Example sentences of "have [been] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | But had anyone in New York thought to look in New Orleans , it would have been clear that his life was as disorderly as ever . |
| 2 | Alida stepped from the surgery door into sudden sunlight , and beneath the contempt and the anger was a seed of relief , of new hope , of freedom , for the instrument did not lie , the sounds must have been clear , she had no heart disease , no weakness , no need to accept the fact of death . |
| 3 | Biblical motifs recur — some art-experts call them sermons in stone , and their messages would certainly have been clear to the often-illiterate medieval pilgrims trudging to Santiago de Compostela in Spain . |
| 4 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 5 | It may mislead people into obeying the law where , but for their consent , it would have been clear to them that it is better to disobey . |
| 6 | The hall would have been clear by half-past seven . ’ |
| 7 | But it must have been clear to him that I was not a professional escaper . |
| 8 | The situation must now have been clear to Scott . |
| 9 | Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries . |
| 10 | It must have been clear to the Prussian government that if it had not been for government subsidy the Junker estates would have collapsed under their own weight long ago , but they were nevertheless incapable of striking at what they saw to be the basis and guarantor of their state and society . |
| 11 | Neville Sims , chairman of the committee that heard the case , said in the statement ( see p 99 ) that while the case was not easy to decide , ‘ in our opinion the relationship between the individuals in Coopers , Asil Nadir and PPI constituted a clear continuing professional relationship , and had you made proper inquiries before accepting the appointment , that this would have been clear to you ’ . |
| 12 | Quite how hard , though , could not have been clear to Sir Denys Henderson when he took the chair at Britain 's biggest manufacturing company five years ago . |
| 13 | What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context . |
| 14 | The implications would have been clear , even self-evident . |
| 15 | Their contention was that the constable must have a specific fear in mind ; ‘ he must be able to say which pit , which miners and when , ’ and that it must have been clear from the words and deeds of the appellants themselves ( and the others associated with them on the spot ) that a breach of the peace would ensue . |
| 16 | And there is an indirect contrast , whose significance would have been clear to the early Christian readers , but which loses a little of its impact two thousand years later : |
| 17 | That much must also have been clear to contemporary foreign observers . |
| 18 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |
| 19 | Must have been clear . |