Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] clear that " in BNC.

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1 Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech .
2 At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people .
3 Whatever the future of the ferry industry it seems clear that the Channel ports are bound to suffer sharp job losses in the short term .
4 At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island .
5 By 1852 the Court was established in the form which it was to retain until 1870 , and from its inception it became clear that this was not only a new Court but a new type of court .
6 After a moment it became clear that Alexei was excusing himself .
7 On careful examination it became clear that the cartouche had been engraved .
8 During the course of the meeting it became clear that the council is considering withdrawing the bill for a second time in the hope of being able to adopt a new parliamentary order-making procedure under the 1992 Transport and Public Works Act , which may come into force in the next parliamentary session .
9 But , as Hoet , Baere , Tazzi and I discussed the exhibition , at a certain point it became clear that one of the best ways to talk about art is to let art speak for itself .
10 Within a short while it became clear that this policy was damaging the rice crop .
11 And once we take notice that in reality individual holdings in companies , other than in exceptional cases , give the holder negligible rights of control it becomes clear that ownership of corporate property could make no distinctive contribution to the realisation of whatever individual interests might be specified .
12 From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles .
13 Example — a vessel insured for $1,500 and following a major casualty it becomes clear that it can not be repaired for less than $1,700 .
14 In each case it seemed clear that local adaptation was taking place , showing — as far as Pearson and Weldon were concerned — that natural selection was an effective evolutionary mechanism .
15 On closer inspection it becomes clear that this is , in fact , Mario meets F-Zero , the super-fast , futuristic racing sim that took the SNES by storm — thanks to brilliant 3-D graphics and Mode 7 , the SNES 's 360-degree rotation feature .
16 But on closer inspection it becomes clear that their validity as evidence depends crucially on how the key concepts in the theory are to be defined , and on what empirical conditions they have to meet to be sustained .
17 At first sight , nine tricks are comparatively easy , but on closer inspection it becomes clear that it is impossible to get at all of them .
18 In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers .
19 The hon. Gentleman might be referring to the fact that on receipt of the Southern board 's investment appraisal for the refurbishment of Banbridge hospital it became clear that there were a number of deficiencies in the document , as certain issues had not been properly addressed .
20 If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation .
21 We were never confident the system was going to fly , and towards the end it became clear that they would never recover the cost of the investment ’ .
22 In the following year it became clear that fascism was not confined to Germany and Italy but was a development common to all European countries .
23 In retrospect it seems clear that this ideological shift was made , as were a whole series of later ones , because the Soviet Union in its role as emerging superpower ( rather than as leading socialist nation ) wished to respond to a perceived change in the world situation in a more positive way than was permitted by the orthodox formulations .
24 Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world .
25 IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes .
26 But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs .
27 With time it became clear that the new region was too distant from Tornsk to be controlled with ease .
28 For the first time it became clear that in manpower terms the USSR was deploying the largest R and D effort in the world .
29 In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika .
30 In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages .
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