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Through hearing stories with a clear beginning, middle, and ending children may learn to extract the gist of events in ways that they will be able to describe many years later.

The book is clear, readable, and adequately illustrated.

I made it clear we continue to fight the Chimera invaders.

But it's not clear who exactly invented them first or exactly what year.

But now, what about cases where an animal exhibits a clear choice between two suitable habitats?

OK, well, to start with, let's make it clear that language is a type of communication, not the other way around.

What the proxy records make abundantly clear is that there have been significant natural changes in the climate over timescales longer than a few thousand years.

Even better, it establishes Ambulocetus as a clear link between the wolf-like creature and Basilosaurus.

Just as painted designs on Greek pots may seem today to be purely decorative, whereas in fact they were carefully and precisely worked out so that at the time, their meaning was clear, so it is with Chinese pots.

He then set up experiments with caged starlings and found that their orientation was, in fact, in the proper migratory direction except when the sky was overcast, at which times there was no clear direction to their restless movements.

That will become more clear with practice.

Geologists in the far future will be able to examine the sediment being laid down today, whereas right now we can say that, yes, human impact on the Earth is clear.

Well, we are not sure actually, the clearer thing is even though the sun is warning the frog up on the outside, its inside thaw out first, the heart and brain and everything.

Like, maybe there is no real context, like no definite surroundings, especially compared to the woman herself, since she is so clear and well-defined.

OK, then there's the maxims of manner, including things like be clear, and avoid ambiguity.

I am pretty clear on how to carry out my project, but I am not sure where I can find more information on the subject.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

In Astronomy, for example, the distinction between the solar system and the universe wasn't clear until modern times.

Well, that's not clear at this point.

It's graceful and clear.

In the 1970s when the study of Australian archaeology was in an exciting phase of development, with the great antiquity of rock art becoming clear.

But her style was a clear rebellion against ballet, and ballet is extremely important in Russia.

You know, I am still not too clear about the hydrologic cycle, um, the transfer of water back and forth between the earth and the atmosphere.

And in addition to all that, it is not even clear that assisted migration or any migration for that matter, will help at least for some species.

I should have been clear.

But Goethe wasn’t really able to establish a clear connection between colors and emotions.

The direction of your argument isn't crystal clear.

I thought everyone was clear about this, but you've just given me a great idea.

Thus, many species have evolved clear signals to delineate playfulness.

Thus, whether play occurs or not depends on the intention of the animals, and the intentions are not always clear from behaviors alone.

One of the problems in providing a clear definition of play is that it involves the same behaviors that take place in other circumstance--dominance, predation, competition, and real fighting.

That should make things clear.

The first clear steps in the rise of the first civilizations took place in the fourth and third millennia B.C. in Mesopotamia, northern Africa, India, and China.

OK. As decades passed, it became clear that measuring river flow was much more complicated than we had thought.

And as you can imagine, as the populations of these states began to grow, it became clear that a system to distribute, uh, to make sure each state got its fair share of water…some kind of system had to be created.

There are three clear peaks in leaf cover at heights of approximately 3, 6, and 30 meters above the ground; and the very highest layer, at 50 meters, corresponds to the very tall trees that stand free of the main canopy and form an open layer of their own.

Professor: Yes. Well, like in the 1970s, when it was already clear the North American cod population was declining dramatically, the US and Canada declared a 200-mile exclusive economic zone in the waters around Cape Cod.

All with big, clear signs to help you find what you're looking for: soups, salads, desserts.

It was unclear whether the forest had been cleared by farmers to plant fields, or by hunter-gatherers, so they could hunt more easily.

Yes. So the question is, given all these clear disadvantages, why would Arctic people choose to make and use ceramic cooking vessels? Sue?

Now, I want to make it clear that, um, the positive result from being in a mutualistic relationship doesn't have to be equal for both organisms.

But there are quite a few of us out there who think there should be a clearer distinction made between the two.

The Italians, on the other hand, had a clear typeface known as roman that became the type of the future.

What is clear from the vast body of texts (some 20,000 tablets were found in King Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh) is that scribes took pride in their writing and knowledge.

Whatever the answer, it is clear that a general framework is required to ensure that any translocation is justified, has a realistic chance of success, and will be properly monitored and evaluated for the benefit of future efforts.

Domesticable animals tend to live in herds or packs, with clear dominance hierarchies.

I'm sorry if my email wasn't clear.

Soon it became clear that the Portuguese parliament intended to set the clock back by abrogating all the liberties and concessions won by Brazil since 1808.

I'm not sure the distinction between the two was all that clear in the 1800s.

In the archaeological record of the Natufian period, from about 12,500 to 10,200 years ago, in the part of the Middle East known as the Levant - roughly east of the Mediterranean and north of the Arabian Peninsula - we see clear evidence of agricultural origins.

Clear water gushed into the irrigational channel.

Around 1000 C.E., European monks would take a piece of clear rock, often quartz, and place it on top of the reading material.

It was one of the first dairies to bottle milk in opaque plastic, but now they're using clear plastic again.

And yet most milk bottles are clear.

You know, clear plastic bottles, opaque bottles, carton board containers..

Painted-glass windows are still referred to as stained-glass, but the colors were, actually, painted directly onto clear glass after the glass was made.

Well, I know a little bit about it, but I am not clear about its use in biology.

High thin clouds are very transparent to solar radiation, like, uh, clear air.

Sun clocks worked, of course, only on clear days; water clocks misbehaved when the temperature fell toward freezing, to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging.

The water would be clearer, allowing more sunlight to reach deeper into the water, which might lead to more food for birds and other animals, attracting new wildlife to the area.

On clear still nights when the heat island is pronounced, a small thermal low-pressure area forms over the city.

In order to spawn, salmon need cold, clear streams to ensure the survival of their eggs.

To clear that rubbish away they may have to bulldoze.

But the problem, well, as natural habitat along these migration routes is developed by humans for housing or agriculture or cleared for raising cattle, for instance, there is less food available for migrating humming birds.

Early farmers started clearing forests and livestock produced a lot of extra methane.

Why were these hundreds of thousands of settlers—most of them farmers, some of them artisans—drawn away from the cleared fields and established cities and villages of the East?

If the irritation is severe enough, a sleeping person will arouse, clear the airway, then resume breathing and likely return to sleep.

A worsening of the plight of deer was to be expected as settlers encroached on the land, logging, burning, and clearing, eventually replacing a wilderness landscape with roads, cities, towns, and factories.

It might be that yawning helps to clear out the lungs by periodically lowering the pressure in them.

It has been suggested that yawning and hiccupping might serve to clear out the fetuses airways.