Example sentences of "[verb] it clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew a long breath , keeping it clear , keeping it steady , keeping it low . |
| 2 | Yeremi snatched it clear of the firing handle . |
| 3 | A dune had encroached onto the road and he was slicing away its tip , tossing it clear of the tarmac behind him . |
| 4 | SUPERMAN Derek Kaye leapt into action when a trailer loaded with a car ran over his godson — and lifted it clear with ONE hand . |
| 5 | Carefully removing the long pane of glass they had loosened from the skylight frame , the two men lifted it clear and Larsen propped it against his knees . |
| 6 | They have made it clear that from October 1991 aid disbursements will be conditional on improvements in the human rights record of the Sri Lankan government . |
| 7 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 8 | Lucy had made it clear , if only by silence , that talk of love panicked her . |
| 9 | Poststructuralists aspire to remove what they regard as the arbitrary distinctions between literature , criticism , theory , and philosophy , and Geoffrey Hartman has made it clear that he believes what he writes to be worthy of the esteem and attention normally given to ‘ creative ’ writing . |
| 10 | The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad . |
| 11 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher has made it clear that Britain remains as adamantly opposed as ever to sanctions and has no intention of joining in new measures against South Africa . |
| 13 | The Government has made it clear that it may not use its power of veto , which protects Jaguar from takeover until the end of next year by limiting individual investors to a 15 per cent holding . |
| 14 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 15 | Kenneth Baker , the Conservative Party chairman , has made it clear that he intends mounting an attack on the Labour leader 's personal qualities . |
| 16 | However , the unions have made it clear that they refuse even to discuss the proposed reforms and are not afraid to call their men out on strike . |
| 17 | Ford , however , has made it clear that it wants ultimate majority control of Jaguar — something which the company 's board , led by chairman Sir John Egan , is resisting fiercely . |
| 18 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | Nicholas Brady , the US Treasury Secretary and David Mulford , his aggressive deputy , have made it clear that they want Mr Greenspan to lower interest rates and do it quickly . |
| 20 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 21 | The 1989 policy review has made it clear that complete renationalization of privatized industries will not be a high priority for a future Labour government , that direct taxation will not be increased for those on average and slightly above average incomes , and that it is ‘ concerned ’ about law and order . |
| 22 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 23 | Although Mr Grant , of Barkingside , Essex , had made it clear these were children accounts he was twice advised his name should be put first . |
| 24 | However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis . |
| 25 | Mr Moore had made it clear he wanted a sterner system . |
| 26 | I think you had made it clear that Mr Yeo very much valued her . |
| 27 | It is not impossible , if he fails in the Gulf , to make progress on Palestine , where the Arab uprising of the past three years has made it clear that Israel can no longer maintain a decent stewardship of the occupied territories . |
| 28 | The past six months have made it clear that latent isolationism can be inflamed if it is felt that the allies are shirking . |
| 29 | And it has made it clear that any attempt to organise a system of regional arms control or supervision should exclude Israel . |
| 30 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |