Example sentences of "[be] not clear that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For while it is true that ‘ different costs for different purposes ’ is an accepted part of textbooks , it is not clear that the idea has been successfully communicated to non-accountants .
2 Although it is not clear that the extraversion-introversion dimension is the only personality factor related to arousal ( M. W. Eysenck & Folkard , 1980 ) , there is now considerable evidence that there are individual differences in both levels of arousal and the effects of additional arousal ( e.g. Blake , 1967 ; Colquhoun & Folkard , 1978 ; Revelle , Humphreys , Simon & Gilliland , 1980 ) .
3 The local authority , on the other hand , say that ‘ the care given to the child ’ in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) means the care given by the mother to the child in this case and that , in any event , it is not clear that the child would go to the grandmother 's if a care order was not made , because the mother is still claiming , or was still claiming , that the care should be given to her .
4 Over ten years ago Breton and Wintrobe warned that ‘ it is not clear that the behaviour of bureaucrats would be and what kind of models we would be churning out if government revenues were not increasing automatically ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1975 , p. 205 ) .
5 Only it is not clear that the identification of such a project as state capitalism is damning .
6 In some languages the grammatical encoding of topic is so prominent , that it is not clear that the notion of subject has the same purchase as it does in the analysis , for example , of Indo-European languages ( Li & Thompson , 1976 ) .
7 COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath .
8 At the time of writing , computer documentation is making the transition to CD-ROM which will eliminate the physical space problem , greatly mitigate access , but it is not clear that the archiving of computer manuals will serve any useful purpose , other than to satisfy the cravings of the occasional computer buff with an obsessive interest in the technology .
9 It is the dies incertus an , certus quando of the glossators : it is not clear that the day will actually ever come , even though it is clear if it does when it will be .
10 in addition , it is not clear that the re-ordering is in the direction of simplifying the causal structure of the story .
11 Yet it was not clear that the Act was successful in controlling the situation after 1937 ; in Germany the banning of political uniforms had little effect on the rise of the nazis .
12 In 1984 , when work started , it was not clear that the task could be completed .
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