Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] clear that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day .
2 Whatever the outcome , it 's clear that affairs shake marriages — often to their roots .
3 From the moment you bruise your thighs clambering into the bucket seats and flick the engine into life , it 's clear that compromises are out .
4 In reply , Michael Hutchins , director of conservation and science for the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums , stated : ‘ It is clear that zoos must be concerned about animal-welfare issues .
5 Sometimes it is clear that siblings do not like each other .
6 When one considers that the main reason that words are absent is that they are proper nouns , which will also be unavailable from the larger lexicon , it is clear that omissions are unavoidable .
7 But it is clear that companies should have a strategic approach to the issue just as they would with R&D .
8 The ‘ fashion ’ phase of recent years seems to be over , and it is clear that planners have to justify their place in the agency by their value to the agency and its clients .
9 From his commentary on Aristotle 's Physic , it is clear that Aquinas could never regard the Greek philosopher as an authority on matters of faith .
10 However since controls are imposed to achieve specific policy aims ( eg to reduce inflation ) it is clear that prices and incomes policies are more likely in some periods ( eg when inflation is high ) than others .
11 As this has been combined with a general relaxation of Industrial Development Certificate controls on the location of industry and reduced real spending on regional policy , it is clear that resources are being redirected from rural areas .
12 While some schools did evaluate in committee the development of the library in the context of the project — and it is clear that developments in pedagogy were attributed at least partly to the project — we were not made aware of any which specifically monitored the number of times children and teachers borrowed or read books purchased specifically with project funds .
13 From a purely cultural perspective , it is clear that developments in France were by no means a faithful reflection of cultural developments in the Soviet Union .
14 While we can not be certain about the precise structure it is clear that departments will have four main functions : assessment , purchasing of care , inspection of services and direct care provision ( Figure 8.2 ) .
15 Nevertheless , it is clear that charters were often important in determining ownership , as the quantity in which they were produced implies , and that boundary clauses could be taken very seriously .
16 To recapitulate , it is clear that differences in national legislation may not only have the effect of preventing a good or service produced in one state being sold in another , but may also distort conditions of competition between manufacturers or suppliers located in different Member States of the Community .
17 It is clear that firms are taking the regulatory regime seriously ; nearly all have taken steps to comply with audit regulations .
18 Turning to the impact of corporate discretion on communities more generally , it is clear that decisions about the location of company activities can have major implications for the economic , environmental , social , and cultural well-being of urban centres and entire regions .
19 As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time .
20 However , it is clear that benefits help to reduce income inequality .
21 It is clear that countries with fixed exchange rates and those with flexible exchange rates face difficulties when they experience inflation rates higher than those of their major trading partners .
22 It is clear that Ministers are intent on a campaign of vilification and attack on Mr. Bruce Millan , the European Commissioner responsible for regional development .
23 It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice .
24 The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day .
25 Yet it is clear that things are not as straightforward as later Christian tradition would have one believe .
26 In the nuclear family with small children it is clear that parents normally are in charge .
27 It is clear that ratepayers have standing to challenge a wide variety of decisions , including expenditure decisions , by local authorities ; whereas it is clear from the Fleet Street Casuals case that the right of taxpayers to challenge decisions of the Revenue concerning the tax liability of other taxpayers , let alone to challenge policy decisions of central government , is limited .
28 It is clear that individuals in the ‘ higher ’ occupational groupings are far more likely to have high incomes and to be owner-occupiers than those in the lower groupings , and it is also clear that children of higher category parents have a much better chance of extending their education beyond the minimum , and of qualifying for higher status occupations themselves ( Goldthorpe , 1980 , Halsey et al . ,
29 If the cumulative burden of all this is descriptive of the fine chemicals industry , it is clear that manufacturers of such products are aiming very high indeed .
30 While it is clear that politicians and zaibatsu groups were the object of a more aggressively nationalist movement in rural areas , there was also some strong anti-landlord sentiment .
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