Example sentences of "be [vb pp] clear " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The implications of these terms are considered later but the use of terminology in this study text needs to be made clear at the outset .
6 ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world .
7 That is why it needs quickly to be made clear just how high the cost of a crackdown might be .
8 ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . )
9 Greater unity would strengthen the weakest link in the chain , the village minister : ‘ When sneerers and wonderers ask [ him ] , ‘ Hath any man brought him ought to eat ? ’ it will soon be made clear that good men eat at the table of Divine plenteousness . ’
10 The missions of these different educational and training programmes and how they relate to each other must be made clear .
11 People 's natural prejudices may be aroused by this prospect alone , sufficiently for the idea to be rejected , but it must be made clear why EMU is undesirable for Britain and for Europe .
12 Before beginning to look in detail at an aspect of a particular religious tradition , the Christian tradition , one further point must be made clear .
13 The relation between the effects of habituation and those implied by the Pearce — Hall model can perhaps be made clear if we adopt the elaboration offered by Liddell ( 1950 ) of Pavlov 's notion of the orienting reflex .
14 it had to be made clear that the Civil Rights Movement was not anti-constitutional .
15 But it should be made clear that educational excellence is to be found in the comprehensive schools of the State system , and indeed that these schools should take the lead both in educational experiment and in the democratizing of education as a whole .
16 The details of the offer must be made clear ; the mere expression of optimism that a job can be found is not enough .
17 The extent of your employer 's duty to pay for it , if the retraining is to be conducted by some outside body , should be made clear .
18 While crime is frequently a major area of the study of deviance the relationship between the two needs to be made clear .
19 One final point must be made clear to the reader regarding OPEC and Middle East oil supplies .
20 The underlying purpose of recording new information must be made clear to avoid it being regarded as just a bureaucratic exercise .
21 The role of psychotropic medication in such cases should be made clear to the patient , particularly where medication is only a means of assisting coping behaviour rather than dealing with patients ' fundamental problems .
22 If a religion is deemed to be a ‘ failure ’ , the meaning given to that word in that context should be made clear .
23 It has to be made clear , to the countries of Europe , to the countries of the East — to the whole world — that this is not just a fight against international communism .
24 It must be made clear to South Africa 's political and rugby authorities that the nation 's hosting of the tournament is dependent upon political reforms continuing at pace .
25 Thus , our holiday video turns out to be a series of boxes within boxes , of shots related to each other within sequences , and sequences related to each other within an overall structure which has to be made clear to the audience .
26 It is true that during the 1991/92 presidential year a certain amount of friction occurred between Moorgate Place and the district societies , but it should be made clear that this was almost entirely due to the funding problems and not because of any breakdown in the relationship between the national president and the district society presidents .
27 It should be made clear that this is on a completely self-financing basis and that at an increasing number of dinners spouses now attend the dinner rather than do their own thing .
28 The mystery kept secret from all eternity is now about to be made clear .
29 It should be made clear that the value of this information for consumers would be chiefly as a yardstick against which they could measure the rates offered to them by lenders of the same type , or for credit of the same type .
30 So we recommend that where the seller of goods , or other agent arranging credit , will be paid commission by a lender , this fact , and the rate and amount of commission , should be made clear to the customer .
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