Example sentences of "were aware [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 STC IDEC LIMITED has an open management style and , as a result , most employees were aware that a consolidation of activities was going to take place but that there were no suitable local premises which the company could take over .
2 The overwhelming vote in favour showed that deputies were weary of the arguments which had raged since May , and were aware that a decision was needed urgently if the country was to stand a chance of warding off imminent economic collapse .
3 The Royal Commission survey showed that a number of people were aware that a solicitor could help , but , for a variety of reasons , failed to approach one .
4 Moreover , ministers were aware that the Government 's own actions had contributed to the recession .
5 Though the authorities do not seem to have been aware of the scale and significance of capital flows within the sterling area , they were aware that the exchange controls in that area were not all that London hoped .
6 All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty .
7 As we have seen , the first Christians were aware that the Spirit of the Messiah had come to indwell them .
8 See , we 'd given away all our oil , so we did n't need any barrels , and they were aware that the oil was a storage problem .
9 Many children had a partial understanding of the process of evaporation and were aware that the decrease in water level was in some way connected to the sun and heat .
10 We were aware that the reception tank was undermaintained but not , we thought , dangerously so .
11 One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk .
12 In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth .
13 The Dogon were aware that the planet Saturn had rings and that the planet Jupiter had four moons , which are pieces of information that can not be obtained without the use of a telescope — an artefact the Dogon have yet to discover .
  Next page