Example sentences of "had be clear [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 2 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the follow up period there were only five ears in which fluid recurred and persisted for at least one year after they had been clear for at least one year . |
| 5 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 6 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 7 | The elections of December 1965 and March 1967 had confirmed what had been clear in the elections of 1962 : that his political base was , in fact , partisan rather than truly national . |
| 8 | The strength of the Labour Party lay in its ability to win votes , which became increasingly clear in relation to the Liberals after the granting of manhood suffrage in 1918 and had been clear in relation to other socialist groups ever since 1900 . |
| 9 | It had been clear from the start that the spinster had taken an instant dislike to both Ashi and her daughter . |
| 10 | It had been clear from the conversation that it was n't something that concerned the gallery , but her personally . |