Example sentences of "have [adv] been aware " in BNC.

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1 He recalls how , seeing England from his own urban American background he has always been aware that the natural habitat of the Englishman was the little rural community and that industrial and large towns were accepted with reluctance .
2 Mikhail Budyko , the most revered figure of Soviet climatology , has never been noted as a cold war warrior , but he has always been aware of the limitations imposed on the Soviet Union by its climate .
3 He has always been aware of his spiritual nature : ‘ When I was seven I was visited by 40 judged — beings of light — who spoke to me about my role here .
4 The nation has always been aware of its pre-eminent position , and proud of a moral ascendancy in the political sphere which has been sustained for centuries .
5 Penny believes that Diana has always been aware of her own destiny .
6 Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ .
7 Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports .
8 I was no more alert to my environment than a sick animal and I must have somehow been aware of that , because it was then that I remembered the starveling cat .
9 Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time .
10 However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of .
11 Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening .
12 A vibration that Ace had hardly been aware of ceased : the spacewalk jets closing down automatically .
13 ‘ You mean to tell me , Peter , that you 've always been aware of this spate of ‘ reprisals ’ on officials of the fallen Government ? ’
14 No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ?
15 But in reality she had always been aware of its presence .
16 The challenge of the reformers had been one great reality but the showmen had always been aware of the other reality and that was that very large numbers of ordinary people , and that included the rich and the poor and people from all nations , were fascinated by moving pictures .
17 The Princess had known Andrew since childhood and had always been aware that beneath the brash , noisy mask was a much shrewder and lonelier character than he or his family would admit .
18 Nicola Hammond had always been aware that her husband was a criminal .
19 When he arrived he put his cold , white hand in hers for a moment and said , ‘ Hello , Tessa , ’ as if he had always been aware of her as part of the background furnishings .
20 Alexei knew that he had always been aware of her — they were not strangers by any means — but now he straightened and stared in open admiration .
21 As a doctor he had always been aware of the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle .
22 Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous .
23 It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body .
24 At home she had never been aware of it .
25 Clinicians , however , have long been aware that the opposite can also be found : an excessive tendency to divergent thinking — though they have usually called it something else — which the person has difficulty in translating into focused thought .
26 Members of the Royal Family have long been aware that to remain in the public conscience requires coming to terms with , and feeding , the needs of the media .
27 As mariners have long been aware , a voyage from tropical to cold oceans is a passage from dearth to plenty .
28 In England , a number of reported criminal cases reveal instances of marital rape and women 's organisations have long been aware of the problem .
29 Industrial managers and behavioural scientists have long been aware of the need to introduce choice and control in the workplace .
30 I think we have always been aware of the contrast , though .
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