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The obvious way of reducing pollution is to use cars less.

Your obvious plan to take me home and ravish me will not work.

Well, that idea was less obvious.

If it looks contrived and if it’s obvious a person deliberately arranged everything, it takes away from the simplicity and the natural feel of the work.

But I still don’t understand why, I mean, isn’t it obvious?

But because it doesn’t grow naturally, without human cultivation, and because there’s no obvious wild relative of maize, um, well, for the longest time researchers weren’t able to find any clear link between maize and other living plants.

First, and most obvious, the apex of the Nile River delta was a politically opportune location for the state's administrative center, standing between the united lands of Upper and Lower Egypt and offering ready access to both parts of the country.

It is possible for anyone to create "ideas" about the nature and structure of the universe, for instance, and many times these ideas can be so consistent and elaborately structured, or just so apparently obvious, that they can be persuasive to many people.

First, it's obvious that people reading a car magazine are interested in cars.

Another factor is that the United States Forest Service in the first decade of the 1900s adopted the policy of fire suppression (attempting to put out forest fires) for the obvious reason that it did not want valuable timber to go up in smoke, or people's homes and lives to be threatened.

But over time, it started becoming increasingly obvious and troubling to the public that some of these big companies simply had too much control.

The advantage of teeth and claws as predatory tools is obvious.

Ah, here's where we need to look beyond obvious factors and consider things like culinary preferences.

While this contest over an unoccupied nest site produced no obvious mortality, fights over occupied nests sometimes kill over 1,000 bees in a single battle.

There’s a link between biodiversity and pedodiversity, an obvious relationship between soils and flora and fauna, which is why pedodiversity really should be considered in forest management.

This would be an obvious advantage to wide-ranging deer, especially to a socially dominant buck when courting several adult females during the autumn rut.

When completed, the buck rub is an obvious visual signal to us and presumable to other deer in the area.

Well, like wolves, the young pups, they fight a lot and bite, you know, not to hurt each other, but ... It just seems obvious why those wolf pups play like that.

So much is obvious.

As the different families of venomous snakes evolved, the teeth moved forward, becoming larger, and the venom becoming stronger, so the evolution of the obvious venomous snakes, like cobras and vipers, is about the evolution of an efficient delivery system, not so much the evolution of the venom itself.

My personal opinion is that they have to be different groups of people because developers often have a bias for their own work, and it blinds them to certain problems that might be obvious to somebody else.

So that's pretty obvious.

The most obvious difference between the terrestrial and the Jovian planets is their size.

But back to your question, Michael, as to whether these graves were designed to be used by the living, well, certainly with regard to astronomical or calendar function that seems pretty obvious.

Now, for a customer base, uh, the most obvious example would be a large office building, since the employees could theoretically go shopping after work or during their lunch hour, right?

But these are the obvious changes, but there are also less obvious changes like the climate.

Apparently, the most obvious reason for teachers to work toward reflective practice is that teacher educators think it is a good thing.

One way of doing that is to come up with what’s called “a character sketch”, I don’t mean a sketch like a drawing, I guess that’s obvious.

It should be obvious that cetaceans—whales, porpoises, and dolphins—are mammals.

Well, you can imagine that there was some interest in why the 2.8 spot in the pattern was skipped, and um . . . but there wasn’t anything obvious there, in the early telescopes.

Of course, the obvious question is how did that sand end up so far west?

I know you really like him, but you don’t have to be so obvious about it.