Example sentences of "made it plain " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it plain that he now wants to forgive and forget Mr Prescott 's deputy leadership challenge to Roy Hattersley last year . |
| 2 | The first priority was to restore order and she made it plain that she backed the police unequivocally in doing so . |
| 3 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 4 | It stated the soldier 's undying love for his wife but also made it plain that he realised that they could not live in harmony , so they had better not see each other . |
| 5 | Louis-Napoleon made it plain that he was himself sure that the main result of the establishment of universal suffrage would be his own success . |
| 6 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 7 | Upon our arrival at the foot of the stairs the dog made it plain that stairs were an innovation he 'd not encountered before , by staging the first of many sit-down strikes . |
| 8 | ‘ Servant ’ seemed too coarse a word for such a refined creature and indeed she made it plain that she did not usually inhabit a servants ' hall . |
| 9 | He made it plain that it was the collective wisdom of the party , as the embodiment of the revolutionary consciousness of the class , which provided the best guide to appropriate practice . |
| 10 | But Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev made it plain that his country still prefers peacekeepers to military action . |
| 11 | My tapestries and books were turning into pitch-thick smoke , and the heat , from which I had hitherto been protected , it seems , by the initial surge of adrenalin through my body , now made it plain that this was the last window of opportunity for effecting a dignified , if empty-handed , exit . |
| 12 | Although there were six central government departments concerned in one way or another with inner cities , the Prime Minister made it plain that she was to spearhead the inner city campaign and in 1987 , to demonstrate the seriousness of the government 's intent , a cabinet committee on the inner cities was established with Mrs Thatcher as its chairperson . |
| 13 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
| 14 | In advocating the creation of the new offence , the Government made it plain that it did not wish to promote legislation too similar in this respect to the discredited ‘ sus ’ laws . |
| 15 | However , the Government made it plain that they intended to go back into the ERM when they judged the moment to be right . |
| 16 | So did my father , he was n't to bother himself with the day-to-day things like washing sheets or buying food , that was her job , she made it plain . |
| 17 | Alain collected the luggage and made it plain that he was not about to coax her . |
| 18 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 19 | On the latter part of the hon. Gentleman 's question , he will know that the Foreign Ministers of the European Community considered the subject earlier this week and made it plain that , when considering recognition , regard would be had to the extent to which the republics were ready to undertake the treaty obligations to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 20 | I made it plain that we oppose the MacSharry proposals . |
| 21 | Since Mr Hull made it plain that he was not qualified to give an opinion about the painting 's authorship , the plaintiff 's employee must have realised that in proceeding with the purchase he was relying on his own skill and judgment . |
| 22 | Maxton had surprised the Party by welcoming the agreement , though he made it plain that he did so out of relief that war had been averted . |
| 23 | In other words , he made it plain that to that extent the second appellant could be guilty on the basis of concert . |
| 24 | Well , I made my , I made it plain that er , at the training centre , you know , I says , I says to em , I said er , in my opinion , I says , he does n't want , he do n't want to kn , he he do n't want to know . |
| 25 | The point that I 'm trying to make is that Johnson made it plain , yes , that greed makes you gullible , lust makes you gullible , er er , you will be conned , but nobody gets punished . |