Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] not [adv] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these management activities would occur automatically in best-practice private companies , spurred on by managers adopting broad views of their briefs , although it is not always clear what motivates the manager to behave in this way — perhaps the operation of the managerial labour market ? |
| 2 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 3 | One weakness of Rationality and Relativism is that it is not always clear that the various authors interpret relativism in the same way . |
| 4 | One disadvantage of intuitive decision-making , or of ‘ leaps in the dark ’ if Birkenhead 's phraseology is preferred , is that it is not always clear what they are intended to achieve . |
| 5 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | But no link is suggested between them , and it is not yet clear what the point of the essay is . |
| 7 | When one studies the literature one finds that , surprising as it may seem , the weight of legal opinion is in favour of the second view ; and it is not even clear what is the proper legal means that the Crown should use to establish misbehaviour before dismissing a judge . |
| 8 | Of course , even if insider trading had some tendency to make the market smoother the benefit from that smoothness ( and it is not entirely clear why smooth gradual movements are preferable to sudden jumps ) might not be worth its cost . |
| 9 | It is hardly surprising that there is a high degree of confusion and it is not always clear who is to blame ( or can claim credit ) for particular activities . |
| 10 | Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface . |
| 11 | But it is not altogether clear what part dietary habits play . |
| 12 | But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared . |
| 13 | Rulings made by the European Court of Justice now mean that pension schemes run by employers should not discriminate between men and women on grounds of age , but it is not yet clear what the consequences of these rulings will be . |
| 14 | A number of explanations for these results are available , but it is not yet clear which explanations are correct . |
| 15 | But it is not yet clear what new job opportunities the development will mean . |
| 16 | First , there is the lunch-break story ( though it is not entirely clear that this relates to the very last meeting : it might relate to 5 November ) . |