Example sentences of "conscious of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the younger brother was moderate and willing to compromise , aware of the rights and claims of his subjects and of the impossibility of ruling despotically , the elder was conscious of no such limitation and , with the highest intentions , was deeply intolerant of all opposition . |
| 2 | The abrupt cessation of the draughts blowing into the room was a welcome relief , although Isabel was so chilled by now that she was conscious of no great change in the temperature . |
| 3 | But I am conscious of a sense of contradiction that clearly did not afflict those illustrious figures . |
| 4 | As I lay in the ditch I was suddenly conscious of a very strong indescribably sickly smell . |
| 5 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 6 | And yet , at the back of his mind he was conscious of a small unworthy feeling of satisfaction . |
| 7 | His head was throbbing , and he was conscious of a pain in the left eye . |
| 8 | Listening to these ‘ old ’ recordings , most of which date from the early days of this century up to 1939 , one is conscious of a technical vocal mastery , musical understanding and intensity of communication that bridges the years . |
| 9 | I am also conscious of a silent harmony with all those — past and to come — who have touched the beauty and inspiration of this place . |
| 10 | They were conscious of a tall man in the habit of a friar keeping a crew of ragged rascals at bay with his staff . |
| 11 | As they drew nearer they became conscious of a high pitched humming noise . |
| 12 | As the creature bent lower , bringing its face nearer to the point of being seen , she turned , conscious of a fleeting impression in the darkness at the top of the stairs of a pair of blazing eyes . |
| 13 | Miss Jarman 's rasping voice cut through Jess 's picture of herself as a fairground tumbler and she repeated her story in a flat monotone , conscious of a depressing conviction that the more often she told it , the more tangled she was becoming in this battle that was all about other people 's money and injured pride . |
| 14 | And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him . |
| 15 | Then she became conscious of a vast blood-red sun warming the pampas . |
| 16 | We should all be vaguely conscious of a disaster brought about by ourselves , a universal mutual degradation , and would be making feeble intermittent efforts to restore contact and rehumanize each other . |
| 17 | He could hear the siren , was vaguely conscious of a flickering blue light . |
| 18 | Gradually , as the breeze moved and eddied , I became conscious of a strange , soft sound that was filling the air . |
| 19 | Latin American lawyers are conscious of a strong regional tradition in private international law . |
| 20 | Ruth had no idea what he meant , but she felt pierced ; she remembered the cup in her pocket and was conscious of a need to fight through her fear , grip the cup , hand it to her father . |
| 21 | She was conscious of a strange emptiness inside her . |
| 22 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 23 | I was conscious of a kind of pause between beginnings and endings . |
| 24 | Only gradually did he become conscious of a commotion in the darkness beside him . |
| 25 | Tessa became conscious of a mottled red face gazing at her , and the right half of a short , bulky body wedged in the jamb of the door with one shabby braces strap visible . |
| 26 | Guiltily , Clare became conscious of a feeling of boredom . |
| 27 | At Van he was very conscious of a past greatness , when kings of Assyria ruled , fought and fell among these mountains ; he could visualize the palaces in which they lived and the queens who shared their beds , and he wrote : |
| 28 | ‘ Which will just have to remain a necessity , ’ she advised him tightly , conscious of a sudden increase in the perpetual tension between them . |
| 29 | At the same time he was conscious of a deep and mysterious horror deep inside him . |
| 30 | But he was conscious of a presence in the room . ’ |