that we had no future . ’
18 Furthermore , both I and my right hon. and learned Friend have made it clear that we want more education provided locally for adults than is currently available .
19 When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils .
20 We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves .
21 ‘ It is clear that we need to sell and bring in a fair amount of money before we can think about buying again . ’
22 Once we recognise that holists and individualists are pursuing separate interests , it becomes clear that we need a scheme which will accommodate them both , and I have argued that the Annales school offers us the seeds of such an approach .
23 I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war .
24 ‘ We have made it clear that we accept the principal Father Caden is talking about . ’
25 It seems clear that we face a similar ( though not identical ) situation with regard to old age abuse .
26 We have made it clear that we see no case for a further massive increase in the structural funds .
27 It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing .
28 Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world .
29 ‘ But I want to make it quite clear that we do n't go out there to harm anyone .
30 John , in the prologue to his Gospel , makes it clear that we do not become God 's children by natural means , that is , by being born as children of a human father , but by receiving Christ as God 's son and our saviour ( John 1:12–13 ) .
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