Example sentences of "[noun] aware that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that during the past 25 years successive Governments have never quite got it right on training , which is so essential to our future prosperity ?
2 Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that in 1983 unemployment in my Leicestershire , North-West constituency was 14 per cent .
3 Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ?
4 Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in East Sussex , where the Conservatives control the county council , there is exactly the same problem because the Conservatives want to close seven old people 's homes ?
5 Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in Leicester almost a third of all women workers and almost 20 per cent .
6 Is my hon. Friend aware that without fresh primary legislation it is possible to require owners of green belt land to ensure that it is maintained properly and not just left undeveloped ?
7 Is my right hon. Friend aware that during a recent visit I made to Albania on behalf of the Council of Europe , politicians of all parties expressed a keen interest in receiving British know-how , but were disappointed that we have yet to establish a British embassy in Tirane ?
8 Is my hon. Friend aware that with the help and advice of the income generation unit , a business man in my constituency has successfully installed private telephones in hospitals in the north-east , paid for by advertising ?
9 Is my hon. Friend aware that since 1980 , 10,075 council tenants in Wolverhampton have become the proud owners of their council houses ?
10 Is my hon. Friend aware that despite the success of local management of schools , staff are still very worried that experienced older teachers who qualify for the higher salary scales will be discarded in favour of less experienced younger staff ?
11 Is my hon. Friend aware that in many local education authorities , not least in London , it is a prerequisite for a discretionary award that a student lives for at least three years within the borough concerned ?
12 Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Portsmouth , which is connected to the continent by the finest ferry services in the country , there is a growing realisation that success at Maastricht is crucial to trade and investment , on which jobs depend , and that the main prize to be achieved is an agreement which recognises the importance of closer co-operation between European nations rather than moves towards inevitable integration ?
13 Is my right hon. Friend aware that in my constituency Labour-controlled Hammersmith and Fulham council keeps many of its council houses and flats empty ?
14 Is my right hon. Friend aware that in some classes of cases , retribution and deterrence are never satisfactory ?
15 Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ?
16 Is my right hon. Friend aware that in a recent opinion poll only 8 per cent .
17 Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ?
18 Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Ayrshire we are extremely proud of the new hospital which was built from start to finish within five years , a record for anywhere in the country ?
19 Is the Secretary of State aware that in London there is a majority in favour of Labour 's proposal to set up an elected police authority for the Greater London area ?
20 Erm should the erm that , given that er , sorry , that the er , er O P C S in fact erm er after every census makes er guesses about its accuracy erm would erm the spokesman , is the spokesman aware that in fact O P C S has said that a fair erm representation of the intercensal increase in population in Leicestershire er between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety one is in fact fifteen thousand people and does n't he feel that to provide for fifty three thousand in the structure plan is a little over the top ?
21 Is the Minister aware that since 1988 in the city of Liverpool there has been a 48 per cent .
22 Is the Prime Minister aware that since 1979 the crime figures in England and Wales have gone up by 102 per cent. , that in the north of England they have gone up by 123 per cent .
23 Is the Prime Minister aware that under the 1951 United Nations convention on refugees , to which this country is a signatory , all Governments are obliged to provide asylum to those fleeing from serious human rights violations ?
24 Is the Minister aware that at Leeds university top-quality alpha-grade research in technical and scientific subjects can no longer be funded ?
25 Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ?
26 Is the Minister aware that for once — perhaps surprisingly — the House is united in welcoming the agreement and in congratulating all those involved , including the FMFLN for their part in the peace process ?
27 Is the Minister aware that over the past year some Scottish health boards have issued letters to general practitioners instructing them to refer only urgent cases for essential treatments such as physiotherapy and to hold the rest on file ?
28 Is the Prime Minister aware that in the past 12 months , because of his policies , 768,000 people have lost their jobs , 100,000 people have lost their homes and 45,000 companies have gone bankrupt ?
29 Is the Prime Minister aware that in south Derbyshire , having seen off Arthur Scargill , we have a vigorous , successful engineering industry , a high level of exports and a young and growing work force with a low level of unemployment ?
30 Is the Minister aware that in addition to the 5,700 empty council-owned properties , there are a further 7,000 empty properties in the private sector , bringing to over 12,000 the number of empty properties in the city of Liverpool ?
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