Example sentences of "[pers pn] a clear [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , if you stray from the healthy diet , you will know immediately ; your body will protest and send you a clear message , just as it would if you were too hot or too cold . |
| 2 | Have you a clear purpose and strategy in mind ? |
| 3 | If you are a complete beginner , turn to Chapter 1 , which tells you what oriental rugs are and gives you a clear explanation of essential rug-making terms , as well as outlining the various categories of rug . |
| 4 | The book gives you a clear insight into the complexities of piloting a fast jet at low altitude , keeping tabs on exactly where you are and planning on the wing exactly where you want to be within an acceptable tolerance at a checkpoint of plus or minus five seconds . |
| 5 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 6 | That God will give me a clear vision for the future and reveal to me the next step after DTS . |
| 7 | By moving out of the way , we 'll be giving them a clear run . |
| 8 | Her soldier companion urged her forward along a gully , which they crawled along until a gap between two boulders gave them a clear view of the landscape . |
| 9 | Roman 's lips curled slightly ; he started to walk and the stream of people automatically flowed apart as they approached , leaving them a clear path . |
| 10 | explained : ‘ In general it is down to having good management — knowing how to push people and giving them a clear context to work within . |
| 11 | It was for this reason that the fieldworkers in the other areas , who were not local residents , adopted the role of ‘ a friend of a friend ’ which gave them a clear status of an informal kind . |
| 12 | They will probably keep on asking , as long as he avoids giving them a clear answer . |
| 13 | First a mix-up in the West Ham defence gave him a clear sight of goal , but Ludek Miklosko threw himself at Smillie 's feet to save . |
| 14 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones set up one of the first and best organised of them in Newcastle Wynne-Jones 's work for the Labour Party , added to his success as a chemist , made him a clear choice as a working member of the House of Lords . |
| 15 | He is on course to secure a clear majority among the union block votes in Labour 's electoral college to give him a clear advantage in the battle to succeed Mr Kinnock . |
| 16 | The car has a distinctive siren and the driver sits in a very elevated position , giving him a clear view over the bows ! |
| 17 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 18 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |
| 19 | Making up her mind is the first stage as this gives her a clear aim and plan . |
| 20 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 21 | But it gave her a clear view into the houses backing on to the tracks , the private mess usually tidied out of sight , the outside lavatories with unhinged doors , the laundry racks flimsy as the skeleton of a bird 's wing , with trousers and underwear like broken feathers hanging ; a burst , sodden mattress . |
| 22 | Well can we make it a clear definition please because national means , national in terms of agents and corporates means multi-locational and all represented |
| 23 | Greece 's conservative government conceded yesterday that a socialist victory in a weekend by-election in Athens had ‘ given us a clear message ’ . |
| 24 | " The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep the land of Israel from the [ Mediterranean ] sea to the river Jordan for the generation to come " , Shamir stated . |
| 25 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
| 26 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 27 | The remains of these edifices in Italy , France , Germany , Spain , Yugoslavia , Greece , Rumania and Asia Minor give us a clear idea of their way of life as well as their modes of building and it is a much more complete picture than that which we have from the Greek civilisation because of its very complexity and variety . |
| 28 | Vitruvius gives us a clear account of four of the Roman orders but , having lived in the days of Augustus , he was unable to describe the Composite Order . |
| 29 | Thus the excellent studies of the mud and sand flats around the Wash in eastern England give us a clear picture of the zonation of the sediments and their associated life , and of the processes involved , but do not tell us if they have accumulated in depth and are likely to stay there for the geologist of the future . |
| 30 | Speaking without notes , Mr Denton gave us a clear picture of the way the railways were first developed as a freight service , and indeed their rapid rise as a people carrier was an unexpected consequence . |