Example sentences of "[was/were] aware that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What the public would like to know is whether the Opposition , including the hon. Member for Cunninghame , North and the Front-Bench spokesman , the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) , were aware that that document was not a genuine document , but was something prepared , no doubt , for political purposes .
2 We awaited their arrival with much curiosity , and on the morning of March 23rd 1944 , as I cycled up the hill to work , the new aircraft started to arrive , ‘ beating up ’ the airfield to make sure we were aware that 105 Squadron was here .
3 During the Second World War , there were cases when the morale of even veteran British Guardsmen suffered if , in the course of an action , they were aware that surgical attention might not be forthcoming for at least five hours .
4 He was aware that this description did not fit Ramsey .
5 But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me .
6 She was aware that this process exposed first her buttocks and then her breasts , fleetingly , to Crowe , who had seen them and more than seen them , already , but not in circumstances either of them , she took it , cared to remember .
7 Similarly , in taking a feminist perspective in her youth work , Jenny Ball was aware that considerable care needed to be exercised so that neither the work nor her position became vulnerable .
8 From its founding in 1945 , the Commissariat à L'Energie Atomique was aware that nuclear power could be a means to energy independence for France .
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