Example sentences of "waking up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here every delegate vote counts equally , and they are increasingly waking up to the power of the voting card . |
| 2 | The Arts : Waking up to the terrors of the night TELEVISION |
| 3 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
| 4 | Waking Up To Your Inner World |
| 5 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 6 | But whatever the motive , international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business . |
| 7 | People are now waking up to the fact that the natural world is our primary source and has got to be conserved if man is to continue . |
| 8 | In the early morning , waking up to a fierce easterly wind and a leaden sea , the children gathered in the dining room to find snow fluttering through the rafters and piling up over the breakfast plates . |
| 9 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 11 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 12 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 13 | Now America is the hottest market ; institutions that find Wall Street overvalued are waking up to the attraction of overseas investment . |
| 14 | WAKING up to the rhythms of marimba music on the radio seems a pleasant enough thought . |
| 15 | With another pathetic lady waking up to her lot . |
| 16 | Amidst all this shaking and trembling , respectable opinion was also waking up to the fact that new forms of life and organisation had emerged among the working class — both in a political , cultural and material sense . |
| 17 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 18 | Although he was clearly a grand gentleman — and she could sense the larger houses up and down the valley waking up to his presence like hunting dogs suddenly scenting a stag on the wind — his consideration for her — in one or two trivial matters — was nearer to the sort of decent , friendly understandings she herself had grown up with in the village . |
| 19 | Waking up to that penetrating ice-blue gaze was enough to throw anyone off balance for the rest of the day . |
| 20 | Like Cry Freedom , A Dry White Season shows a comfortable white middle-aged man gradually waking up to the vicious inhumanity of the apartheid system . |
| 21 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 22 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 23 | THE Marquess of Blandford was today waking up to his first full day in London 's Pentonville Prison , facing all but nine hours of it ‘ banged up ’ . |
| 24 | Similarly , some investors put environmental concerns uppermost on their list while others are only just waking up to green concerns . |
| 25 | Mm , oh , aye look at that oh can you imagine waking up to that , well probably wake up blind |