Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] clear [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And yet , on the other hand , it is all too clear that racism still remains a widespread , and possibly intensifying , fact of many people 's lives .
2 And if we look at the actual fragments , it is all too clear that Nietzsche was right .
3 The result of our cursory glance at the attempts that have been made at a new perspective on law and the legal system is thus both clear and complicated : the legal system can no longer be understood to be monolithic , but is differentiated , and this differentiation is structured by its relationship to other social sub-systems ; law , moreover , has a different ideological role in different national legal cultures .
4 It is thus quite clear that whatever he said about Shakespeare 's plays , Tolkien read some of them with keen attention : most of all , Macbeth .
5 It is not wholly clear whether it is permissible for the tribunal of fact to take into account the surrounding circumstances and the conduct of any person defending himself in assessing the level of violence being used , and the frightening quality of the incident .
6 It is not immediately clear whether or not Chrissie is telling the truth .
7 However , it is not yet clear whether the new regulations , will call for the individual dual pricing of all goods in the shop , or whether a simple surcharge could be added to the bill .
8 It is not yet clear whether any new ESAs will be managed in the same way as existing areas .
9 It is not yet clear whether this signals a more general change in the government 's approach to the funding of education .
10 But it is not yet clear whether they base their judgements on their own features , or whether they have become habituated to the characteristics of their full-sister group .
11 It is not yet clear whether this ‘ choose-and-follow ’ mechanism occurs in other species .
12 And despite all its promise it is not yet clear whether it will pull capitalism out of its recession or whether it will only serve the interests of affluent minorities .
13 It is understood the line was set up by his close friend Stephanie King , from Nottingham , but it is not yet clear whether Reggie Kray has broken any prison rules .
14 It is not yet clear whether this will take into account the index-linked charge of $5 million per annum which the State is currently paying to house the paintings in Madrid , an agreement due to expire in nine years ' time .
15 It is not yet clear whether Rios 2 will be offered to IBM 's PowerOpen partners , other than those that specifically take IBM RS/6000s as an OEM product , such as Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Wang Laboratories Inc .
16 Perhaps more worryingly , it is not yet clear whether the future generation of RISC-based AS/400s will be any more amenable to parallelisation .
17 It is not yet clear whether metasomatism takes place earlier than , concurrent with or subsequent to alkaline igneous activity and melt migration .
18 It is not yet clear whether this is the beginning of significant changes , or merely another short-lived period of interest .
19 In that case X is not a free agent , but it is not yet clear whether Y is one .
20 List also two important ways in which it is not yet clear whether Venus and the Earth are appreciably different from each other .
21 It is not yet clear whether this feat was accomplished through inflight refuelling — there were reports that Iraq had received the Antonev fuel-carrier from the USSR — or through refuelling halfway down the Gulf , as the victims appeared to suspect .
22 It is not yet clear whether this represents a ZNF25 gene duplication , but since both EcoRI fragments are present within the same YAC clones , all KOX19-hybridising sequences are located in 10p11.2 .
23 But it is not yet clear if the Echo technology will be used in production release software from Apple , as there are at least two separate ongoing efforts within Apple to move the Mac environment over to the PowerPC , one using a large amount of translation , the other a large amount of emulation .
24 But it is not yet clear if the Echo technology will be used in production release software from Apple , as there are at least two separate ongoing efforts within Apple to move the Mac environment over to the PowerPC , one using a large amount of translation , the other a large amount of emulation .
25 It is not yet clear if there is an independent relationship between physical health status and dementia .
26 It is not even clear whether they travelled in a Japanese or a Chinese ship : but either way they made secret contacts with Thakin friends who agreed to accompany them back to Japan .
27 The connection between algal blooms and large-scale mortalities of marine organisms is not always clear but , often , there is another common feature ; unseasonably warm temperatures .
28 Fifteen were tradesmen ( grocer , pawnbroker , draper etc. ) , though it is not always clear whether these were small shopkeepers or employed by someone else .
29 C. I. Lewis used to claim that basic beliefs were ‘ certain' or ‘ incorrigible ’ ( Lewis , 1952 and 1946 , ch. 7 ) ; it is not always clear whether he thought of these as the same as being infallible or not .
30 There may be uncertainties in interpreting an ultrasound picture ; the prognosis of the abnormality detected is not always known ; and in some groups of defects , such as oesophageal atresia or obstructive defects of urinary system , it is not always clear whether the defect is so severe as to justify abortion or whether surgery might be successful .
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