Preposition: that

• something: I didn't enjoy the holiday much as it was obvious that something was wrong.

Preposition: at

• glance: Thus a master will have much more to bring to a self-defence situation than appears obvious at first glance.

Modifies a noun

• reason: For obvious reasons, North Koreans have learned Russian.

• choice: The most obvious choice was a new Win 95 notebook used by a field tech.

• advantage: Aside from the obvious corrective advantages, formal verse frees one from the fetters of one's ego.

• example: The most obvious example is Hong Kong, source of 30 % of all FDI into mainland China in 2005.

• conclusion: The party apparatus drew the obvious conclusion from Mandelson's humiliation.

• implication: Such news network linkages had obvious implications for creating uniformity in coverage.

Modifying Another Word

• blindingly: Simon Cox will take 27 minutes to explain the blindingly obvious.

• blatantly: It's also full of subtext examining issues in our society without being blatantly obvious.

• glaringly: All this is possible because the report points out some glaringly obvious truths that have been ignored for too long.

• fairly: The steps to the upper level on the far side are fairly obvious here.

• patently: However it was patently obvious by then that it was daft to continue.

• painfully: This may seem painfully obvious but the notion of an arrow of time is important.

Infinitive complement

• mention: Perhaps too obvious to mention, but too important to leave out.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Putting on my Business Analyst's hat, the solution seemed obvious.

• become: The similarity to the royal wedding of Rev becomes obvious based simply on the parallels of motif.

• appear: In the early days, the need for such people in the call center may not have appeared obvious.

• sound: Sounds quite obvious, but you must wager in at betting limits where you can defeat the best part of players.

Preposition: from

• outset: Sometimes however, it is obvious from the outset that a particular item might benefit from two reviews from quite different points of view.