Example sentences of "it [was/were] clear that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We held out strongly in the EC to have our standards implemented widely throughout the Community and when it was clear that other nations were not of a similar mind , we voted against the directive . |
| 2 | However , when he met those advisers a few days after assuming office , it was clear that many of them were gravely suspicious of Russian aims in the post-war period . |
| 3 | NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language . |
| 4 | By the end of the 1980s it was clear that many UK banks were overexposed to overseas lending risks , especially in less developed countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 5 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 6 | By 1980 it was clear that such villages were doing little to improve the lot of their members , whose livelihood now depended on their effective integration into the cash economy . |
| 7 | Referring to IBM 's own plans , Gillett said that details had not yet been worked out , but it was clear that additional plant capacity would be needed to reprocess computer parts . |
| 8 | Gaelic is Hebrew but no one knew this until Pitman invented shorthand and then without the vowels it was clear that Gaelic and Hebrew were the same . |
| 9 | By early 1960 it was clear that Blue Streak would be much too vulnerable to a pre-emptive First Strike by Soviet missiles to maintain the credibility of the British nuclear deterrent . |
| 10 | It was always intended that single men would have their pension rights protected while at home looking after children or dependent relatives , but it was not until the regulations were published in January 1978 that it was clear that married men would be included . |
| 11 | Legislation on privatization was passed in May [ see p. 38190 ] , but by late 1991 it was clear that large-scale foreign assistance would be needed to prevent hardship as Mongolia attempted to develop a market economy . |
| 12 | He had been relatively easy to control in the north while it was clear that all the going rested with Hope but in London , Newton had been much more sinister . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never seen one before , ’ she said excitedly , when it was clear that that was to be their only sighting . |
| 14 | Over the course of time , it was clear that that was where its economic interests lay . |
| 15 | In the coal-miners ' strike of 1984–5 , It was clear that one of the social structures that reinforced the militancy of many strikers was the community within which each mine was located . |
| 16 | But pretty soon into the new model 's life it was clear that adverse press reaction was far from Ford 's biggest worry . |
| 17 | Until suitable workshop facilities could be made , it was clear that little could be done on the Oxford 's airframe . |
| 18 | In terms of the overall needs employers had of young people , it was clear that non-academic criteria , attitudes to work and personal characteristics , and basic skills , essentially those of reading , writing and arithmetic , were far more important to employers than academic qualifications . |
| 19 | By then it was clear that diplomatic representation was the prerogative of sovereigns alone . |
| 20 | By the tear by the time each of them came to give evidence in this case it was clear that each had brought forward in their own minds the time when daytime carers would be needed . |
| 21 | By early 1950 it was clear that certain countries , foremost among them France , Italy and the Benelux states , were ready to consider a partial loss of sovereignty to supranational institutions . |
| 22 | It was clear that original thought was being shown all round . |
| 23 | As they poured into Westminster from remote corners of the Scottish highlands and seats in the English shires ( fifty-nine of the government supporters had attended less than one tenth of the sittings of the house in that session ) , it was clear that those who had championed the House of Lords as a place where party discipline took second place to wisdom had an altogether too rosy view of things . |
| 24 | Hence I take the view that the absence of any reference to the criterion of proportionality in the B. & Q. judgment is not of fundamental importance and that the reason for the omission lay in the specific circumstances of the case , from which it was clear that any obstacles which might be created were not particularly serious . |
| 25 | They were relaxed and puffing on cigarettes ; it was clear that any responsibility for the inert procession which now crocodiled back out of the village failed to bother them . |
| 26 | From the very beginning of the campaign , it was clear that racial issues were not on any party 's agenda . |
| 27 | It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs . |
| 28 | In each case , the new school now contained fry of two different sizes , and so it was clear that some must have come from another family . |
| 29 | It was clear that some clients would let their whole lives revolve around daily contact with their dealers . |
| 30 | It was clear that some notion of popular sovereignty provided the only plausible basis on which to challenge the theory and practice of absolutism . |