Example sentences of "[vb -s] clear that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one comes to look at the judgments in the American Economic Laundry case , it appears clear that the approach which the court was adopting in that case was to regard the tenant against whom a possession order had been made as a statutory tenant who did not have all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts . |
| 2 | Whatever display and interaction techniques are used , it seems clear that a system which aims to satisfy the widely differing needs of widely differing types of user must already incorporate some degree of adaptivity . |
| 3 | Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion . |
| 4 | It seems clear that the Crown had greater powers of nomination in the more newly established institutions , that within all departments it was more likely to nominate to the most recently created offices , and that it was trying , with some measure of success , to extend its powers . |
| 5 | It has also sought , without much success , a guarantee against predatory pricing by Eurotunnel although it seems clear that the government would not allow the ferries to go bankrupt as the result of such a strategy . |
| 6 | It seems clear that the principle that remedies are a matter for the courts of Member States and the principle of effective protection are , potentially at least , in conflict ; and that ultimately the legal system which creates a right must also control the way that right is protected . |
| 7 | The villages were patrolled by company uniformed ‘ policemen ’ whose ‘ duties were primarily concerned with the maintenance of the appearance of the village , keeping the lawns tidy and litter off the streets , for example ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 98 ) , but Waller 's respondents also reported company ‘ policemen ’ who watched over children 's play , recorded untidy properties ( ‘ It seems clear that the threat of dismissal was thought to hang over men who did not keep their gardens tidy in several villages ’ — p. 100 ) , and ensured that dogs were not kept as pets ( thus preventing the men from engaging in the popular contemporary sport among miners of training and racing greyhounds and whippets ) . |
| 8 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 9 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 10 | It seems clear that the man who failed to secure peace in our time , did at least find a personal tranquillity on the banks of the River Churn . |
| 11 | It also seems clear that the trend will soon emerge elsewhere , for as Vining and Pallone ( 1982 ) in their study of 22 countries have argued , the phenomenon is due to the fact that the scale economies of the core regions of any country either have been or are being reduced , as the peripheral areas manage to offer sites that are as competitive as those of the core regions . |
| 12 | As a result , it seems clear that the prosecutor need not establish at the outset that such was the defendant 's intention or awareness . |
| 13 | However , such an interpretation would emasculate the section : for instance , it seems clear that the section was intended to apply to terms such as those commonly found in holiday contracts allowing a tour operator unilaterally to change accommodation and so on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , it seems clear that the custom is a relic of pre-Christian sun worship , a celebration of the fact of the sun reaching its Zenith and an offering as an earnest for the promise of a good harvest . |
| 16 | Although the rule does not specifically say so it seems clear that the plaintiff can treat the offer as an admission of liability and apply to enter judgment with damages to be assessed when ready . |
| 17 | It seems clear that the Commission needs more staff and more powers to police the 1992 legislation successfully , and the ECJ may require increased powers to ensure that failure to comply with Community law leads to punishment sufficient to deter countries and companies from breaking the laws on free movement . |
| 18 | With regard to the second and third limbs it seems clear that the statute requires not only the exclusion ( or virtual exclusion ) of the donor from the enjoyment of the gifted property ( second limb ) but also the exclusion ( or , presumably , the virtual exclusion ) of the donor from any benefit to him by contract or otherwise ( Oakes v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1954 ] AC 57 ) . |
| 19 | Apart from the argument that there is simply too much government ( eleven state parliaments and governments , a bi-cameral federal parliament and a federal cabinet with 39 ministers , all for a country with less than half the population of Britain ( 26 million ) ) , it seems clear that the policy of bilingualism has rendered the government opaque and bureaucratic . |
| 20 | Finally , it seems clear that the meaning of ‘ sufficient interest ’ is related to some extent to the ground on which the decision is being challenged . |
| 21 | It seems clear that the introduction of systems that can complement and help guide good diagnostic judgement and reasoning is worth evaluation . |
| 22 | It seems clear that the labour needs of the growing mining and manufacturing districts were not significantly met by long-distance migration , although by the end of the period Irish immigrants were contributing , especially to the factory towns of the North . |
| 23 | It seems clear that the value of the whole state of consciousness is not properly regarded as the sum of the value of its parts . |
| 24 | Although the belief in growth as a value in itself , or as the remedy for the ills of society , which seemed to be prevalent in the early 1960s has given way to a more sceptical attitude , it seems clear that an understanding of the long-run consequences of tax and expenditure policy is essential . |
| 25 | There comes a time in every project , he wrote , when it becomes clear that a head is no match for a wall . |
| 26 | When it becomes clear that the position is untenable Barker orders a helicopter evacuation of the surviving Americans , but he refuses to abandon his South Vietnamese allies . |
| 27 | These two passages should be read again and again before returning to the rest of the text , which is illuminated by them ; and it then becomes clear that the poem is a work of theory , and not a simple narrative of fact . |
| 28 | It thus becomes clear that the play of pronouns in the chiasmus of the narrative circuit through which the subject plays out its split existence does indeed function as an ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ in Thru , though not in the way Greimas intended . |
| 29 | If we conclude that it becomes clear that the trend , long-term , is away from the conventional type of power steering , with a valve mounted er in line with the input car |
| 30 | The influence remains dominant even when it becomes clear that the ill-health of many people has often more to do with the context of their lives and factors such as poverty , lack of access to land and food security , sanitation and employment . |