Example sentences of "make it plain " in BNC.

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1 They turned him down on ‘ security grounds ’ ; a lot of the Surinamese living in Holland make it plain that they do not like him at all .
2 These and other reports make it plain that attitudes were divided on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , now as before .
3 Whatever the explanation , episodes of this nature make it plain that in peacetime the purpose of Soviet forces is not just to ‘ be there ’ but to be used .
4 The Gospels themselves make it plain that he is not ‘ Simon Peter ’ but , rather , ‘ Simon called Peter ’ .
5 Subsequent chapters make it plain that their number was certainly too great for the wilderness to support — hence God 's special provision of manna .
6 Twelfth-century romances make it plain that for a noblewoman to suckle her own child implied a quite exceptional degree of love .
7 " The burial regulations and provision of mourning " , notes Stephen Jones , " make it plain that many a coasting man did not want to go to his maker like his deep-sea brother , sliding down a plank in a canvas sack with the last stitch through his nose " .
8 I obey ( I have no choice ) , but I 'm not happy , and I make it plain .
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