Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] not clear that " in BNC.

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1 However , this classification is illuminating only to the extent that apposition is well understood , and it is not clear that it is , or even can be .
2 But it is not clear that the declining overall effectiveness of the police and of criminal justice is because of internal failings so much as because of the overwhelming growth of work-load due to growing social and economic inequality coupled with moral deregulation .
3 The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely .
4 COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath .
5 The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science .
6 B-trees are very good for storing numbers ( for example ORACLE the relational database stores its indexes as B-trees ) , but it is not clear that they are particularly useful for storing words .
7 The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case .
8 Certainly , examples can be found where the growth of the enterprise has involved the creation of massive technical operating units ( in the car industry and the shipyards for instance ) but it is not clear that this trend will continue , and in some cases technological change is already undermining the competitive advantage of those enterprises operating very large-scale units .
9 The standard left response to the kind of argument put by Gaitskell was that the party should be ‘ more socialist ’ and would thereby gain more working class support , but it is not clear that the left opposition within the party had a political project which could have commanded mass popular support among the working class in the 1950s .
10 Contractual arrangements between the parties can lead to disputes , but it is not clear that these are the concern of competition policy authorities .
11 There was a finding that the contractors were at fault with regard to the old shafts , but it is not clear that they should have realised that their conduct would affect the plaintiff 's land and even if this had been the case there would have been a serious issue at that times whether the defendant was liable for the negligence of his contractor .
12 Education regarding the potential dangerousness of the drug in overdose may prevent accidental deaths , but it is not clear that this alone will prevent death among those who impulsively overdose with this drug .
13 The giver should therefore win the arguments ; but it is not clear that Mr Castro has lost yet .
14 At the time of writing , computer documentation is making the transition to CD-ROM which will eliminate the physical space problem , greatly mitigate access , but it is not clear that the archiving of computer manuals will serve any useful purpose , other than to satisfy the cravings of the occasional computer buff with an obsessive interest in the technology .
15 Not only are the technical and organizational problems huge but it is not clear that we even have the intellectual concepts needed to talk about the issues we face .
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