Example sentences of "[vb pp] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have received clear evidence from opticians in our constituencies that the imposition of charges runs contrary to the concept of preventive medicine . |
| 2 | But a furlong out Mill Reef had sprinted clear , and only Pistol Packer could deny him the greatest moment of an outstanding racing career . |
| 3 | When you are appointed a chairman of a nationalised industry , you are given clear objectives by your Secretary of State , and you have to see that your immediate colleagues and indeed the whole team are aware of , and are striving to achieve , these objectives . |
| 4 | The precise nature of the tax incentives remains to be decided , but it appears the ECMT is proposing that motor manufacturers should be given clear incentives to make more environmentally friendly vehicles . |
| 5 | It seems to me manifest that in a world in which sexual activity is more and more openly presented in all media , in which sex is exploited for purposes of advertisement and entertainment at every level , and in which people 's sexual proclivities are discussed in the plainest terms , children at school need to be given clear information from an early age , and a chance to have their questions answered at various stages of their school career . |
| 6 | It can be seen in this chapter that Green has given clear directions from where the picture should be painted . |
| 7 | Some fences can be deceiving from a distance , so the horse must be given clear aids as to what to expect so he is not taken by surprise . |
| 8 | Dale 's studies of fetal response to moderate cardiovascular exercise showed increased breathing movements , transient bradycardia or tachycardia , or changes in uterine bloodflow , but there does not appear to be a systematic study that has given clear guidelines for safe levels of maternal exercise . |
| 9 | Take a bird from its burrow in the breeding season and transport it to Boston , USA ; release it — and it could be home in twelve days , given clear skies . |
| 10 | The only appropriate demands that we can make , as we have already remarked , is that we should be given clear examples where they are or are not at work , and that we should be shown how they interact with one another and with more complex factors in ways that lead to verifiable claims about data . |
| 11 | All patients received a traditional two day bowel preparation and were given clear liquids during this time . |
| 12 | The software company which supplied the package is not unsympathetic but claims that it was just not given clear and sufficient guidance as to what was expected of the software . |
| 13 | Regrettably , however , having given clear guidance as to what is not reinstatement , no help is to be found in Tagro as to what will suffice for this purpose … |
| 14 | Mick had accelerated and the men had jumped clear . |
| 15 | The hit squad blew her vehicle off the road , and she was lucky to have jumped clear before the main explosion . |
| 16 | The driver , from Kempsey near Worcester , had jumped clear and was found by rescue workers . |
| 17 | Durand , only the third Frenchman to win the event , came home alone after he and three others had broken clear of the field with 134 miles to go . |
| 18 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 19 | It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore-Tex bivvy-bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear . |
| 20 | A few minutes later Wayne McDowell , he played the ball out to brother Gary again , whose hard low cross was scrambled clear by the Almondsbury defence to back to Wayne McDowell whose lob shot ended up resting in the top of the netting . |
| 21 | Phil Whelan 's long through ball was booted clear by Spink , but it hit Mick Stockwell and rebounded into the path of Kiwomya , who took careful aim before stroking the ball into an empty net from 20 yards . |
| 22 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |
| 23 | It was as if everything had suddenly come clear . |
| 24 | er , er the one thing that has come clear through er your submission Mr is that you 're not er in any way enamoured of the idea that there should be some scheme whereby your clients erm pay their central fund and demands and er , er , and erm maintain their counterclaim here after |
| 25 | With that last heave , Maurice 's anchor had wrenched clear of the mud , and the mooring-ropes , unable to take the whole weight of the barge , pulled free and parted from the shore . |
| 26 | It had been an horrific triple crash that had left two drivers dead , and the newsreel of that dreadful moment had shown a blazing object being catapulted clear of the wreckage . |
| 27 | As in other carriers , a tube incorporates a wire hanger , only in this case the release of the bear takes place when the wire hits a line stop with its forward end , and is pushed clear of a slotted tube at the aft end . |
| 28 | Then the truck was pushed clear . |
| 29 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 30 | The concentration on the subjective nature of experience made clear the logical privacy , and hence non-physicality , of sense experience in a way in which it was never made clear within the classical and scholastic traditions . |