Example sentences of "are conscious of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outcomes are uncertain , games of chance can be rigged — but this is not what we are conscious of in reading about Ursula . |
| 2 | We are conscious of what Zuckerman does for Roth : when he helps a man to gather his spilt heart pills , it is Roth helping himself by assigning a small mercy . |
| 3 | I think most actors are conscious of the need to keep in training . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is a common observation in experiments of this kind that subjects themselves often express confusion about what they are conscious of . |
| 5 | But at the same time the vast majority of the people find themselves to be a single nation and are conscious of resembling one another more than they resemble foreigners . |
| 6 | However , he went on to warn against complacency , as although most large companies are conscious of their health and safety responsibilities , an increase in the number of small companies and contractors may cause a corresponding increase in accident figures . |
| 7 | ‘ It is they who are most exploited and they are conscious of this . |
| 8 | All schools market themselves whether they are conscious of it or not . |
| 9 | We call it will power , and are conscious of it within ourselves . |
| 10 | Although we acknowledge that the National Curriculum is presented in a conservative context , and probably has to be couched in conventional terms , we are conscious of its lack of a ‘ qualitative thrust ’ , its inability to cater for all we want to offer all our students . |
| 11 | But while the public library is fulfilling this immediate need , they are conscious of the long-term information needs of schoolchildren who will eventually require public library services as adults , and are conscious of the necessity of promoting the public library as a resource in its own right . |
| 12 | But while the public library is fulfilling this immediate need , they are conscious of the long-term information needs of schoolchildren who will eventually require public library services as adults , and are conscious of the necessity of promoting the public library as a resource in its own right . |
| 13 | Only students of history are conscious of the fact that the Covenanting times lasted for over half a century and that before the end of the period some of the skirmishes were between factions , supposedly on the same side in the conflict . |
| 14 | This is also communication , and it affects others , too , automatically , whether we or they are conscious of it or not . |
| 15 | The community-centre members are conscious of the need for good relationships with their neighbours , and have bent over backwards to accommodate Muriel . |
| 16 | So , ‘ the distinctive feature of Christian piety lies in the fact that whatever alienation from God there is in the phases of our experience , we are conscious of it as an action originating in ourselves , which we call Sin ; but whatever fellowship with God there is , we are conscious of it as resting upon a communication from the Redeemer , which we call Grace ’ . |
| 17 | So , ‘ the distinctive feature of Christian piety lies in the fact that whatever alienation from God there is in the phases of our experience , we are conscious of it as an action originating in ourselves , which we call Sin ; but whatever fellowship with God there is , we are conscious of it as resting upon a communication from the Redeemer , which we call Grace ’ . |
| 18 | The last view is suggested by his claims that we are conscious of some memories ( those brought to INTROSPECTION in the ‘ control box ’ for example ) and some of the commands to say things ( as in deliberately saying something , as distinct from finding ourselves saying it ) , which would be messages from the ‘ control box ’ to PR ( the ‘ public relations box ’ , by analogy with the White House public relations chief , who is simply handed a piece of paper telling him what to say , but not to think about ) . |
| 19 | Whatever the heady consequences of that ( and they have classically been found contradictory ) , Sloman 's explication does not tackle the question of why it is we are conscious of certain things at some times but not at others . |
| 20 | Most groups say that their patients are not conscious of the stimuli but some have reported that their patients are conscious of them ( Barbur et al. |
| 21 | When Benedick mocks love he does so in prose , naturally enough ( Much Ado , II.iii.6–36 ) , but as he overhears Don Pedro , Claudio , and Balthasar in verse , beginning the plot against him , we are conscious of the gap between mockery and romance . |
| 22 | Hegel , however , argues that we can not be fully aware of ourselves , as selves , unless we are conscious of other people . |
| 23 | Latin American lawyers are conscious of a strong regional tradition in private international law . |
| 24 | We are vulnerable , like everyone else , to prejudice , and are conscious of how much havoc bigotry , the excesses of blind faith , and the tyranny which often accompanies it , can inflict on the world . |
| 25 | Most builders are conscious of the value of old fireplaces , bricks , chimney pots and doors that are in reasonably good condition . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there . |
| 27 | Ultimately it has to be asked whether able-bodied professionals , notwithstanding their good intentions , prepare young disabled people for life as disabled adults who are conscious of their identity as disabled people and of the struggle for full participative citizenship within our society . |
| 28 | You will not be at ease speaking in court if you are conscious of defects in this respect . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Father God , We are conscious of many tensions within our own society , particularly at this time of recession and high unemployment . |