Example sentences of "be clear the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises .
2 they 're clearing the waiting list
3 There had been another bad raid on Sunday night but soldiers and gangs of workmen were clearing the roads of the debris from shattered buildings and fire crews from all the surrounding districts had come to help fight the numerous fires .
4 An RUC spokesman said a police patrol spotted the suspect van and were clearing the area when the warning came , just minutes before the bomb exploded , showering people with glass and debris .
5 Police were clearing the area when a warning came , just minutes after the bomb exploded .
6 Police were clearing the area when bomb went off .
7 The objective is to clear the surface without removing ink from the bitten areas .
8 Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric are drugs detectives whose mission is to clear the streets of a 20th Century plague .
9 The job of the government is to clear the decks . ’
10 But it 's cleared the air .
11 By the time she 's cleared the jam , they 're in the outskirts of Bournemouth .
12 Clear , I hope he 's clearing the salt up .
13 Security forces had been clearing the area when the bomb exploded .
14 They are clearing the stage in demolition mood .
15 Sanskrit , an extremely terse language used in scientific treatises , whose purpose was to clear the way for unambiguous expression without redundancy or obscurity .
16 It was to clear the sweat from his eyelids .
17 This , coupled with the rise of a narrower version of monetarism , was to clear the ground for a far more extreme school of macroeconomics which would make adherents to old style monetarism look like liberal wimps .
18 The two girls ' job was to clear the table between courses , fetch and carry dishes .
19 One of the jobs the new drains operation was recently called on to do was to clear the rubber from the runway at Gatwick Airport .
20 Their role was to clear the Channel of the Dutch and English fleets , before returning to escort across the invasion army in its transports .
21 ‘ Seen you somewhere before , have n't I , squire ? ’ said a weary young man in a coffee-stained white jacket who was clearing the tables , without any great interest .
22 They copied the form and ways of Man , but saw how Man was clearing the forest and saw how this destruction released elemental spirits from the earth which had once been frozen .
23 She was clearing the table when she heard the slow deliberate footsteps of her husband approaching the kitchen .
24 Zelah was clearing the table .
25 Beryl was clearing the table ; Francis , with his hands in his pockets , was staring out of the window .
26 Nests I found when I was clearing the garden , put the little eggs in and they 'd all gone cold .
27 He was clearing the ground , dispatching his previous writing to the putative immortality of volume form before he began seriously to concentrate on the work to come .
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