Example sentences of "[verb] [be] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 2 | The starting-point in Eastern Europe has been clear rejection of Marxist economics and clear commitment to a market system , complete with private ownership and private enterprise . |
| 3 | But the spirit and the optimism of young people around the world has been clear : from Czechoslovakia to Romania , in Hungary and Germany , they have been vital to the movements that have brought such change . |
| 4 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 5 | It has been clear from the beginning that there are problems here for teachers having to assess a whole range of attainment targets across the curriculum . |
| 6 | But his route there has been clear and straightforward . |
| 7 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 8 | From the outset , it has been clear that COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , would have to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place ( CI No 2,142 ) . |
| 9 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 10 | FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way . |
| 11 | This , in their view , has been clear enough : Article 1 of the Rome Treaty states , ‘ By this Treaty the high contracting parties establish among themselves a EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ’ . |
| 12 | The Government 's commitment to the coal industry has been clear over the past 10 years or more ; they have also shown their commitment to a successful future for the industry . |
| 13 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 14 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 15 | The survey reveals that 7 per cent of ancient woodland has been clear felled , mostly for agriculture , and that a further 38 per cent has been replanted with conifers . |
| 16 | The constitutional position of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill has been clear from the outset . |
| 17 | We need to pick be clear about the erm allocation of time for librarians , for the careers guidance agreements as well . |
| 18 | Just how seriously intended was the concocted story of The Lady Vanishes is clear from an early script which opens with a cut from a shot of Nazis strutting to geese on similar manoeuvres . |
| 19 | The 1937 sound as transferred is clear and welldetailed but rather lacks tonal depth . |
| 20 | The crimes that are put under these headings were identified in the last chapter , but that such distinctions are made is clear , for example , in the casual remarks the police make when responding to the respective incidents . |
| 21 | So there was no entrance there and all they could do was clear by the main lodge . |
| 22 | Erm , all we need to make sure is that the filing system we 've got is clear and is understandable and we 've got it written down somewhere how works . |
| 23 | The roles of teacher and taught were clear , especially as he spoke gently to the boy showing him how to untangle a line-'if you 're mad with it , it will get mad back' . |
| 24 | What I want to do is clear that with Mr and Mrs as well pay half of that |
| 25 | The ramifications in terms of outcrossing are clear . |
| 26 | But had anyone in New York thought to look in New Orleans , it would have been clear that his life was as disorderly as ever . |
| 27 | Alida stepped from the surgery door into sudden sunlight , and beneath the contempt and the anger was a seed of relief , of new hope , of freedom , for the instrument did not lie , the sounds must have been clear , she had no heart disease , no weakness , no need to accept the fact of death . |
| 28 | Biblical motifs recur — some art-experts call them sermons in stone , and their messages would certainly have been clear to the often-illiterate medieval pilgrims trudging to Santiago de Compostela in Spain . |
| 29 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 30 | It may mislead people into obeying the law where , but for their consent , it would have been clear to them that it is better to disobey . |