Example sentences of "it [be] clear [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's clear that ace coach Eddie Futch has taken a shine to him .
2 It is clear that political-administrative elites and not the masses of acceptors are deciding on the technology to be used ’ USAID Evaluation Report , 1979
3 It is clear that general practitioners have the potential to be able contributors to the discussion of what needs to be purchased and where , although the mechanisms by which this is achieved need a variety of well thought out and appropriate structures .
4 It is clear that deep discount bonds represent liabilities of the issuer since they contain an obligation to make cash payments .
5 So it is clear that private citizens are the proper persons to ‘ enforce ’ private law .
6 Although it is clear that mountainous areas with few nearby notable pollution sources are receiving their pollution burden from regions or countries several hundreds or thousands of kilometres distant , it is difficult to determine precisely from which source or sources the pollution originated .
7 IN THE YEAR that saw mankind 's first wave of planetary exploration reach a glorious climax with Voyager 2 's passage of Neptune , it is clear that new space efforts will concentrate on the third planet from the Sun .
8 It is clear that other groups , such as the military , scientists and intellectuals , could exercise influence over the party and modify policy .
9 The first temple at Mallia , raised in about 1900 BC , was equipped with storage rooms , but it is clear that other buildings , apparently houses , in the town of Mallia were also equipped with store-rooms .
10 Whether soundly based or not , it is clear that congressional perceptions of Reagan 's popularity were important in influencing votes in the legislature ; and the defection of Boll Weevils , in particular , was essential to the president 's success on key votes .
11 However , it is clear that chronic health problems appear to increase with age .
12 Although it is hard to know how valid these comparisons are , it is clear that ordinary people in Britain have far more possessions and assets than they did in 1911 .
13 It is clear that political commitment is no more sufficient for the development of good pedagogy than is the ability to speak a particular language and to share in its associated culture .
14 Nevertheless it is clear that Anglo-American relations had suffered a number of shocks since 1950 , while Churchill was quite wrong in his expectation that the Americans would be happier to work with him than with Labour .
15 It is clear that ultimate liability is envisaged to lie with the producer , own brander or importer , irrespective of whether they are insolvent , that is , " whether still in existence or not " ( s2(3) ( a ) ) .
16 With hindsight it is clear that left-wing opponents planned to disrupt the meeting , for over 1,000 anti-fascists were involved in a counter-demonstration and in the systematic attempts to wreck the occasion .
17 First , it is clear that psychotic illness involves , if nothing else , a serious disruption of brain activity .
18 It is clear that certain policies have a limited call upon union expenditure , while other policies are a heavy burden upon expenditure .
19 Finally , it is clear that centralized planning such as this must be kept under constant review , if it is to respond to changed needs and resources .
20 Most attention has been focused on the ionotropic receptors ( like NMDA and kainic acid receptors ) , but it is clear that metabotropic receptors operating through the InsP 3 and DAG messenger systems have a profound effect on neural behaviour , including memory .
21 It is clear that electronegative chlorine substituents on the phosphine ligands decrease the electron density on the central Co atom , thereby decreasing the back-bonding and raising the CO and NO bond stretching frequencies .
22 Housing subsidies in the past have sometimes favoured rural areas , but Shucksmith believes that the higher building costs have not been matched , and that ‘ it is clear that central government policies have played a major role in frustrating council housing in rural areas , both through the overall financial allocation to rural areas , and through the constraints imposed on individual developments … . ’
23 To conclude our review of criminal statistics , it is clear that official statistics on crime , like most statistics , should not be taken at face value as ‘ facts ’ to be accepted uncritically .
24 It is clear that male birds with more complicated repertoires can intimidate rivals more successfully and/or attract mates more readily .
25 It is clear that unpublished price sensitive information fulfils this requirement .
26 It is clear that quantitative methodology can be applied , with interesting results , to data bases other than the bodies of naturally occurring spontaneous speech for which it was originally designed .
27 Since these variations can occur within a single species , and even within a single individual , it is clear that good samples are necessary before attempting to distinguish patterns .
28 Hence it is clear that N-gram models are computationally practical for only small values of N. ( Jelinek 's system used a vocabulary of 1000 words and i=3 . )
29 There is , however , some difficulty in the study in relation to the choice of stimuli and in the fact that only neutral facial expression was used — while it is clear that facial characteristics are important to the holistic perception of the sign .
30 Yet it is clear that existing law does not provide enough protection for children against sexual abuse within the home and the Committee fails to make alternative proposals that will sufficiently strengthen it .
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