Example sentences of "it had [verb] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 2 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 3 | It had become clear to me that both Leslie and I had changed — not in essentials , but we had grown up . |
| 4 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 5 | Moreover , it had become clear from the opinion polls that the unpopularity of the new tax was being laid at the door of the government which had introduced it , rather than the local authorities who were responsible for levying and collecting it . |
| 6 | It had become clear that this also needed to be educational activity , with a high profile for curriculum and the quality of student experiences , with any material gain for the school being a bonus rather than raison d'etre . |
| 7 | During this time it had become clear to him that , to use his phrase , ‘ the Holy Spirit had separated ’ him to the Vineyard movement which is led by John Wimber . |
| 8 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 9 | Once in London , after it had become clear that the Nazis were in control in Austria , he published his ideas . |
| 10 | It had become clear to the garrison that not only did the doctors sometimes apply different remedies to the same illness , in certain cases these remedies were diametrically opposed to each other . |
| 11 | They would also have agreed with Sloman that , even before Robbins , it had become clear that universities were " threatened by expanding numbers " , and that radical measures were required to avert the dangers of such expansion to " the traditional conception of a university " . |
| 12 | There remains the question whether , as the applicant contends , the only proper course for the district judge was to postpone the trials of the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters until after the conclusion of the B.M.F.L. trial , or at least postpone them until it had become clear whether , and if so when and in what shape , the B.M.F.L. case would proceed . |
| 13 | After two days , in which it had become clear that Daod was organizing a drug shipment from Lebanon via Cyprus to Bulgaria , a well-worn route through the Eastern bloc into Western Europe , he decided to go home and sleep with his wife instead of staying on the job , as instructed , in case of overnight calls . |
| 14 | By the time they reached the coffee stage it had become clear that he was doing his best to pump her , though she hoped he had not yet realised how little result he was getting , or how assiduously she was trying , in her turn , to find out more about him . |
| 15 | Through the haze of Bell 's which had been the weekend , it had become clear that he had little alternative . |
| 16 | Speich , the German journalist , it had become clear , was the best at his job . |
| 17 | By now it had become clear that the way to approach the show would be to do the linking material as near to Joyce 's as I could , but to do the sketches very much more as I would approach them as an actress . |
| 18 | As early as May it had become clear to the RIBA 's commercial companies that the effect of the recession would be drastically to reduce their profits . |
| 19 | During the parliamentary debates it had become clear that the government would be able to count on external support from the Socialist Party of Labour on the far left , the Greater Romania Party on the far right and several other nationalist groups . |
| 20 | He moved slowly , according to Nithard , " wanting to know which way things would go before he crossed the Alps " ; only when it had become clear that plenty of support would be forthcoming did he decide to claim " the whole empire " . |
| 21 | They had been in the outback for four months , and during that time it had become clear to Gould that his projected trips to New Zealand , Moreton Bay , and Norfolk Island were unnecessary . |
| 22 | It had become clear that resale price enforcement by suppliers was an important barrier to the attainment of efficiency in the distributive sector . |
| 23 | Surely by that time it had become clear that if the Government plans for Local Management were ill-conceived , that the plans for Local Management were ill-conceived and had not been properly thought out . |