Example sentences of "[be] clear [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The reasons for this are clear if we examine the work of two well known urban sociologists , Pahl and Saunders .
2 We are quite clear , and we were clear when we conducted the talks this summer , that they were not peace talks because they would not bring an end to the violence , but were one of the pressures that can be mounted against the terrorists .
3 Whether or not this is true of all of us , it is clear that we have the ability to react , when the situation demands it , to the unspoken sound of a written text .
4 Comparing them to the English Baroque woodwinds , it is clear that they became the prototype and standard for English makers well into the 18th century .
5 From your letters , it is clear that you enjoy the magazine and like what we are doing .
6 In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable .
7 Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously .
8 Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously .
9 The overall flexibility which is clear when we take the three works together seems to be much less evident when we look at The Origin by itself .
10 In this situation the first entry relating to the sales is clear as we reduce the sales by £600 and reduce the bank account by £600 in respect of the refund .
11 Although he has been accused , of course , of social snobbery , I think it 's clear that he observed the life around him closely and critically .
12 This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) !
13 Terry seemed to have settled in easily to Army life , but although Joe made no complaints it was clear that he missed the family .
14 It was clear that he regarded the matter as closed .
15 It was clear that she saw the drift of his question but her answer was simple : ‘ Granny seemed to exercise a sort of spell over her sons , her husband too , I think .
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