Example sentences of "be clear [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ With leukaemia in a child they say that if they are clear for five years , then all is well .
2 Feelings are clear for all to see ,
3 The parallels with developments in the print industry ( see pp. 91 — 3 ) are clear for all to see .
4 Persuasion uses power bases ( expertise , charm , skills ) overtly ; the method and the objectives are clear to all .
5 Recovered cases should not be mixed with uninfected horses until nasal swabs are clear of any bacterial growth .
6 A horse that has apparently recovered completely can remain a carrier for a considerable time and therefore should not be mixed with uninfected horses until nasal swabs are clear of any bacterial growth .
7 But the inward and Internal actions are to respond to , and hopefully influence , external circumstances , and unless you are clear on this nothing will happen .
8 But committee members are clear about one thing : the DoH has often not been helpful in clarifying the situation for local authorities .
9 Central heating is actually fairly easy to sort out right at the beginning provided you are clear about certain facts .
10 Unless we are clear about these , in the case of human beings , and then of the grounds for proceeding to apply them to animals , we will be ill-prepared to assess the claim of the scientist or other trained observer that a segment of observed animal behaviour is thoughtful , or intentional , or hopeful , or self-conscious .
11 Two things are clear from this very brief summary of the content of the Convention .
12 Pupils with mild or moderate levels of visual problems are likely to need only some of the adaptations listed ( for example , closed circuit television will not be needed ) , but they will benefit from an environment and materials that are clear in visual terms .
13 It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning .
14 The warnings had been clear for some time .
15 It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account .
16 But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit .
17 The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus .
18 It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 .
19 That much must also have been clear to contemporary foreign observers .
20 What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context .
21 Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries .
22 The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen .
23 I I think if you 've got a moderately or well differentiated tumour and i it 's solitary and it 's small and they 're clear at three months tell them to stop smoking by all means .
24 Just so that i 'm clear on this ; we are talking about right wing fascist rag THE ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ are we ?
25 How much design effort is needed in the different areas will not be clear at this stage but unless the system is very simple there are bound to be problems of overlap and of how far to arrange sub-teams by discipline , by function or by problem ( Singleton , 1987 ) .
26 ‘ Not at the start , Doctor , let me be clear on that point .
27 You must be clear on that , Fei Yen . ’
28 It is as well to be clear on this .
29 It 's a good idea to be clear on this at the outset ; it 's also a good idea to resist the temptation to start shooting whatever catches your eye the moment you arrive .
30 But the way will be clear for American Airlines and United Airlines , to buy the London services of TWA and Pan Am .
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