Example sentences of "realize [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 2 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 3 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 4 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 5 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 6 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 7 | B before I became a councillor I did n't really realize about the three tiers of local democracy . |
| 8 | If if if if you were wanting to buy erm buy a house if you were moving house , and I did n't realize until the other day that ninety percent of people who buy and sell houses are moving within their own area . |
| 9 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 10 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 11 | The holding-period yield ( sometimes called the reinvestment yield ) is the average yield realized during the holding period , taking into account changes in the rollover rate ( the interest rate at which coupon payments can be reinvested ) . |
| 12 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 13 | Chesarynth sensed it and realized for the first time that what she was hearing was nothing but verbally-trimmed ideas . |
| 14 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 15 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 16 | Experience was quickly to show that these conditions were not forthcoming ; neither have they been realized throughout the post-war period . |
| 17 | Lenin 's vision of socialism and communism has failed to be realized in the Soviet Union in two fundamental ways . |
| 18 | Yet when this principle is realized in the literal terms of premonitions and mental telepathy , he baulks and feels that he must be going mad . |
| 19 | This had indeed been one of the aims of the scientific societies of the seventeenth century , such as the Royal Society ; and it was best realized in the superb plates in the Encyclopèdie of Diderot and d'Alembert which show French manufactures in the middle of the eighteenth century , before the industrial revolution changed techniques . |
| 20 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In the undoubted progress realized in the eighteenth century ’ , writes Vilar , ‘ was implicit a relationship between the various regions of the Peninsula quite distinct from that of the siglo de oro . |
| 22 | The crucial question that arises here , therefore , is how the given categories of grammar which constitute the content units of a structural syllabus are to be associated with the new categories of communicative function : in other words , how ( to use Halliday 's terms this time ) the meaning potential intrinsic in language form gets realized in the pragmatic achievement of meaning . |
| 23 | It is clear despite this that not enough is being done , and the seriousness of the position is still not fully realized by the average person . |
| 24 | One of the main differences between the Hallidayan and other approaches is that Halliday has always insisted that , at least in English , the theme-rheme distinction is realized by the sequential ordering of clause elements . |
| 25 | Maggie glanced at Laura , realizing for the first time in her life that she was stronger than her sister . |
| 26 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 27 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 28 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 29 | I understand erm Mr because you realize in the short time that wording has been in the brochure , that it would not be possible to keep the management charges at the level of inflation or below it |