Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | To many it seemed clear that if liberal capitalism ( of the sort advocated by Disraeli ) were not to be swept away by revolution , the largely illiterate workforce must be encouraged to believe that their welfare would be protected by the new rulers — the powerful middle class . |
| 2 | On May 24th it became clear that America has won the contest hands down . |
| 3 | During the 1970s it became clear that adult education was mainly serving the needs of well educated and socially advantaged members of our society . |
| 4 | In the eighties it became clear that the social and ethical consequences of this state of affairs could be catastrophic . |
| 5 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 6 | In Whitehall , Smith was pleased with the progressing organisation built up by Verity , but in 1949 it became clearer that the bottlenecks were not only on site steel but in the inadequate response of the pipework and boiler manufacturers . |
| 7 | During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain . |
| 8 | As the first round of the lower-level negotiations closed on Feb. 28 it became clear that these and other technical issues were still unresolved , and a second round of negotiations was due to commence in Budapest , Hungary , on April 23 . |
| 9 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 10 | In July 1939 it seemed clear to me that war was inevitable . |
| 11 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 12 | But gradually in the l950s and 1960s it became clear that , though the economy had grown considerably since 1945 , the UK was not keeping up with its rivals abroad . |
| 13 | In the 1670s it became clear that this was not the case and that the English really did intend to have a network of trade among all English possessions to give the colonies a safe if restricted market in England and to allow England — and London in particular — the whole re-export trade from the entire empire . |
| 14 | In January 1990 it became clear that donor countries were by threatening to cut the size of their aid programmes , placing pressure on the Sri Lankan government for an improvement in the country 's human rights record . |
| 15 | In the late 1980s it became clear from the work of several labs that drugs which inhibited this enzyme could block LTP . |
| 16 | In 1968 it became clear that the stone wall had been preceded , as in many towns in Britain , by an earthwork , with a date of construction in the late second or early third century . |