Example sentences of "[v-ing] it clear " in BNC.
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1 | He drew a long breath , keeping it clear , keeping it steady , keeping it low . |
2 | A dune had encroached onto the road and he was slicing away its tip , tossing it clear of the tarmac behind him . |
3 | He put the letter aside and took a fresh piece of parchment , smoothing it out and rubbing it clear with a pumice stone . |
4 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
5 | The bishops claimed , however , they were making it clear that people could in conscience vote for the introduction of divorce without incurring moral blame provided they made the decision in a reflective and conscientious way . |
6 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
7 | Yes , he said , we are , making it clear that they were joint social secretaries . |
8 | On the contrary he strode in , rubbing his hands and making it clear that he , too , would like a piece of venison , and he being Bodo it was not really possible to refuse him . |
9 | Mr Berge anticpated , making it clear that he could see no necessity for such an attitude . |
10 | Many of the collaborators in L* have been invited — making it clear that the quarrel was with Dr Ting , not his colleagues . |
11 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
12 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has said that it is impossible to itemise every circumstance that amounts to a breach of natural justice , while making it clear that , for example , a manager should not normally act both as ‘ witness and judge ’ in the procedure leading to a decision to dismiss . |
13 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
14 | If you feel very inhibited by the artificiality of the situation you will give a very inaccurate impression of the sort of person you really are , perhaps even overcompensating for nerves by being too gregarious and obvious and making it clear that you are not good at handling yourself in a social situation . |
15 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
16 | TREVOR FRANCIS spent the whole of his playing career at the highest level and is now making it clear he 's not going to drop those standards as a manager . |
17 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
18 | ‘ Nay , 't is too risky , ’ said Edward , making it clear none the less that he had set aside his former objections . |
19 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
20 | Paula was making it clear that she was the boss and that Baker had to do as he was told — whether sailing her yacht or sipping drinks . |
21 | For others the best way might be talking dirty about safer sex , or just by making it clear what you want by your actions . |
22 | He fleshed out the bones of the skeleton he had constructed , making it clear that , in a very massive and consequential way , his perception of blackness had affected his whole career . |
23 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
24 | Thus it is that the company is halving its prices , making it clear that the competition with NT will be serious . |
25 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
26 | Making it clear that it really does recognise that the only way to revitalise its languishing business units is to hire outsiders for some of the key positions , IBM Corp late Friday announced that as well as making its AdStar Inc storage unit a wholly-owned subsidiary , it had hired industry veteran Ed Zschau , System Industries Inc founder and one-term Republican representative , to be its chairman and chief executive — and an IBM vice-president , relegating the unit 's former general manager Ray AbuZayyad to the post of president and chief operating officer . |
27 | That means making it clear that it will not allow anyone to steal the election , least of all the Cambodian army , which is the servant of the state , not of the CPP . |
28 | They would like to extract a declaration of intent , making it clear that , when the time comes , Israel will indeed implement Resolution 242 by withdrawing from the occupied lands . |
29 | Along with this distinction between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ , the Wolfenden Committee also distinguished between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , making it clear that it was only concerned with the former . |
30 | Hence the company is halving its prices ( see front page ) , making it clear that the competition with NT will be serious . |