1.   Although there is never a clean slate on which to start planning, the new start provides the necessity for such planning.

2.   He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.

3.   Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate.

4.   Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.

5.   Standard variable cost is better as any inefficiencies stay in the transferring division and the receiving division starts with a clean slate.

6.   The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.

7.   When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.

8.   The proposal is to pay everything you owe, so that you can start with a clean slate.

9.   Why not wipe the slate clean and start all over again?

10.   Lord Buxton called on the government to start again with a clean slate.