Example sentences of "to make it clear " in BNC.

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1 Hence it was important to reduce levels of grant to make it clearer to voters what services actually cost .
2 The opportunity has been taken in the new version to rewrite the material , to make it clearer and more accessible for the reader .
3 This is an important and also a difficult point , so let me try to make it clearer .
4 Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) :
5 On a first visit to a partner 's parents , she decided , she would want to make it clear that her relationship was primarily with him , not them .
6 The conditions laid down were therefore designed to differentiate the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition , and to make it clear that the National Government was not intended , as the Lloyd George coalition had been , to lead to a permanent realignment of the party system .
7 Banks and building societies offering conveyancing will be subject to a strict code of conduct and will have to make it clear that they are not offering independent financial advice .
8 Mr Janman has asked us to make it clear that , as he wrote in last Saturday 's Sun , he recognises that both crown servants and substantial investors in Britain have an existing right to come here and that though at present he advocates the strict exclusion of all others , he would cease to do so if the Chinese were to attempt ‘ a Tiananmen-style crackdown ’ in Hong Kong in 1997 .
9 We must continue to make it clear to potential aggressors , however , that we should strike back with all the means that we judge appropriate , conventional or nuclear .
10 That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for .
11 She burst out laughing , and to make it clear that she was n't laughing at him she pointed out the sign .
12 A second approach is to frame the law in such a way as to make it clear that the court should make a moral judgment on the gravity of the defendant 's conduct .
13 If physical integrity is so highly valued , would it be inappropriate to make it clear that an offence would be committed by any normal adult who failed to see an obvious risk of physical harm to another ?
14 I wore the shantung tea-gown and a gold circlet round my forehead to make it clear that I 'm the Queen .
15 At least , I assume this card ( which I am returning ) concerns the man who loves collecting pubic hair — it 's much too learned and technical for me to understand most of it , but there are bits of it which do seem to make it clear .
16 Peter Rost , the council 's chairman , who is a former Conservative MP and ex-member of the Commons Energy Select Committee , said yesterday : ‘ The council intends to make it clear that we will no longer accept fobbing-off , soothing noises from politicians , regulators and suppliers , the decision makers who should be helping us . ’
17 ‘ I also want to make it clear as a private individual that I cam do nothing to stop them . ’
18 Craig and other ministers were at pains afterwards to make it clear that irrespective of the likelihood of a rival parade , the march would not have been allowed to proceed through the Waterside or the walled city .
19 We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so .
20 Remember to make it clear that , however cross or disappointed you are over something he/ she has done , it is only that particular piece of behaviour you dislike .
21 Throughout the book 1 have tried to make it clear that the approach is not prescriptive , and successful applications depend a great deal on the intellectual and creative skills of the analyst .
22 But I should like to make it clear that the suggestion that BAT has been ‘ dumping ’ this pesticide in Kenya has not foundation of truth whatsoever .
23 Lynda Chalker , the transport minister said : ‘ I wish to make it clear that the county council has my confidence in its ability to undertake this particularly demanding role … ’
24 Even when parents strongly disapprove of the way their teenager is behaving , it is still important to make it clear that it is the behaviour and not the person that is being rejected .
25 Much better to make it clear from the start that you 've seen through them , and you still fancy them rotten .
26 It would be heartless to deny her the pleasure of feeling that she is making a useful contribution to the preparation of meals , but it would be equally unkind not to make it clear to her from the beginning just who will be in charge and wearing the chef 's hat !
27 This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong .
28 He said : ‘ I want to make it clear that the buck stops with me .
29 I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes .
30 His prose too is highly mannered in both his Latin and his English treatises ; it calls attention to itself and to the writer in striking contrast to the calm , lucid prose of our other mystics , who are all careful to make it clear that their word is not law but only their own opinion .
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