Example sentences of "[verb] [be] clear for some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning .
2 It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account .
3 It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 .
4 But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit .
5 The warnings had been clear for some time .
6 The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus .
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