Example sentences of "[was/were] clear [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 2 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 3 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 4 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 5 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 6 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 7 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 8 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |