Preposition: that

• man: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

• government: It is self-evident that central government has to give leadership responsible not only for resourcing, but obviously for wider macro-economic issues.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: A satisfactory solution is fairly self-evident: two co-operating independent viable States.

• almost: The answer seems almost self-evident, namely, yes.

• so: Perhaps these links are seen as so self-evident as not requiring analysis or formal discussion?

• not: The purpose of comments in general is to make clear what is not self-evident.

• also: The environmental sensitivity of such major development was also self-evident on my short voyage.

• seemingly: The word " information " has been dropped as a modifier, leaving " technology " as a pure, seemingly self-evident label.

Modifies a noun

• truth: Any strategy which does not recognize these self-evident truths is doomed to failure.

• proposition: The argument We start from the self-evident proposition that teaching and learning have to be interactive.

• fact: The rectitude of the motive of a man like Hadhrat Umar is a self-evident fact.

• principle: The important point is that what has seemed for centuries to be a self-evident principle is now the topic of vigorous debate.

• axiom: After all, mathematical statements can, in general, be derived from a set of self-evident axioms by the application of irrefutable logic.

• truism: The result is that the authors too often fall back upon self-evident truisms to structure their work.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The answer seems almost self-evident, namely, yes.

• appear: To the casual observer it appears self-evident that there can be no peace without an end to violence.

• become: Yet the success of these reforms has become self-evident.

• mean: But the converse implication that weak IPRs will produce benefit is by no means self-evident.

• consider: Because compassion is considered self-evident as a foundational value, further explanations are rare.