Example sentences of "clear [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will often clear up the particular concern . |
| 2 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 3 | wearing household ( rubber ) gloves , clear up the soiled paper , place in a polythene bag and clean the surface with detergent |
| 4 | The summer 's sprawl begins to be oppressive at this stage in the year and trigger fingers are itching to snip back overgrown mallows , clear out the mildewing foliage of golden rod and reduce the overpowering bulk of bullyboy ground cover . |
| 5 | You will have to put in fresh leafy stalks every day , take out the old stripped stems , and clear out the prodigious amounts of droppings the caterpillars produce . |
| 6 | Chapter 8 can not claim to clear up the confusing array of approaches but it will offer some guidance , though with the definition of a national curriculum the role for the school in this is unclear . |
| 7 | The Bible provides a clear and simple way to clear up the major cause of trouble , and that way is reconciliation . |
| 8 | When we 've got an economic mess , the first duty of a government is to clear up the economic mess . |
| 9 | For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created . |
| 10 | I can Promise you that the police will do everything they can to find Mr. Stavanger , and to clear up the other matters we have been discussing . " |
| 11 | Melanie went to clear up the broken toy . |
| 12 | And the remaining cash is to be set aside to clear up the old Blacketts brickworks off Alexander Street , Darlington , where residents have complained of fly tipping . |
| 13 | We will do everything we can to clear up the open questions . ’ |
| 14 | We will do everything we can to clear up the open questions . ’ |
| 15 | This is the same set of attitudes which causes people to clear out the unwanted gear out of their lofts to send to Ethiopia rather than enabling the Ethiopians to get the best training possible as irrigation engineers , doctors and agricultural scientists and economists . |
| 16 | Perhaps now we 'll see a happier Oval under a manager who 's prepared to clear out the old guard from ex-stalwarts down to assistant kitman . |
| 17 | To get it to work properly , we have to clear out the old powder , which are our old conditioned thought patterns , and replace them with the right ones . |
| 18 | This led to Unionist accusations that the SDLP was boycotting the process ; however , the Ulster Unionist Party announced on May 29 that it was also withdrawing until Brooke cleared up the procedural issues . |
| 19 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 20 | I cleared out the forgotten corners which exist in every family home , sending old clothes to jumble sales , and asking boy scouts to collect useless piles of old newspapers and magazines . |
| 21 | They may have come upon documents relating to their early life when they cleared out the dead parents ' papers . |
| 22 | Anti-vice campaigners like former boxer , Eddie Neilson have all but cleared up the red-light district . |
| 23 | The Steward 's party , having cleared out the domestic quarters , arrived at that side of the keep , driving before them a crowd of servitors and general retainers , women amongst them , many only partially clad . |
| 24 | He was still grinning when he left the centre and as Rachel began clearing up the soiled dressings she strained her ears to hear what was being said in the office . |
| 25 | LUKE SAT ON AN expo love-seat in Club World at Heathrow , drinking Volvic and availing himself of a complimentary fax machine — clearing up the initial paperwork with Mike on the poem . |