Example sentences of "[adv] realise [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If a giant cuts off somebody 's head , the spectacle is only realised as a striking and funny denouement …
2 The answer may seem obvious now , but it was not realised until the 1920s that creatures sense variations in the length of the day .
3 The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so .
4 The creed still makes sense but , as both Mr Gandhi and Mr Singh began dimly to realise in the 1980s , the doctrine does not .
5 Just how wicked she did n't realise until the next weekend , when she was on nights covering the regular night sister who was on holiday .
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