Example sentences of "was clear that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was clear that UUUC were going to do well but many people including perhaps some UUUC candidates themselves were surprised at the extent of their success , The relative absence of " Centre " candidates in the Westminster X-vote election of October 1974 was marked and this alone and understandably made realists doubt the validity of the figures as a guide to a single transferable vote election six months later .
2 According to someone who knows both of them well and was on the same flight back to America with them from Frankfurt it was clear that Brandi had no prior knowledge of what was about to happen .
3 Looking at the account books — the real ones , not the fabrications served up to the Poles and the League of Nations — it was clear that Danzig 's projected budget for 1934–5 would run at a deficit of over 44 million gulden , which , when added to the employment projects the Nazis needed to keep their supporters in Danzig happy and faithful , would leave the Reichsbank to pick up a bill of over 110 million marks .
4 It was clear that Alexei was startled .
5 Soon it was clear that France was overrun and men began arriving home from the evacuation at Dunkirk .
6 It was clear that Anna had no worries about her husband 's attempts to flirt ; it must be wonderful , Merrill reflected , stirring her coffee , to have that kind of trust , that complete security in love .
7 ‘ It was Bill who suggested Cy when it was clear that Ibn Fayoud would take his horses away from the yard rather than use you . ’
8 It was clear that Vic felt at home here ; more at ease than he did in the shed .
9 They also led to some strategic thinking : it was clear that Prussia was now the dominant land power in Europe , and that the defences of Britain were by no means impressive — much of the army was always away in the colonies , and the navy on distant stations .
10 It was clear that Suragai had a talent for fieldcraft .
11 However , while most Arab states might have gone along with this ( if only to worst Abdallah ) , it was clear that Jordan would not contemplate the loss of the gains for which it had gone to war .
12 This weekend , as he took the fight surrounded and supported by fluttering Union Jacks , it was clear that Lennox regards himself as ‘ one of ours ’ .
13 It was clear that Jones could do much more detailed neutron measurements than could Fleischmann and Pons , but his data were n't particularly impressive .
14 He said that it was clear that payment by a surety , whether in whole or in part , not only released the surety but also reduced the liability to the creditor of the principal debtor .
15 By the time the three colleges were meeting as a prospective polytechnic , from May 1969 , it was clear that CNAA courses could not begin until 1971 at the earliest .
16 On Oct. 10 the bank 's governor , José Tavares Moreira , announced that Portugal would not enter the ERM until it was clear that inflation was in decline ; it was understood that a level of around 7-8 per cent would be acceptable .
17 It was clear that Korea was in political turmoil and that securing stability in south Korea and then unity with north Korea would be hard to accomplish .
18 When it was clear that IMC 's newest recruit would not turn back , a grossly fat woman stepped from a side room .
19 In the next few days , it was clear that Ortega had made a complete 180-degree turn in his image .
20 When the paper introduced direct input in 1986 it was clear that articles created electronically could be stored the same way .
21 The atmosphere in the room became rapidly charged with an unmistakable effluvium and it was clear that Cedric 's unfortunate malady had reasserted itself .
22 Speaking with Sue Wolstenhome of the Lawn Tennis Association Trust , it was clear that LTA policy , quite rightly , does not favour — or exclude — any grouping for special treatment .
23 It was clear that Albert had been overruled by his committee who had no intention of being deflected from the TUC 's forthcoming national day of action .
24 But the court ruled it was clear that members of Lt Roos 's patrol had beaten members of the public , and added it was astonishing that they had escaped punishment .
25 Family cases should be only referred to a solicitor where detailed advice and negotiation about the arrangements to be made for financial provision and for the children were needed ; other civil cases should only be referred once it was clear that court proceedings should be initiated .
26 By September 1938 it was clear that Carl Burckhardt , the Swiss League of Nations High Commissioner , was not prepared to do anything to prevent the drive to Nazify the city , and that he saw his position to be that of ‘ observer ’ or , at most , intermediary .
27 It was clear that Geoffrey Howe and myself would be the also-rans , but I was a little surprised that I ran so badly .
28 But he was clear that change was inevitable .
29 It was clear that Chancery was doing work which the Common Law Courts could not or would not do , and without which men 's rights could not be sufficiently protected .
30 It was clear that literature deepened our sense of the import of nationality by giving the most intense and at the same time most manifold expression of it .
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