Example sentences of "[pers pn] clear [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It seems to me clear that the main intention of the offer was to induce people interested in this kind of music to buy ( or perhaps get others to buy ) , chocolate which otherwise would not have been bought .
2 My hon. Friend has made it clear that no willing volunteer will be turned away and that anybody who wants to continue to serve with the TA will be able to do so , maybe not with the unit in which he is now serving , but with another unit .
3 Both Ken Clarke and my special adviser Nicholas True made it clear that a good speech was ‘ needed ’ at the Party Conference in Blackpool .
4 But the occasional $500m-worth of speculative trading on the Korean Stock Exchange on a single day — as happened on January 17th — and a booming kerb market make it clear that a great deal of loose cash is still swirling around .
5 The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) .
6 But the requirement of leave need not be too burdensome for applicants if an expeditious procedure for cases of emergency is provided ; and the question of time-limits could be dealt with by making it clear that a short time-limit should be imposed only if public works would otherwise be held in undue suspense .
7 That definition makes it clear that a statutory tenant is not the holder of a statutorily protected tenancy .
8 And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December .
9 The hon. Gentleman 's question was interesting in that it linked county hall and Battersea power station , making it clear that the Labour party 's plans for a reborn Greater London council are not the reassuring slim-line version that Labour spokesmen have been peddling .
10 With characteristic skill , he managed at one and the same time to tap the vein of emotional , utopian socialism which played such a large part in the Labour movement , and yet to make it clear that the Labour Party would take office in a severely pragmatic spirit .
11 However , Townsend and Wedderburn ( 1965 , Chapter 5 ) make it clear that the low level of many occupational pension payments sometimes served merely to keep their recipients off National Assistance , though still on the margins of poverty .
12 Appellate counsel 's point was that P was anxious to make it clear that the major part of the blame for the offences fell on others , and he might not have appreciated that the statement could be used against him ; it was thus unfair .
13 For we think it clear that the new agreement made by the plaintiff with Samuel Revill , to receive from him £100 in full payment of one of the three notes and in part payment of the other two , before they became due , accompanied with the erasure of his name from those two notes , and followed by the actual receipt of £100 , was in law a discharge of Samuel Revill .
14 The present Survey makes it clear that the continued circulation of such lists has again failed to stimulate the use of foreign-language publications .
15 That answer , at least , is consistent with the passage in Questions of Procedure which makes it clear that the internal arrangement of Cabinet business is no concern of Parliament or public .
16 Officials make it clear that the actual cost is not yet known .
17 However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market .
18 His criticisms of religion and its associated morality , with its hostility to rational thinking , make it clear that the respected majority of people in Europe and America were not seen as being ‘ normal ’ or ‘ healthy ’ .
19 Is not it clear that the excellent record of business investment in the United Kingdom reflects the fact that business men recognise the Government 's commitment to containing inflation in the long term ?
20 That makes it clear that the public debt targets are not rigid , they can be ap applied flexibly to take account of unemployment .
21 My noble and learned Friend and my right hon. Friend made it clear that the green form scheme would not be withdrawn until a full , free , prompt , and convenient form of professional advice was available to every asylum seeker .
22 The letter to the Hebrews makes it clear that the Old Testament sacrifice was at best an incomplete answer to the problem of sin .
23 Such inconsistencies make it clear that the age-regressed person is not actually functioning at the suggested age level , nor is his recollection truly accurate .
24 Finance ministers and officials taking part in the meetings made it clear that the whole package of financial aid was conditional on the former Soviet republics pressing ahead to establish market economies and taking prescribed measures for stabilization .
25 The meeting made it clear that the main reason for changes in relationships between the Council and the colleges was ‘ the need to give greater independence to colleges rather than the pressure of work at the Council ’ .
26 Sir Clive Wigram 's memorandum of the Buckingham Palace Conference makes it clear that the National Government was formed on quite specific conditions .
27 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 .
28 On the question of increased competence for the European institutions , the Foreign Secretary made it clear that the significant shift sought by the June draft treaty to enlarge Community competence in areas covered by qualified majority voting was unacceptable .
29 But Alan Smith , Test and County Cricket Board chief executive , was quick to make it clear that the governing body were not accusing the tourists of any malpractice with the ball .
30 The reassurance implied by Kohl 's proposal of Feb. 28 , that the West and East German parliaments should give a joint commitment guaranteeing the border after March 18 [ see p. 37260 ] , was undermined by a statement made on March 2 by the Chancellor 's Office in Bonn , indicating that such a commitment " would have to make it clear that the Polish government 's declaration of Aug. 23 , 1953 , waiving any claims to reparations from Germany [ see p. 15271 ] , remains valid , and that the rights of the Germans as agreed by Chancellor Kohl and [ Polish ] Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki in the joint declaration of Nov. 14 , 1989 [ see pp. 37048-49 ] , will be regulated by a treaty " .
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