Example sentences of "[vb past] make clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 2 | Britain 's member , Martin Morland , said the commission needed to make clear that Muslims and Croat fighters had committed human rights violations as well as Serbs . |
| 3 | Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval . |
| 4 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 5 | But he said he wished Mr Ridley had made clear that the strong argument for conservation was only over-ridden because of ‘ a combination of wholly exceptionable circumstances ’ , and that the case was ‘ unique ’ because of the high standard of the proposed scheme . |
| 6 | As the STACWQ had made clear in 1984 , the nitrate problem would go on getting worse for decades into the future . |
| 7 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
| 8 | By the end of the nineteenth century it was fairly obvious that the dialogue was not materializing , as the social and political events of the 1880s had made clear , and the employers ' counter-attack on trade unions in the 1890s gave little hope for any kind of reconciliation . |
| 9 | At least , she thought , she had made clear to Stephen the fact that she was not happy living in his mother 's shadow . |
| 10 | As time had gone by , and Constance 's conversation had made clear the depth of her friendship with his great aunt , he had been afraid to tell her , fearing exactly the reaction he had now received . |
| 11 | On May 17th it said that it would not decide whether to hear an appeal challenging California 's ‘ unitary tax ’ on multinational companies until the administration had made clear its views on the matter . |
| 12 | The NCR spokeswoman denied claims that Teradata had been guaranteed its independence from NCR , saying that from the outset , management had made clear its intention to merge operations . |
| 13 | The issue was raised by Mr Burns at a meeting with the Transport Secretary earlier this week , and he said yesterday he had made clear the ‘ united opposition ’ to the scheme which existed . |
| 14 | As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests . |
| 15 | Throughout his campaign , Reagan had made clear his intention to cut government expenditure , to lower taxes and to increase defence spending , and he and his staff now moved to make a reality of those promises . |
| 16 | As the agreement of 1474 had made clear , Gloucester was Percy 's lord . |
| 17 | In particular , as a first step towards clearing the area , he was suggesting that , as Macmillan had advised , the Cossacks should be handed over to the Soviet authorities , although , as he had made clear to Tolbukhin 's HQ , he could not do this without Gen McCreery 's authorization . |
| 18 | Stalin had made clear that the Soviet Government acknowledged no Prisoners of War — " Russia has only soldiers in her army , dead soldiers or traitors " . |
| 19 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 20 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 21 | Or so John-William Dallam 's lawyers had made clear to him when he had signed the marriage-contract a week ago , telling him what his allowance was to be , what it was meant to cover , by how much he could overdraw , to whom he would be answerable if his affairs fell into disarray , making it all sound more like an application for employment than a romance . |
| 22 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 21 reported that Daim had made clear his intention to retire before the October 1990 general election . |
| 23 | It was also encouraged that Bush had made clear his intention to maintain pressure on the South African regime through other means . |
| 24 | Alienated by his brusque personality , many administration members and close Bush associates had made clear their reluctance to serve under him . |
| 25 | As the agreement of 1474 had made clear , Gloucester was Percy 's lord . |
| 26 | Cuban officials had made clear that these spoiled or blank ballots would not be considered valid and so did not affect the election . |
| 27 | Mr Lamont said he had made clear he would recoup the cost when he abolished car tax . |
| 28 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 29 | This the Board failed to make clear . |
| 30 | Some charities failed to make clear who the report was aimed at and ran too many pages of tightly packed detail . |